South African Fights Back After Black Americans Boycott Tyla After EP Release
- A man from the UK dived deeper into the issue that Black Americans have with the South African songstress Tyla
- The content creator pointed out that the attacks on the musician were mainly xenophobic after he watched a series of videos
- South Africans fought back when news of Tyla being disrespectful towards the American people broke out last week
Tyla became the talk of the town after her recent EP performed poorly in its first week, selling 3.7K copies.
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Black Americans saw this as an opportunity to bash the Water singer in a series of TikTok videos. They claimed that Tyla had flopped based on an interview where she explained her ethnicity.
South Africans chimed in after multiple attacks on the singer since last week. A content creator from the UK also explained where the hate originated.
SA fights back after Americans attack Tyla on social media
Black Americans were excited to highlight the “failure” of Tyla’s recent EP, We Wanna Party, after it sold under 4K copies in its first week. Trolls created a series of TikTok videos ridiculing the South African singer.
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Black Americans led the hate train and referenced their hate to an old interview where Tyla explained that she was a coloured South African. People in America are either black, white, or mixed race.
People are not referred to as coloured because it was a racial descriptor in the Jim Crow era. Black Americans thought Tyla was being disrespectful after claiming to be a coloured woman.
The singer is multiracial with an ancestry that includes Indian, Indo-Mauritian, Zulu, and Irish roots. A UK content creator, Jamaal Burkmar, pointed out that the hate towards Tyla was xenophobic and had nothing to do with her talent.
South Africans also defended the star in a thread of comments on the creator’s now-viral TikTok video.
Watch the TikTok video below:
SA defends Tyla from social media trolls amid EP sales backlash
South Africans responded to the trending Tyla backlash over the sales of her recent EP:
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@shlam🍉 wrote:
“America will do everything but learn about other countries and gain empathy.”
@mandimseleku pointed out:
“They didn't have this energy for Trevor Noah, who proudly calls himself coloured in America and has explained why. They just hate Tyla because she's unapologetically herself and is not pandering to them.”
@Mandisa Charmain Gaba explained:
“The American meaning of a word is not universal. As South Africans, we know exactly what coloured means.”
@𝐘𝐀𝐖✨🇬🇭🇵🇸 emphasised:
“But she is a Coloured South African.”
@faraja 🐘 shared:
“I'm genuinely confused. What is the disrespect that she displayed to black American people?”
@Main Lad explained
“As a South African Coloured myself, I have to say the way Americans are coming for Tyla is loud, wrong, and ethnocentric. In South Africa, Coloureds are a real ethnic group with their own culture and history, and NOT the Jim Crow insult Americans think it is. Instead of taking 30 secs to Google the meaning, y’all just decided your version of Blackness is the universal law. Newsflash: the world does not revolve around US racial politics. Tyla did not disrespect anyone. She just exists outside your bubble. Stay mad, I guess.”
@kelsey nicole sighed:
“So being coloured is disrespectful now? Let this girl rest, damn.”
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