Celebrities/people all over the world are joining in to raise their voice on #BlackLivesMatter trend. Actress and entrepreneur Enhle Mbali also joined in the campaign to raise her voice on the trending issue but got lots of backslash over the ‘blackface’ image shared.
She posted a thought-provoking caption with the picture‚ encouraging woman to embrace their skin colour. She wrote:
“Black lives matter in all shades!! When the color of the berry matters not ‚ but how sweet it is does. THAT WILL BE THE DAY LOVE WINS #NaChocolate #GhanaWecare #AfricaWecare #AmericaWecare #Worldwecare #weAreOne #filtersforAllkindsOfBrown. When we love ourselves enough to start bleaching browner‚ when our love for us gets black lives to matter even more. When? TODAY‚ she wrote.
But her post was met with lots of criticism from her followers‚ many of them sharing their disapproval of Enhle’s decision to make herself appear darker in the shared video, in which was tagged as ‘disrespectful’and ‘inappropriate’
“WHY? This is so inappropriate.Your caption would have been so much more impact if you had just posted a picture with your own skin tone. This just stripped your post of all it was meant to,” one fan commented.
Another asked her to delete her “dumb” post.
“And honestly it was never about the dark black people. It’s not like light skinned blacks weren’t part of the black lives matter movement…we love you mbali but this was a dumb move. Or we don’t understand?? You’re yellow bone and you’re BLACK.”
Due to the harsh criticism, Enhle was forced to defend her post.
She asked her followers to rather focus on the message not the shade.
“I’m happy it invoked some emotional impact. I hope the true essence of this message and everything in the picture when analysed further than the color of the woman’s (me) has come across. Your reaction is my point. We care so much about skin “berry” that forget its essence “sweetness ” . We love yellow bones forgetting, chocolate caramel and vanilla have the same Essenes !! All lives matter no mater where in the hues of the color wheel they are!! Imagine the day we all get that right… We will stop being offended with trivial things and deal with real issues. Mmmm. Once again sorry my interpretation in the matter offended you. Hope this helps u better understand. all love,”