DaniLeigh took to Instagram to address the controversy surrounding her new song "Yellow Bone," which has sparked conversation about colorism.
During her apology, DaniLeigh stated, "I think people twisted it into thinking, like, I'm trying to bash another woman, another skin tone, that was never my intention. I wasn't brought up like that, I never looked at my skin as a privilege. I never looked at me as 'I'm better than somebody because of my skin tone.'"
She added, "I see brown skin women flaunt their skin all the time in music, why can't I talk about mine? If you look at me, I'm light-skinned, I'm a yellow bone. In my opinion, that's just what I am. So, it wasn't something that I looked at so deeply. Which, I can see why people will take it deeply, so I understand and I'm sorry that I wasn’t sensitive to the topic when I wrote my comment 'why are you guys taking so personal?' Because, it can be a personal thing to certain people, because colorist is a real thing so I do get it. But I'm not that. I’m not a colorist. I’m not a racist. I date a whole chocolate man. I have beautiful dark-skinned friends."
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