Their statement failed to resonate with Instagram commenters who said the folklore ofis one that is best left in the past as it stigmatises dark skin by associating it with black magic and ugliness.
“Use the chance to rewrite the narrative to address the issues in our society of how dark skin is often seen as a curse or undesirable, actually make it a commentary of the colourist and racist incidents in Malaysia. In one Instagram Story, Wani appears in blackface while repeatedly asking her companions “Am I pretty?” and lamenting that the camera filter had failed to recognise her features because her skin was “too dark.”to be halted has garnered 23,900 signatures as of Monday afternoon.
White actors would paint their faces black to mock African Americans while depicting racist tropes that showed black people as lazy, uneducated, superstitious, villainous, and hypersexual.