This after he posted a series of race-based role-reversal scenarios along with the caption: 'The flip... get to YouTube, this is what's going on in South Africa.'
American actor and singer Tyrese posted a video addressing comments over fake news about South Africa that he posted on his Instagram | Image: Instagram
“Listen, if anybody follows me on Instagram, y’all know, controversy doesn’t scare me, people in my comments, talking shit, going at me. Look, I’ve been doing this for a very long time… so none of that bothers me,” said Tyrese in his 30-minute video. According to Tyrese, he has a South African friend named Sipho Dlamini, whom he regularly speaks to about the American perception of Africa, which is predominantly jaded by content highlighting the continent’s animal population.
The actor shared how he had no idea what the origin of the images was but stated that he was inspired by the message in the images which depict and black man surrounded by his chained white slaves, a rich black woman with her child being reared by a white woman, a little white girl in a store surrounded by black dolls and white women doing Asian women’s nails in a salon.
Tyrese then claimed that he was accused of presenting a false narrative by making it seem as though the images were an actual representation of what’s going on in the country. According to Tyrese, he has seen those images in action now that black people are no longer excluded from the opportunity to amass wealth.He then explained his YouTube reference, citing a YouTube video he had seen which reportedly speaks about the poverty among certain white people in South Africa and juxtaposes it against the wealth of certain black Africans.
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