White Victoria Secret Angels Face Backlash For Singing The N-Word

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The controversy of white people and non-black poc people saying the n-word continues to grow. They feel like they have the right or the need to chant the n-word from any of their favorite rap songs. Even famous people would do it sometimes, such as the Victoria Secret models.

On Tuesday, November 28, the pre-taped Victoria Secret Fashion Show aired on CBS, which had plenty of behind the scenes moments. Therefore, many of the models landed on social media the next day. One of the scene particularly shows a group of supermodels singing to Cardi B’s chart-topping hit, “Bodak Yellow.” They were freely singing and dancing to the song as they get ready for the show.

Here’s the video: https://twitter.com/VibeMagazine/status/935967058839375872

Some fans pointed out that St. Louis native and model Devon Windsor refrained from joining her VS sisters in saying the n-word.

This video was originally posted by a model named Camilla Rowe. She did not approve the models using that word, even if they were only singing it. She tweeted, “It’s not okay for anyone of color to say it, only black people can say it.”

The n-word comes from a part of history when many white people treated African American people terribly. They used that word to dehumanized them and made them inferior to the dominant white race.

The word symbolizes the horrific time period that is part of the United States history. No matter how you say it. If you say it with an ‘a’, instead or the ‘r’, you’re still using the word with the same meaning to it. The context of the word does not change at all. Therefore, people shouldn’t be allowed to say it.

Few African Americans don’t like using the n-word themselves. My best friend, Zariah Utsey, who is an African American doesn’t like using the n-word at all because of the historical context it has been used in the past.

“I don’t like people singing the n-word in a song because it glorifies that it’s a meaningless word than what it was actually used for, which was to discriminate my people and treat them horribly. I will never be fine with that word and I don’t want people to say it”, Utsey said.

I believe that the more non-blacks use the word, the more they are desensitizing it. They try to normalize the word and change the meaning it by attempting to make it less derogatory on how they say it.

As a woman of color, I wouldn’t like someone saying the word terrorist in a song. Like if I replace the n-word in Cardi B’s song and add “And I’m quick to cut a terrorist off so don’t get comfortable.”

I’d find it super offensive because that’s how some people actually look at my people. Some people associate Muslims with terrorist and it degrades Muslim people. Terrorist isn’t something cool to say around freely, exactly like the n-word.