Just like killer bees that attack in groups and sting a victim for over a whole mile — Kenyans on Twitter are best known for notorious cyberbullying and consecutive stinging.
Recently, the KOT Baraza troops harshly responded to Online Comedian Elsa Majimbo’s claims which imply that Kenyan’s lack of support and love towards her stems from her naturally melanated skin color.
While speaking during an interview with renowned comedian Naomi Campbell, the 19-year-old entertainer said that Kenyans “have brought her down the most” over her looks which to some extent invalidates her success rate in the comedy industry.
In another segment of the interview dubbed “No Filter With Naomi” Majimbo mentioned that despite Kenyan being her native country that she considers home, its people have intentionally brought her down the most by not showing support as she expected.
Her shocking revelations also hinted that there is extreme colourism in the country which her deprived her opportunities to thrive because she is dark-skinned.
“Here, it’s a place where there is a lot of colourism. Lighter skin people are given more opportunities and are made to feel like they can succeed more. It happens all the time and I was made to feel just because I was darker, I was maybe less pretty, I had fewer chances of succeeding,” she said.
Watch @NaomiCampbell and I on #NoFilterWithNaomi ♥️ where I spoke about my journey pic.twitter.com/9u5ROKTV4x
— Elsa Majimbo 🇿🇦 (@ElsaAngel19) December 22, 2020
Following the detailed interview , Kenyas on Twitter have responded with a a few supporting Elsa’s allegations while another section called her out.
Below are some of the comments
COMMENTS:
“Elsa Majimbo said to Naomi Campbell that we Kenyans didn’t lay her path to the top because she is a woman of color.Kenya?A predominantly black country?How will we hate dark skin when our own skin is dark?Make it make sense Elsa.” One user identified as Lunar wrote.
@Lunar_OMI: Elsa was expecting kenyans to lay her path to the top??? Omo!! We can barely afford life at this point and she wants people to lay her path. Maiye!!
@Rodgers_Ochi: There are shades of black. In Kenya darker you are, the harsher the experience!
@osoroKE: Abomination! Here’s the video of Elsa Majimbo making baseless accusations against us
@brijooo0: She’s not wrong though, y’all hyping up these lighter girls like they’re mini gods
@brendawambui: Kenyans on Twitter, who spend almost every day of their pathetic online lives denigrating and trolling dark skinned women (as well as fat women, those they don’t consider beautiful, those they find “too beautiful” etc) want to claim they aren’t colourist, moreso to Elsa?
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