I understand this was made to be “art” but we as Black people have to be aware of how our actions affect everyone. Dark skinned women have been historically left out and looked down upon. With Amia being left out we need to recognize the impact. The impact is more important than the intent.

As soon as someone says “You dark skin girls always...” the conversation has moved into colorism territory.

Im ( as a mixed girl) sorry for all the actually BLACK women still having to fight for their recognition... very very sad topic 2021 please let there be some change damn

The “shes biracial so she’s black” thing never say right with me. Cuz of that’s the argument, she’s also white. If you’re biracial, you’re biracial you can’t just claim a side

ABOLISH THE ONE DROP RULE ALL IT DOES IS CAUSE HARM TO BLACK WOMEN!!!!!!

Enny's response is deffo wayward, jorja Smith is getting more recognition for HER song than she is and she's okay with a dark skin black woman being cut out of the remix while claiming to celebrate everyone and every tone...abeg 🙄

The Industry is extremely colorist. Whoever denies that is lying. The fact that artist lighten their skin to be more popular is enough proof for me.

as white girl living in white country i never encountered any of these problems irl. This video was great and truly educational, and i agree with a comment saying: if bi-racial person isn´t considered white, it shouldn´t be considered black. (same goes for asian and other bi-racial)

Biracial does not equal light-skinned black girl!!!

Idk what’s worse, the way society as a whole belittles dark skin black women or the amount of light skin mixed girls/light skin black girls who allows this. A good amount are happy to help dismiss dark skins black girls. Silence against the abuse we face is also violent.

Fast forward to Dani Leigh and her Yellabone smh 🤦🏿‍♀️ they want our glory but not our blues.

They really could've just left her on the chorus, added Jorja's verse and dueted on the last chorus. They're space for all of them on the song

There is no reason all THREE girls couldn't have been on that remix together.

This is the means of people’s claiming they love black women specifically blk (dark skin) woman publicly is mostly performative

just leaving out the original girl (amia) is messed up. I didn't find out that there was a remix with jorja until I asked Alexa to just play peng black girl. Bc Alexa automatically plays the remix not the original and that should tell enny something.

Please go blow up the original video if yall really mad like that. I love the original song much better, and yall need to show more love by actually streaming the song in stead of being mad on twitter. We need solutions people

The piece about solidarity is 100% facts. As a light skin, a lot of light skin women need to truly get over themselves. You can’t claim blackness when it benefits you and then act like you’re superior to darker skinned women because being mixed and light skin is fetishized. That shit is trifling, and I’m glad more people are calling it out.

The song actively said y’all never wanna put us in the media, let’s be real black women aren’t psychic. People are choosing to ignore black womens issues. Like how can you listen to that and then put a phenotypically ambiguous women to sing/rap like cmon, this is purposeful at this point. It also shows how deep our indoctrination is because Enny really defended her teams decision.

The irony in the lyrics

for me as a mixed girl i think this video is good for me and it educates me, because now i understand this topic better. i have always known that because i'm also half white i'm privileged and i'm thankful for the things that this world offers me but i also now because of this video i have seen that bw and mostly darkskin women have it so much worse than me and i want to be able to actually acknowledge that in life.

I'm think the producers knew what they were doing, like not even a song that is embracing black girls can be free of drama or controversy

Hopefully, this will actually change. But, one thing about this is, black men get their representation but it's never the same for black women.

from a biracial woman: dsbw are too inclusive but it isn’t their fault. our society has brainwashed us to discredit, distespect and steal and take up spaces of blackness since slavery; and they’re just in the same system teaching it as us. same system, different effects of feelings. the same thing making light skins feel that entitlement towards ds is the same thing making ds women feel the need to be inclusive towards everybody. i get frustrated trying to tell people and exclusively be viewed as biracial because people think i DONT want to be identified as black. it is NOT that. i am not the representation of white, *nor should i be for black* i’m not full white im half, km not full black i’m half, i am my OWN RACE (if u wanna get technical with humanoids we could talk about how ethnicities like spanish start but i’m not gonna) anyway. when will people wake up and realize biracial being coined black is white peoples/systems way of trying to control/be part of and fetishizes blackness (because pure blackness is the most genetically evolved human, meaning we instinctually are more inclined to cater toward them). this has been happening since slavery wake up. edit: society has brainwashed us but demonic excuses for humans who excuse man made concepts around feelings of “pride, greed, ego” etc. they don’t want to lose their privileges because they are demons. i’m not coddling biracial and whites and other races. it is ultimately their choice and they are choosing to continue the system because they are not true humans; they are selfish demons who only care for themselves.

this is upsetting. and the denial drives me crazy!

