Black NFL player and white fiancée toast to 'more light-skinned kids' in Instagram video
NFL player Jahleel Addae, who plays safety for the Los Angeles Chargers, and his fiancée, Lindsey Nelson, made a toast to “more light-skinned kids” and now their Instagram accounts are private, allegedly to circumvent the damage.
Nelson shared the toast between friends, filmed at a restaurant, on her Instagram Stories. “Cheers to more light-skinned kids,” one of the men says. His mantra is repeated by the group as they clink their glasses. Addae sits at the table holding the couple’s 1-year-old, Zion.
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Management for Addae did not respond to Yahoo Lifestyle’s interview request.
Yahoo Lifestyle also reached out to one of two people who is tagged in Nelson’s video. The other person, along with Addae and Nelson, have made their Instagram accounts private.
There were denunciations of colorism and opportunism on Instagram and Twitter. In 1982, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker defined the term as “prejudicial or preferential treatment of same-race people based solely on their color,” according to the Los Angeles Times.
I don't have problem with you having a white wife if that is who you love. But when you allow that white wife to disgrace you #JahleelAddae your Mother, sisters and future daughters, then you sir have truly forgotten who's shoulders you stand on and where you are from #GetOut SAD
— Everything Bae Likes (@1SummerStorm) February 10, 2019
Jahleel Addae is a prime example of how anti-black Black men can be towards Black women. That entire table full of Dark skin Black men with white women "here's to more light skin babies" they want to erase Dark skin Black people. This is why the topic of colorism is important.
— Jason (7 Oscar nominee Black Panther 78+ awards) (@EscaflowneClown) February 10, 2019
I really haven’t got no words man…😞😏you know when your heart jus sinks
— shafia (@Brownin2211) February 10, 2019
NFL player #JahleelAddae & his fiancé #LindseyNelson got caught making a toast to “more light skinned children”
“Dear white women, you aren’t winning if a black man loves you simply because he hates himself”
— r. (@babygotprose) February 11, 2019
#JahleelAddae whats your mother look like?
— Hero Serena (@SwampSipper) February 10, 2019
There was a Twitter thread of people posting pictures of darker-skinned children to show Addae and Nelson “what beauty is.”
Can we get a darkskin baby thread so #JahleelAddae and his wife can see what beauty is? pic.twitter.com/65P467SVgY
— I write..😛💋💋 (@Ebonydiamonds19) February 10, 2019
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