{"id":34857,"date":"2024-06-14T09:51:20","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T09:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=34857"},"modified":"2024-06-14T09:51:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T09:51:20","slug":"ive-never-denied-my-blackness-tyla-addresses-claims-shes-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/06\/14\/ive-never-denied-my-blackness-tyla-addresses-claims-shes-white\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019ve Never Denied My Blackness\u2019 \u2013 Tyla Addresses Claims She\u2019s White"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Cynthia Abah<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"flex flex-grow flex-col max-w-full\">\n<div class=\"min-h-[20px] text-message flex flex-col items-start whitespace-pre-wrap break-words [.text-message+&amp;]:mt-5 juice:w-full juice:items-end overflow-x-auto gap-2\" dir=\"auto\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"7acc043c-91bb-4dae-b524-345d6dc80e9e\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 juice:empty:hidden juice:first:pt-[3px]\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose w-full break-words dark:prose-invert light\">\n<p>Grammy-winning South African singer Tyla has addressed claims questioning her racial identity, affirming that she is not white. Rival fans on social media had speculated that the 22-year-old singer is \u201cwhite\/Indian\u201d rather than black.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement shared on her X page Thursday night, Tyla clarified that she is mixed race with black\/Zulu, Irish, and Mauritian\/Indian ancestry. She explained that in her native South Africa, she would be classified as \u201cColoured,\u201d but outside her country, she would be recognized as a black woman.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018Water\u2019 hitmaker emphasized that she has never denied her blackness, stating, \u201cYoh guys, [I have] never denied my blackness, idk where that came from\u2026 I\u2019m mixed with black\/Zulu, Irish, Mauritian\/Indian, and Coloured.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added, \u201cIn Southa I would be classified as a Coloured woman and in other places, I would be classified as a black woman. Race is classified differently in different parts of the world. I don\u2019t expect to be identified as Coloured outside of Southa by anyone not comfortable doing so because I understand the weight of that word outside of SA. But to close this conversation, I\u2019m both Coloured in South Africa and a black woman.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Cynthia Abah Grammy-winning South African singer Tyla has addressed claims questioning her racial identity, affirming that she is not white. Rival fans on social media had speculated that the 22-year-old singer is \u201cwhite\/Indian\u201d rather than black. In a statement shared on her X page Thursday night, Tyla clarified that she is mixed race with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":34870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34871,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34857\/revisions\/34871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}