I’m from the UK and when Enny and Jorja’s colors performance was posted on the blogs (on insta), all I saw from both men and women, were comments about how beautiful Jorja was etccc... Completely dismissed Enny and the lyrics of the song!! I didn’t even know that there was an original with another black girl 🥴

Omg I thought the same thing. Because tell me why Jorja was getting the most recognition and attention of a song that isn’t hers? Dark skin women should be uplifted without the need of mentioning light skin women. It’s weird

Loved this video and agreed with you completely! Amia should have been on the remix and in the colours video imo

Out of context but I find Eloho such a heavenly name!

As a mixed man this is definitely colorism, shit why couldn’t they both be on the track? Edit: Not y’all beefin in the comments! There’s too much division between mixed people and fully black people, this is exactly what the white man wants!

It’s crazy that Black Womyn are always the only ones to embrace everyone but don’t ever get the same love in return. I be thinking that Black is just a default for folks to check an identity box/to be in the “black culture” rather than actually understanding their identity, blackness, and making positive improvements towards it.

Unpopular opinion: Eloho should’ve been on the remix😂

We should as black women who started these trends and here comes every one from the sun using the dances we started ,trying to get our rhythm and our ryme and steal our culture every time.

Jorja's silence is speaking volumes....

I don’t like how they kicked Amia Brave off the song when they could’ve just extended the length of the song if they really wanted Jorja Smith but instead they replaced her. Like Enny could’ve done the first verse, Amia the chorus, and Jorja could’ve done her remix verse. So they did erase her like that wasn’t the whole point of the song.

This opened my eyes

I feel like it stems into this idea that ‘talent is for the beautiful’, and it’s often towards Eurocentric standards of beauty, which is totally wrong and unfair. And people like to scream black is beautiful, but the question is .... ‘is black beautiful’ or ‘a certain type of black is beautiful’. SMH things need to change 🤦🏾‍♀️

This is the reason people should stop classifying mixed race women as light skin. There are light skin women with two black parents. If one of your parents is NOT black then accept the term bi racial , nothing wrong with that.

I wasn't expecting any main stream youtuber to make a video about this but thank you for shedding light. I've been frustrated about this since it made it on Colours. Thank you, thank you.

Real talk. I'm a black man, I saw the colors joint first and I am new to both of the artists. But after I watched the colors session it made me want to go find more of ENNYs stuff. I found the original song and its just as fire. Jorja cannot replace the original singer. Amia makes the first video and has her visuals locked in history. And Enny has so much skill it's impossible to look past her. Out of respect the Amia should be brought back in. The song is about a bunch of black females with different skin tones. Let's not create division where none is needed. The song bangs hard and the women are top notch artists. Keep up the work sistahs.

Y couldn't they both be on?

the song is all over tik tok and guess whose verse is getting the most attention

A lot of the time when people mention lightskin black women, they’re really talkin about biracial women...

I was saying this when I saw the Colors remix video views were so high. It's a subconscious thing at the point people associate beauty with tone 🙄🙄

I love both versions. I think they should make a 3rd version all 3 together.

Eloho: She was born to a Jamaican father an- Me: Say no more. I already know how this is gonna pan out. 🙄

Enny is def not being honest in her response. She is riding the fence she wants to stay on the good side of her label and is enjoying the fact that the song took off while giving us a bs excuse to justify the dark skinned woman being replaced.

It's the UK, where there plenty of colorism and racism. What do you expect?

Not going to lie when I heard the song, I was like yesssss love the message but I felt uncomfortable at the end and I could not understand why. I still felt like there was a disconnect in what i heard vs what I saw. The black woman (especially our darker melanated queens) is always leveraged in a very subtle way and often times it’s so subtly done it goes over our heads. It’s by the world, our own community and I asked myself the question, “can we address the divide by just saying there are different shades of black to spark unity when the reality is the divide exists bc of the obvious tiered placements of the black shades in society”. Enny tried to address something that she clearly didn’t think all the way through and it’s sad she doesn’t get that.

