Giggs vs YouTube Presenter Zeze Millz

YouTube presenter, Zeze Millz, spoke recently about black artists not supporting black female presenters and instead choosing to go on a YouTube series called, Chicken Shop Date, created by a white woman.

YouTube presenter, Zeze Millz

In the YouTube series, 'Chicken Shop Date', you see creator Amelia Dimoldenberg go on spoof dates with 'guests' at local chicken and chip shops and interview them in a more non-formal way than we've become used to seeing.

A recent interview Amelia had with UK artist, Headie One, is what seems to have been the last straw for Zeze.

Amelia responded to Zeze's comments, she acknowledged that she understands she is in a 'privileged position' due to her being 'a white woman'  and that 'more black presenters should be supported by the UK media.'

Amelia pictured with UK rapper, Headie One.

I appreciate Amelia's comments and let's be real, there are a lot of non-black people in the scene who are yet to say these words but yet reap the benefits of our culture on a daily basis.

Giggs

Rapper, Giggs, wasn't impressed with the comments made by Zeze and whilst expressing his feelings he ended up stirred up a few black women's emotions on twitter, when he labeled Zeze a 'bully'.

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The word "Bully" seemed to set a lot of people off and led to a response from Zeze herself.

"As a black woman, I truly believe the word "bully" is like Kryptonite to us." 😀

Disappointed Twitter user

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Yes, black women do have a lil' attitude and sass. It's called passion, but for Giggs to call Zeze a bully was that right?

Giggs released a few videos on Instagram defending his reasons for calling Zeze a bully.

In the last video, Giggs also addresses the comments on twitter from people "expecting a better" response from him.

"Are y'all forgetting this is Giggs?"

Giggs is the most unfiltered, unconformable person in the UK scene. Giggs isn't some Cambridge University English Literature graduate who sits and reads thesauruses' all day and arranging his words in a politically correct manner.

He says what he wants, how he wants to say it and that's how it's always going to be, this is why we love him...lol ✊🏾

Giggs had every right to defend his peers against such slander and defamation.

So I'll ask again, after listening to both sides. "Was Giggs right to call Zeze a bully?"

My answer is...

"Yes!!!"

"Right is right and wrong is wrong."

Zeze made this a 'black artist don't support black females thing' and aimed her tirade at Amelia. One woman doing something by herself.

Firstly, this "I'm black, your black, you gotta help me" narrative we as black people have needs to stop. Just because somebody is black, does it mean we have to instantly support everything they say or do?
Secondly, this isn't about Amelia, this is about the system and the way that things have been set up for black people. Nothing has been easy for us and we have to work 100 times harder than white people.

Black people have no platform and the one time we do, large corporate organisations come and take over.

Take Capital Xtra for example. This use to be Choice FM, a station that was truly invested in the black culture. Now it's a station based on playing songs in the charts. It's not even about the culture anymore.

Sometimes we as black people need to step up and say when one of our own is wrong.

We need to keep the same energy for our own as we would for others outside of the race, and speaking on energy, why isn't Zeze's energy aimed at speaking about the presenters on radio and television  that use and appropriate the black culture?

"Amelia pictured with cultural appropriator, Charlie Sloth."

Zeze was right about the basis of her argument, but who she aimed her argument at was wrong and that's why she came across as a bully.

Zeze later posted a video regarding Giggs' comments about not seeing colour.

Giggs has always stood up for the black culture. He's made his opinions very clear and has even declined to go on programme's where he feels the black community are not fairly portrayed.

After seeing Zeze's "miserable black woman" performance on UK morning show, Good Morning Britain I fully understood her whole purpose. She'll go after Amelia and black artists but not the bigger platforms because she wants to be a part of that.

Zeze complains that black artists are not supporting black presenters and shows, but yet goes on a programme which takes great pleasure in highlighting negativity in the black culture and reflects the same attitude that black women have been cursed with.

"I really hate when people support the black culture when it suits them." 

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