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<p><strong>Amber Rose</strong> recently took a moment to address her critics, and she cleared the air as people accused her of &#8220;perpetual[ing] colorism&#8221; within the Black community.</p>
<h5 style="text-align: center;">RELATED: <a href="https://dev.theshaderoom.com/listicle/amber-rose-racial-identity-blackness-fight/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Amber Rose Addresses Comments On Racial Identity: &#8216;I Never Denounced My Blackness&#8217;</a></h5>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">She Owns Her Black &; White Identities: &#8220;Leave Me The F**k Alone About How I Look&#8221;</h3>
<p>The situation began after Amber shared a <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CuexuzQu82X/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&;igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video</a> of herself switchin&#8217; up her signature buzz cut in favor of donning long blonde hair, which The Shade Room reshared via Instagram on Sunday (Jul. 9).</p>
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<p>Once the post began to pick up steam, Amber Rose stepped into the comment section to call out people&#8217;s statements on her appearance.</p>
<p>Specifically, she addressed accusations that she was &#8220;perpetual[ing] colorism in the black community&#8221; due to her &#8220;genetics,&#8221; and she brushed them off by declaring, <em><strong>&#8220;I can&#8217;t help how I look [and] don&#8217;t try to be anything I&#8217;m not.&#8221;</strong></em></p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m BLACK and WHITE now leave me the f**k alone about how I look. I can&#8217;t crawl back in my mom&#8217;s p***y and come out darker to make you feel more comfortable with who I am.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Amber Rose added that, while she isn&#8217;t solely Black, she is <strong><em>&#8220;NOT no f**king white woman.&#8221;</em></strong> She also acknowledged that it&#8217;s &#8220;unfair&#8221; to Black women if she doesn&#8217;t own her biracial identity.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;I am NOT no f**king white woman stop playing with me. I&#8217;m not just a black woman either. It&#8217;s unfair to black women and their experiences for me to even say that.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
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<p>The 39-year-old further elaborated on this stance, noting that &#8220;the world does not treat [her]&#8221; like a Black woman.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;I can empathize with black women, but I am not a dark skinned or brown skinned black woman to sit here and be delusional and act like I know what that feels like. I don&#8217;t. The world does not treat me like that.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>She wrapped up by reiterating that her identifying as biracial has <em>nothing</em> to do with &#8220;denouncing [her] blackness.&#8221;</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;That is not me denouncing my blackness that is me saying that out of respect for the black woman&#8217;s experience, which I do not have as a fair skinned biracial person. I don’t understand why that is so hard to comprehend?&#8221;</p></blockquote>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">The Subject Sparked An Altercation Between Amber Rose &; Joseline Hernandez</h3>
<p>Speaking of Amber Rose and colorism, we have to point out that the matter recently came up during an on-screen altercation between the SlutWalk activist and <strong>Joseline Hernandez</strong> on <em>College Hill: Celebrity Edition</em>.</p>
<p>As The Shade Room previously reported, Amber attacked Joseline after Hernandez accused Rose of wanting to &#8220;<a href="https://twitter.com/TheShadeRoom/status/1666872467220987904?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">be a white girl</a>.&#8221; This statement came on the heels of Amber <a href="https://twitter.com/RealityCvnt/status/1664402063831474177?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declaring</a>, <em><strong>&#8220;I don’t fit in in white spaces, but I don’t fit in Black spaces either.&#8221;</strong></em></p>
<h5 style="text-align: center;">RELATED: <a href="https://dev.theshaderoom.com/listicle/amber-rose-joseline-hernandez-white-girl-college-hill/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Amber Rose Attacks Joseline Hernandez Over Accusations Of Wanting To Be A &#8216;White Girl&#8217;</a></h5>
<p>After the incident aired, Amber Rose shared her thoughts on the situation by acknowledging how fickle people can be when it comes to how biracial people should identify.</p>
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<p>Shortly thereafter, Rose offered further insight by calling the internet &#8220;remedial as f**k&#8221; and declaring, <a href="https://dev.theshaderoom.com/listicle/amber-rose-racial-identity-blackness-fight/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;I never denounced my Blackness.&#8221;</a></p>
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