Amara LaNegra Drags Florence El Luche For Colorist Remarks

L-R: Love & Hip Hop Miami stars Amara LaNegra and Florence El Luche. Source: Jamie McCarthy, Aaron J. Thornton / Getty

I haven’t watched Love & Hip Hop Miami in years, but occasionally a storyline enters my social sphere that catches my attention. A recent episode of the iconic franchise is going viral for an ugly colorism moment.

During an encounter, Amara LaNegra confronts Florence El Luche at her women’s empowerment event about promoting bleaching cream in her skincare line. It was clear the Haitian-born singer was offended because she spiraled into an ignorant rant about dark-skinned Black women being mad at light-skinned Black women. Yes. She went there. 

“I’m light-skinned. This b—h is mad,” the self-proclaimed “Queen of Kompa Music” shouted across the table. She continued, “That’s how Black b—hes hate on light-skinned girls?!”

Excuse me? Amara swiftly gathered her without leaving her seat. “How do you come to an event with a bunch of Black beautiful women to promote women’s positivity but you’re on social media telling people to bleach their skin,” asked the Dominican-American artist.

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Amara LaNegra Faces Colorism

The clip has sparked dialogue on social media around colorism and garnered comparisons to the time Erica Mena called Spice a “monkey.” Many users are calling for VH1 to reprimand Flo the way they did Mena.

Mena also took to the comments section on Instagram to call out the network claiming they are showing “selective outrage.” She went on to say, “I was only fired so the network could save face. But yet this is OK and she is probably still filming now.”

Flo has since released an apology statement, taking “accountability” for her words and actions. “While I take responsibility for what I said, I want to acknowledge that the moment shown does not tell the full story,” she wrote … Sure.

Read her apology below.

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