10 Oct Sick Photoshoppers Are Whitewashing Pictures Of Rihanna And The Internet Is Not Happy

If you’re a white (close-minded) person it is easy to assume that racism towards people of color is a thing of the past. These days, the majority of people are focused on fighting for the rights of the LGBTQ+ community, believing that racial equality has been achieved.

However, the assumption that racial equality has been accomplished is a dangerous one for white people to make. That is why it is important to shame those who believe that a person’s worth is in some way dependant on the color of their skin.

A disturbing trend emerged this summer on Twitter which involved users utilizing photoshop in order to whitewash some of the world’s biggest stars of color to prove that they would be more “beautiful” if they were white, and this included Rihanna.

Horrifyingly, “fans” of the Barbadian star shared whitewashed photographs of her accompanied by captions which reflected their views about beauty and skin color, making the racist claim that people of color aren’t as beautiful as those who are white.

Whilst this disturbing trend appears to be a recent one, it can be traced back to 2015 when Twitter user @alexgracious shared a whitewashed a photograph of Rhianna. The racist image received a disturbing amount of attention and was retweeted and favorited hundreds of times by users including @nellyry, who is bizarrely a woman of color herself.

It didn’t take long for the photograph to come to the attention of Rihanna herself, and she blocked its creator @alexgracious. Rihanna also made a point of blocking other users who had jumped on the whitewashing bandwagon.

Shockingly, they failed to understand what they had done wrong…

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