London Twitter user gets dragged for questioning Tamaryn Green’s ethnicity

An ignorant tweet from a Twitter user believed to be based in London has sparked a conversation about what an “indigenous” South African looks like.

The furore began when Twitter user @hannah_erinma asked: “Does this look like an indigenous South African woman to any of you? LOL” in response to another account praising her beauty.

https://twitter.com/hannah_erinma/status/1075456157211377664

Another user then insinuated that South Africans have an obsession with people who look anything but South African.

https://twitter.com/hannah_erinma/status/1075471947981565954

The conversation sparked outrage, especially among coloured Twitter users who entered into a debate with @hannah_erinma about South Africans of coloured, Cape Malay, and Khoisan descent.

She's even defending her view I'm shook at her ignorance and audacity. Wow. It's strange bcz African Americans also have such a mixed heritage so pic.twitter.com/hqjN9nHJNt

— Na$tYwOrLd (@isuwarrior) December 20, 2018

And essentially that is what Colored people are: Creole.

— Jamil F. Khan (@JamilFarouk) December 20, 2018

it also shows how they view Africans and Africa (the deep, dark Africa stereotype. And how only dark skin black people can exist in Africa or are deemed "African enough")

— Na$tYwOrLd (@isuwarrior) December 20, 2018

LMIMP IM BREEKING, TAMARYN IS THE MOST COLOURED LOOKING CAPETONIAN I HAVE EVER SEEN BECOME MISS SA.
YURRE SHE AND AMY. WHOOO IM BREEKING PLS

— Ling Dior (@LingDeeYoh) December 20, 2018

Despite many attempts from South Africans looking to educate her, @hannah_erinma refuses to see reason and is convinced that Green and those like her are not what “indigenous” South Africans look like.

https://twitter.com/hannah_erinma/status/1075718810815119363

https://twitter.com/hannah_erinma/status/1075494733550628865

https://twitter.com/hannah_erinma/status/1075729736498905089

https://twitter.com/hannah_erinma/status/1075735974020304896

https://twitter.com/MovesLikeDragan/status/1075734692845023232

You need to sit your ass down. As a South African I can tell you thats what a South African looks like but your head is so far up your ass your opinions are based on the shit your closed mind can only see

— رضوان  (@rid1kader) December 20, 2018

If you'd actually bother to Google Indigenous people of South Africa the Khoi (light of skin) were the 1st people to inhabit south Africa, long before Xhosa. So please sit down and shut up. Your ignorance is giving proper Africans (the 1's who were born and bread here) a headache

— Potz (@_Potz_) December 20, 2018

https://twitter.com/hannah_erinma/status/1075743700972638208

https://twitter.com/hannah_erinma/status/1075728688950456320

Green has yet to respond to the debate.

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