Beyoncé’s mother Tina Knowles angrily lashed out at online critics who accused her daughter of lightening her skin in an Instagram video posted on Tuesday.
Knowles, 69, responded after some social media commentators complained that the 42-year-old superstar appeared to have lighter skin and was also wearing a platinum blonde wig in a photo taken at the premiere of the Renaissance concert film.
Some had suggested the hitmaker was ‘white now’, while others complained that ‘she’s not a black woman!’
“I’m tired of people attacking her,” Knowles wrote in a lengthy caption on the video, denying commenters’ concerns.
She also compared her daughters’ outfits to styles worn by black entertainers dating back at least as far as Etta James.
Beyoncé’s mother Tina Knowles, 69, angrily lashed out at online critics who accused her daughter of lightening her skin in an Instagram video posted on Tuesday
Knowles responded after some social media commentators complained that the 42-year-old superstar appeared to have lighter skin and was also wearing a platinum blonde wig in a photo taken at the premiere of the Renaissance concert film.
“I came across this today and decided to post it after seeing the whole stupid, ignorant self, hating racist statements about hair, lightening her skin and wearing platinum hair that wanted to be white,” Knowles began her lengthy caption.
She explained that Beyoncé’s look was solely for her renaissance documentary, “where the whole theme is silver with silver hair, a silver carpet and silver clothes and you idiots decide she’s trying to be a white woman and bleaching her skin? ‘
“How sad it is that some of her own people continue the stupid story with hatred and jealousy,” she seethed. “Duh, she wore silver hair to match her silver dress as a fashion statement clown. ALIEN Superstar duh!’
Knowles was also upset that Beyoncé’s hairstylist Neal Farinah found out about the Break My Soul singer’s alleged desire “to be white.”
“Well, that made my blood boil,” she continued.
While she lashed out at someone she assumed was white, she also slammed black social media commenters who had accused her daughter of lightening her skin, calling them “bozos.”
“Lying and pretending and pretending to be so ignorant that you don’t understand that black women have had platinum hair since the time of Etta James,” she wrote. “I just started looking at all the beautiful, talented black celebrities who had platinum hair, and that’s pretty much everyone. Are they all trying to be white?’
Knowles added that she was “tired of people attacking her.”
“Every time she does something she is committed to, it is a statement of her work ethic, talent and resilience. Here are you sad little haters coming out of the woodwork,” she wrote.
She accused her daughter’s critics of perpetuating “jealousy and racism, sexism, double standards” instead of “celebrating a sister or just ignoring her if you don’t like her.”
“I’m tired of you losers,” she concluded, noting that the usually tight-lipped Beyoncé might not appreciate her mother speaking out on her behalf.
“I know she’ll be mad at me for doing this, but I’m tired of it!” she added. “This girl minds her own business. She helps people wherever she can. She supports and promotes Black women and underdogs at all times.”
She explained that Beyoncé’s look was solely for her renaissance documentary, “where the whole theme is silver with silver hair, a silver carpet and silver clothes and you idiots decide she’s trying to be a white woman and bleaching her skin? ‘