Azealia Banks Writes on Mental Health & Responds to Zayn Comments
This week has not been good for Azealia Banks. After going after Zayn Malik on Twitter calling him racial slurs, Banks was suspended from the site. Following that social media disaster, Rinse FM proceeded to cancel her show at the U.K. festival Born & Bred.
Since her Twitter ban, Banks has gone to Instagram to air her grievances. She expressed her feelings in a brief essay where she spoke about mental health and clarified her comments aimed at Zayn. She wrote:
“I'm not blaming anyone or anything for any of my actions but I think it's really important to for people outside of us (black folk) to understand the detrimental effects of whiteness and white supremacy/white cultural pervasiveness on black peoples MENTAL HEALTH as a whole and the MENTAL HEALTH of black individual herself."
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