BIRACIAL DOES NOT EQUAL LIGHTSKINNED.

We literally have to blame us black women too, we do not support DSBW when they put out music

From the uk and over the years have watched this happen in the music industry with many of my friends ... dark skin blk women replaced by the Latino or light skin woman.

I agree with Eloho she is speaking truth

jorjia is mixed. she is 50% black. having mixed girls at the fore front of black related things isn’t fair

I don’t think the issue is ENNY and Jorja, I think it falls on the decision makers as Amia Brave stated. Jorja is a talented and well liked artist and I don’t think the song is poppin bc of how she looks, I think it’s bc of her fan base.

There's so much to say about this Eloho, and you're such an inspiration for doing the hard work of starting a conversation/forum like this for KZfaq audiences. As a mixed race, Canadian woman who's family is from the Caribbean, I think that race is more polarizing in America especially compared to Canada or the UK. It's unfortunate that due to the extreme racial inequalities, it's so much harder for black women especially, who are consistently ignored and deemed irrevelant by the larger white society. It's insidious, and something to be mindful of not replicating. Coming from a racially fluid place, like the Caribbean, and a more tolerant city, like Toronto, I dont have the same relationship to race- if we agree to colonial, superficial standards of where the line of blackness begins and ends, we are agreeing to be divided as a group of black people according to the lines colonialist have drawn- I think we can be a true rich, tolerant tapestry, that doesn't create borders based on superficial constructs. I can only speak for myself, and although I am part Indian I have always felt mostly black because of the ignorance of society's understanding of race. I have felt marginalized as a black woman, and I understand what that can do to someone; I feel warmth and love and solidarity with black people, (and people in general), and I agree with Enny that that experience cannot be negated based on my skin colour, because we should not turn around and oppress/exclude other people as we were oppressed, especially when we have a shared experience. There is also the larger problem of the modern simplification of race, and whiteness and blackness, (especially in America); they are short cuts to consolidate a lot of unknowns regarding family trees and migration, and people in general don't have to agree to these limitations. As for the artists, they don't have as much control over these decisions, so the real question is about for me is about the decision Colours and the label came to to remove the beautiful Amia, and unfortunately I think it comes down to both marketing and label representation. I think having 3 of them, Amia in the middle perhaps, would have been visually amazing, but I think unfortunately there is a bias against too much representation at one time. So, I think as people of colour, we need to create the situations to see change by starting our own labels, and becoming the people who make those decisions. And most importantly by speaking with our likes and views. The most crucial thing is that while it is easy to return the hate we receive, we should not agree to do this according to super imposed colour lines. Race or colour has never a barrier to me forming bonds with other black women, dark or light, and it would be so alienating to add black that to the list of communities that don't accept me based on superficial reasons. It's important to call these things out, and make change, but it is also to important to lead with positivity, and not tear ourselves down from within. The black diaspora is a generous inclusive space, and the larger world can be as well. We don't have to agree to be in super imposed silos. It would be fantastic if Enny, Amia, and Jorja did their own remix apart from colours and put it up. Of course they'd have to really feel it, because they all seem like generous artists who wouldn't do something they're not invested in. I would love for them to even chat about this with us, their fans- this topic makes for a rich discussion for sure.

This is why I’m a BLACK WOMAN raising my HALF BLACK, HALF KOREAN daughter as BIRACIAL and NOT BLACK. Stop reinforcing the white man’s one drop rule and allow biracial children to build their own communities while having access to the two that they are a part of without having to choose one over the other! As I tell my daughter, biracials are everywhere! Calling her biracial reinforces that she is allowed to have her own mixed identity; calling her black denies a whole part of who she is AND denies the whole of who I am with two black parents! Get it together, people!

TBH blame the artist, why have her on the song when you know she doesn't represent it? It's titled: "Peng black girls" for a reason, the video is full of DSBW. Idk what either of these women were thinking , making this remix.

