So as you can imagine when Tory Lanez was shooting a music video for his latest hit, the director, without thinking, asked a dark skin model to exit the set and he replaced her with a light skin model.
But Tory wasn't having it. He stopped the video shoot and asked the director why he had kicked off the darker lass. He then explained to the light skin model that while he has nothing against her, and while she is indeed beautiful, he preferred having the dark skin girl in that shot.
You can just see the look of confusion in the two ladies' faces as they were probably also familiar with this instance of colourism being the mainstay of entertainment and especially in hip-hop.
I should probably have started with the definition of colourism according to ;
Prejudice or discrimination against individuals with a dark skin tone, typically among people of the same ethnic or racial group.
Tory Lanez addressed how the incident unfolded as follows:
This is an On -Going problem in our community of entertainment that needs to stop . As a black man , Sometimes I’m going to joke about the black community just like we all do . BUT WHAT IM NOT GOING TO DO IS ALLOW ANY OF THESE DIRECTORS TO DE-VALUE OUR BLACK WOMEN ... countless times I’ve seen directors swap out our women of color for women of lighter complexion, or women with straighter hair ETC . ... IT IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY AS ARTIST TO STAND UP AND NOT LET THIS HAPPEN .. it’s BEEN time to embrace our woman of color
You can watch the video of how the entire incident unfolded below:
https://www.instagram.com/p/Byxh8_aA2Vg/
