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Black Twitter Calls Out Pearl Thusi For Claiming She Lost Jobs Because She\u2019s Not Black Enough! Pearl Thusi has received some backlash on social media after revealing that she has lost some work because she wasn\u2019t \u2018dark enough\u2019. Speaking at the Next 100 Summit in Johannesburg on Thursday, Pearl said she felt held back by her own people because there\u2019s so much competition and people want to succeed individually instead of as a collective.<\/p>\n \u201cI lost a role \u2019cause I wasn\u2019t black enough on Long Walk to Freedom, a<\/i>\u00a0very small role. I had it, and then two weeks before shooting I wasn\u2019t dark enough. Uhm\u2026 I found out for a different role that I wasn\u2019t dark enough for that too, so I wasn\u2019t black enough.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd, you know, those type of things hurt when you identify with being a black woman. If we work together as black women regardless of your shade, we can move forward much faster and a lot more powerfully,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n Black twitter did not sympathize with Thusi, instead they called her out for not seeing her privilege. Others felt Pearl\u2019s rising career has been because she is light skinned (the industry\u2019s acceptable version of black).<\/p>\n Pearl Thusi complaining about how colorism affects her career yet she is light skinned is like me complaining about homophobia is affecting my daily life yet I am a heterosexual man???<\/p>\n \u2014 Yamkela (@YamkelaVenfolo) November 30, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Y\u2019all seriously thought Pearl Thusi, a light-skinned and conventionally attractive biracial woman with a loose curl pattern, was the right person to speak about colorism? https:\/\/t.co\/1uHqM7frqW<\/p>\n \u2014 Calpurnia (@JUST_KWANDA) November 29, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The problem with Pearl Thusi is she can only see the one job she lost coz of her color. But she doesn\u2019t see the plenty of jobs she got because of her light skin that darkskinned womxn probably lost. I could name various historical instances of colorism against darkskinned people.<\/p>\n \u2014 Princess Morbucks (@CharmaineGalore) November 29, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n Pearl Thusi\u2019s whole aesthetic is being lightskin and \u201chaving good hair for a black person\u201d<\/p>\n pshht, anything she says about colorism is redundant.<\/p>\n \u2014 LT (@BABYUQl) November 29, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Someone please tell Pearl Thusi that\u2019s not how colorism works. Literally our tv Screens are full of Lightskin girls like that\u2019s the measure of beauty for black women. She continues to benefit from her Lightskin if she was darker with 4d Hair type she wouldn\u2019t have made it<\/p>\n \u2014 Vhugala Jamila Khan (@NaVhugala) November 29, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Pearl Thusi sounds like white People complaining about reverse racism. Like guys we all know in the black community that Colorism is a thing and Lightskin people get certain privileges<\/p>\n \u2014 Vhugala Jamila Khan (@NaVhugala) November 29, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Pearl Thusi\u2019s light skinned chat is similar to skinny people complaining about how they don\u2019t find clothes in stores either, honestly stfu, acknowledge your privilege and sit down.<\/p>\n \u2014 Sunrays & stuff (@_Kholekam) November 29, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Pearl Thusi has been crying about being a yellowbone for approximately 10 years. I\u2019m at a stage now where I let her do her thing.<\/p>\n \u2014 Mandela\u2019s Global Citizen (@aNameToCarry) November 29, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n pearl thusi just doesn\u2019t have the range for meaningful debate.<\/p>\n \u2014 Mama Piano (@LebohangMosia_) November 29, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n <\/p><\/div>\n
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