Burn the cape. Be more Exclusive BLACK women. 🤷🏾‍♀️🤷🏾‍♀️🤷🏾‍♀️

I love this channel and I love reading the comments

its the fact that when u type peng black girl into youtube, Jorja’s name pops up as if she’s the main artist of the song. Like hello????? 🥴

This is sooo stupid how do you get erased from your own song

Lol Enny girl. What an excuse. She made a song and now it looks like she’s pandering. She can’t be annoyed at the narrative she created. She could’ve kept Amia on the damn song. That would’ve really represented the message. I’m blaming Enny tbh 🤷🏾‍♀️ her complacency with her own erasure is her fault.

When ppl stop trying to change everybody’s views etc is when ppl become a lot happier with not only themselves but with life in general, everybody is not going to like you & not everybody’s ideas about you will change that they have about you, rep who you are & keep it moving & not give a damn what anybody has to say about you or feels about you , start celebrating not giving a fuck 🤷🏽‍♀️

The problem is that colorism is real and is a real problem. Us dark women need to stop buttering up mix or biracial races when it benefits them. 5 months in and colorism shows (ENNY and Amia version of song still at 2 million views while the version on COLORS with Jorja has 12 million views. If that's not evident enough idk what is. ENNY song preaches that dark skin women need to be treated equally and it's sad and pathetic that biracial women like to act and represent us dark skin women when it gets them to where they want to be. It's in come sense fake representation. Being realistic, mixed and biracial black girls don't go through the same struggles like us dark dark skin black girls, so it's unfair for light skin to be the representation of us dark skin in the media. I mean bless up to the few dark skin women in media that we do have but truth is we need more dark black skin women representing.

The “splaining” she was doing in that clubhouse audio is nauseating. BW always taking up for people smh. We’re literally the muses and pet projects for the entire world to just mule off of. Sis got on and folded just that quick.

Beyonce and Nicki Minaj are bigger artistes than Doja Cat and Megan Thee Stallion yet their parts in the remix for Savage and Say so wasn't pushed instead of the original. The “excuse” of Jorja being the bigger artiste which is why her verse is being pushed more than ENNY's is dumb.

This world is crazy mehn

I really like both versions. Love Jorja's voice tho.

I just found your channel when I found this video. I also just heard of this song. I paused the video, opened Spotify and said “Peng black girl” and it went straight to the remix. So I understood the erasure thing... I didn’t even mention the remix

The original song is so good, I was so irritated when everyone was acting like this was Jorja's song or something. Her verse was good however, the song would've been just as amazing without her. ENNY and Amia deserve their credit as smaller artists and extremely talented black women.

Definitely Erasure

Queen you are absolutely right in all your points. The music industry is a crooked industry & they know exactly what they are doing. This is an Anthem to all of our Queens & the industry know exactly how to cause division amongst our people. I believe it was done intentionally not by the these Beautiful artists BUT by those in charge. All they think about is the Money. Enny is a straight up Queen and I pray to the Most High Yah that Enny will not allow the music industry to change her. Regardless of Jorga being mixed she belongs to us and she is our Queen. We can't allow the higher ups or the people above divide our people and treat any of our Queens as an outcast. I loved the video the video with Amia in it and to see our culture was a beautiful thing to see. Thank you for your breakdown on the situation. Much Love and Respect to all of our Queens. You are the standard of beauty. All shades of beauty. Shalom!!!

the "media" "keep" doing this garbage, IT "HAS" to stop.

Ain't nobody replacing Lauryn Hill and that's on that

Importance of exclusivity

This song doesn't prove that biracial women erase DSBW, it proves that the people in positions of power in the INDUSTRY are erasing or minimizing DSBW in the media. Lets be specific here so that we can invoke Change. Too often biracial or lightskinned black women are given opportunities to be the primary representation of Black Women, which isn't fair (primarily done by men in this industry). Amia should have been kept on the song with Enny and add Jorja to catapult it. However, there are too many incredibly talented DSBW in music and entertainment that often go unnoticed or purposefully to the waist side that never get the opportunity to go mainstream, because they are not deemed "marketable" or "desirable" for record sells in the industry, due to archaic colorist ideologies. Thankfully, social media is giving underground artists more recognition to go mainstream but we still need to be cognized.

Colorism crossed my mind when the remix of this song came out and I didn’t even expect anyone to talk about it! Glad you did💕

They only love accepting bi-racial women but NEVER bi-racial men. Tired of this.

