Over the weekend, Kanye West pissed a load of people off, as per, when he tweeted an open casting call for his most recent Yeezy collection. The reason people were miffed is because he requested “multiracial women only”.

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Quite rightly, this sparked an uproar due to the discriminative and ill-informed requirements of the audition. Of course, some people will outline that he is at least not just looking for white people, but on the other end of the debate, protestors were fuming that he is only interested in light-skinned women of colour.

As a result, protestors gathered to call out the ‘rapper” for his discriminative choices. One in particular got noticed as she decided to attend the protest topless, with a sign that called out Kanye for a 2006 interview where he called mixed race women “mutts”. She explained why she attended topless:

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This is an indictment of not just Yeezy but the entire fashion and beauty industry in which there is a racialised hierarchy of beauty which is a ubiquitous symptom of the legacy of colonialism. This is a protest of a pervasive and dangerously toxic Ideology not Individuals.

Regardless of whether Yeezy does choose to include darkskinned women in the end, the coded language of the casting call was clear and a part of a broader problem of colourism in the fashion industry.

Fair play to her – she definitely got her point across. It’s definitely a bad move from Kanye there. That guy is definitely a few screws loose of a hardware store, but I didn’t expect racial discrimination from him quite yet.

To read about the time he got utterly rejected from IKEA, click HERE.