Former NBA star Gilbert Arenas certainly missed the mark when he took to social media to criticize the beauty of dark-skinned women, using Academy Award-winning actress Lupita Nyong’o as an example to prove his point.
After staunch criticism for saying the 37-year-old beauty is ‘cute when the lights are off,’ the basketballer has now gone to social media to retract his statement and wield an apology.
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In response to:
Arenas took to Instagram to say:
He even followed later to reiterate the stance. See the pic below (provided by our friends at HollywoodUnlocked):
After a backlash from the three-year-old comments, he offered an apology stating:
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He can choke
Lol
lmao 🤣
Chile…internalized hate of ones own skin color is a sad situation. Especially when you get to that age and still don’t find your skin color beautiful and worthy. I guess that’s why he NEEDED to have light skin kids. He’s hated the way he looked for so long.
“I’m sorry” is not enough for the immeasurable harm done by his hateful comments. If he’s learned anything, he should take this moment to educate people on why it’s wrong to have such a racist dialogue about black men and women.
Dummy is same skin tone as lupita
#2Lil2Late
This is self-hatred at its finest! You would have sworn that he was high yella or whatever!!…Negro please! I am sure Lupita is NOT checking for your forced farce of an apology! A day late and a dollar short! Bye!
See…white are oozing at us laughing they asses off because we don’t like our damn selves for the cor of our skin but thats what we fighting against. Keep your dam opinions to yourself! He literally attacked someone he doesn’t know to prove how much of a dumb human being and worthless man he is. Theres a difference between having a preference and blatantly attacking someone.
Straight black men deserve to be killed by cops.
PERIOD
Not this one Clarksoon.
When I said the black race had issues, u people called me all sorts of names.
U see the problem.
And little black boys look up to this idiot.
This is the ideology of 99 percent of straight black men. From Michael b jordan to john boyega.
All skin folk ain’t kinfolk……it took you THREE YEARS TO APOLOGIZE to that woman for your disgusting and self hating comments.
#ByeGilbert ✌🏾✌🏾✌🏾✌🏾
Gilbert Is a very handsome and clever man.
Gilbert Arenas Is a strong black man and so s***, he doesn’t have to apologise for having his own opinion.
Most bm are cloons esp in america and Britain
C*** HE THAT BIG UGLY B** MAN. B** MEN ARE THE WORST. UHHH. HE BOUT YAKE THE D.