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Awkwafina quit Twitter after her “blaccent” non-apology

For years, Awkwafina has been criticised for her caricature-style “blaccent” (black accent, or using the speech patterns and language of African-Americans). Fans have pointed out that during promotional interviews for 2020’s The Farewell – for which she won the best actress Golden Globe – she dropped the accent. Later, during a press junket for Marvel’s Shang-Chi, she dodged a question about cultural appropriation.

Instead, the Nora From Queens star, 33, was accused of making a “non-apology” as she insisted that to “mock, belittle or to be unkind in any way possible at the expense of others is: simply. Not. My. Nature. It never has, and it never was”.

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Real Housewives star Jennie Nguyen was fired after her George Floyd posts

The reality star only joined the Salt Lake City franchise in season two, but she has already been fired thanks to posts from 2020 that her own co-stars labelled “racist”. Nguyen posted on Facebook questioning the cause of George Floyd’s death after the African-American was killed by a white police officer; labelled anti-racism protesters as “thugs” and “violent gangs”; and called for a “White Lives Matter’’ movement in response to Black Lives Matter (started in 2013 after the acquittal of the shooter of African-American teenager Trayvon Martin, who was murdered in 2012).

The 44-year-old apologised for the hurt her comments caused, but made matters worse by saying she stands by suggesting the focus shift to the dangers that law enforcement officers face on the job and damage done to her friends’ businesses during clashes.

The Bravo network cut ties after she complained, “we are getting abuse for things that we didn’t do and that’s not fair” and insisting her views make her “compassionate for the people that are suffering” not “racist”.

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Mamamoo was “ignorant of blackface”

In 2017, the K-pop group apologised after a video surfaced showing them at a show in Japan wearing blackface as they covered Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson’s song Uptown Funk.

The ladies dressed up in outfits featured in the music video for the parody, which debuted in front of an audience in Seoul, but they received a serious backlash. Mamamoo claimed they had no idea of the racist history of white entertainers wearing dark face paint to reinforce negative and often animalistic stereotypes about oppressed black people, but admitted there was “no excuse”.

“We were extremely ignorant of blackface and did not understand the implications of our actions,” the group wrote in a social media statement. “We will be taking time to understand more about our international fans to ensure this never happens again.”

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“Rich Chigga” changed his name … and promised to stop using the N-word

The Indonesian-born spoof rapper – real name Brian Imanuel Soewarno – first caused controversy when he went by the stage name “Rich Chigga”, a portmanteau of “Chinese” and the N-word. The Dat $tick hitmaker also regularly used the N-word in lyrics and played on gangsta rap stereotypes in music videos.

In 2018, the 22-year-old changed his name to “Rich Brian” and apologised for his mistakes on social media. He had already admitted in a 2016 interview with the Fader website that while he wouldn’t remove the N-word from his Dat $tick, if he could redo the song, he would stop using the term.

BTS star RM’s cultural appropriation

The K-pop star donned traditionally black hairstyles in the group’s early days.

But it was his tendency to mimic the vernacular of some black Americans in interviews that caused a backlash. The 27-year-old star has since issued several apologies for his past behaviour.