Amber Rose Defends ‘African Queen’ Post After Backlash
Amber Rose is responding to backlash over an Instagram post in which she referred to herself and “Baddies” star Natalie Nunn as “African Queens.”
The model and media personality, who is of Cape Verdean, Irish, and Italian descent, posted the caption alongside a photo of herself and Nunn while the pair were reportedly in Nairobi, Kenya, on a philanthropic trip with Zeus Network CEO Lemuel Plummer.
However, the term didn’t sit well with some social media users, who questioned the validity of the title given the stars’ mixed-race heritage.
Now back from the trip, Rose doubled down on her comment in a fiery message posted by The Shade Room on Friday (May 9). “Kiss my a—,” she said bluntly. “We’re all African queens. We all come from Africa. All the homosapiens in the world come from Africa.”
She went on to say that it’s “one hundred percent” okay for white people to use the term, too, arguing that “people need to get out of their feelings.”
Dismissing claims that her statement was culturally insensitive, Rose added, “African people love me. I've been over there plenty of times. They don't talk about race like they do over here in America.”
She continued, “If you're a good person over there, that's all they care about. I mean, to the places that I've been—I can't speak for every country in Africa. But everywhere I've been, as soon as you get off the airplane, they say, ‘Welcome home.’”
However, while the reality star attempted to reframe the conversation through a Pan-African lens, critics quickly pushed back.
One online user summed up the sentiment shared by many: “I love her selective ‘melanation’ when it benefits her to add proximity. Nah, keep the same distance you put during your TrumpRide for YT supremacy.”
The reality star’s latest response seems to have only reignited conversations about how she approaches racial identity, cultural proximity, and privilege, especially when claiming ties to African heritage.