Never heard of sis.

Yh when this became big in the uk, everyone thought the song was Jorja’s. All the blog pages would post Jorja’s section of the remix and all the comments were gassing Jorja and her figure and everything else. It was so sad that Enny and Amia were literally nowhere to be found. BUT Jorja from the jump literally said ‘Enny says ...’ which no one clocked😭 such a song with such a message and no one’s actually hearing and taking in the words everyone’s saying

enny doesnt seem to fully understand the capacity of this. at the same time, she needed jorja on it to make it go viral unfortunately and thats the industry

I remember Jorja did an interview about a year ago, she was asked about colorism. She literally laughed and said "People just love to hate on me, so idk", I was like GIRL WHAT?! They do not stand up for us, and it's a damn shame. If you want to get historical, yes we had the darkskin vs lightskin issue, HOWEVER, there were many white passing Blacks who purchased dark skin slaves so that they could free them. That solidarity has been lost!

Straight up why do I always feel bad for being bi racial? Like I get some bi racial ppl are assholes but generalizing ppl is racism itself

I'm way behind on this as I only recently discovered the song. This is so heartbreaking because I had high hopes for Enny, but she is giving "pick-me" energy. She needs to stop blindly defending and take this as a lesson learned.

Colorisim ain’t never gon stop, and da media ain’t never gon give us a chance to shine, I gave tf up🙄

Yess this topic had me going back and forth. So much gaslighting in the comment section on Instagram.

Two things can be true at once!!! Mixed/light skinned people ARE black and mixed/light skinned people need to do more to educate themselves and take action against colorism.

I like the original’s song instrumental better🔥🔥

Colorism in the UK is *brutal.* Whew.

I was talking about this with my cousin the other day. All of the clips going around on social media are of Jorja Smiths' segment even though she was only featuring in the song.

Personal experience aside from the video which explains everything so well(sorry if i have errors). *Majority of the family on my fathers side are dark skin people. Aunts,grand parents uncles, cuzzos ect. My mother's side where her father is black and my moms side's grandmother is lighter with red hair. My mother is afro latina( and light skined) while my father is a dark skin man. I'm light with a huge pretty afro,big juicy lips and big nose. We are Puerto Ricans born and raised. I don't know if this has happend to lighter skinned black people but i have experienced racism my whole life. Where they have mocked my big lips "crispy bad hair" and big nose to the core. In Puerto Rico racism can be very brutal and even tho i'm lighter i have still...strongly.. experienced racism in my island. I have some cousins who are also lighter like me. I do have previlege on some ways but as a light skinned man in Puerto Rico,racism has been strong. I'm an almost 6 foot Puerto Rican man,shade like for example "Zendeya". This song (both versions) have really helped me in general,it has reached soul and cleared messages for me. I also have a brother who is a little darker than me,another one who is lighter and a sister who is like me,natural afro hair as well.

I love your style of videos. Your topics are 🔥

let me get this straight if you are biracial and have a black parent and another parent that is not black YOU👏🏾ARE👏🏾NOT👏🏾BLACK👏🏾 you are literally ignoring half of you e.g. saying ‘I am black’ when your father is white sounds crazy. THERE👏🏾IS👏🏾NOTING👏🏾WRONG👏🏾WITH👏🏾 SAYING👏🏾YOU👏🏾ARE👏🏾BIRACIAL👏🏾 it’s okay.

Some biracial women do not want to give up their privilege in the black community. Those biracials might not have a black identity, but they won't tell you that.

Colourism is really big in the uk black community💔💔

I don't know if this has been mentioned,the song they sampled was written/sung by a Angie Stone a dark-skinned Black women.

Lmaooo not a single girl looking like Jorja was in the original music video

Thank you for saying this!! It really irritated me when my non-Black friends & I were talking about the song & when I told them that it wasn’t Jorja’s song they were confused because they had only seen her on TikTok & not ENNY. ENNY deserves the praise for HER song! As well as this, I’m pissed that Amia is also not getting the recognition she deserves. I’m so glad I’m not the only one in thinking this; I thought I was being petty😩🙆🏾‍♀️

I love your videos. ❤️

Take off the capes for biracial women!