Rihanna Responds To Dutch Magazine's Racist Slur
Rihannahas taken to Twitter to react to a fashion writer's comments in a recent issue of the Dutch magazine, Jackie.
In an article about RiRi, entitled 'De N***abitch' - which was translated by Parlourmagazine.com - the publication wrote: "She has street cred, she has a ghetto ass and she has a golden throat. Rihanna, the good girl gone bad, is the ultimate n***abitch and displays that gladly, and for her that means: what’s on can come off."
"If that means she’ll be on stage half naked, then so be it. But Dutch winters aren’t like Jamaican ones, so pick a clothing style in which your daughter can resist minus ten. No to the big sunglasses and the pornheels, and yes to the tiger print, pink shizzle and everything that glitters. Now let’s hope she won’t beat anybody up at daycare.”
While readers were shocked by the magazine's language, description of the singer and factual inaccuracies (Rihanna is from Barbados not Jamaica), the We Found Love hitmaker herself has now hit back at the publications comments.
Writing to Jackie editor-in-chief Eva Hoeke on Twitter, the 23-year old raged: "I hope u can read english, because your magazine is a poor representation of the evolution of human rights! I find you disrespectful and rather desperate!!"
"You ran out of legit, civilized information to print! There are 1000's of Dutch girls who would love to be recognized for their contributions to your country, you could have given them an article. Instead, u paid to print one degrading an entire race! That's your contribution to this world!"
RiRi added: "To encourage segregation, to mislead the future leaders to act in the past! You put two words together, with the intent of abasement, that made no sense ... 'N***a Bitch'?!....Well with all respect, on behalf of my race, here are my two words for you ... F*** YOU!!!"
The magazine has since taken to Facebook to issue an apology for the use of the racial slur, with a note from Hoeke reading: "First: thanks for all your responses. We are of course very fed up over this and especially very shocked. However I'm glad that we're engaging in a dialogue on this page — not everybody does that. Thanks for this. Other than that I can be brief about this: this should have never happened. Period,"
The statement continued: "While the author meant no harm — the title of the article was intended as a joke — it was a bad joke, to say the least. And that slipped through my, the editor-in-chief's, fingers. Stupid, painful and sucks for all concerned."
"The author has been addressed on it, and now I can only ensure that these terms will no longer end up in the magazine. Furthermore I hope that you all believe there was absolutely no racist motive behind the choice of words. It was stupid, it was naive to think that this was an acceptable form of slang — you hear it all the time on tv and radio, then your idea of what is normal apparently shifts — but it was especially misguided: there was no malice behind it."
Hoeke concluded: "We make our magazine with love, energy and enthusiasm, and it can sometimes happen that someone is out of line. And then you can only do one thing: apologize. And hope that others wish to accept it. From the bottom of my heart I say it again: we never intended to offend anyone. And I mean that."
After issuing the above statement and apologising to Rihanna, Eva Hoeke - who worked at the publication for eight years - has since resigned as editor-in-chief of Jackie magazine.
RiRi also hit the headlines this week after she became the [uuid=b4ce1596-c5d1-4d6a-a12f-48d33b4c6a7a]victim of racial abuse[/uuid] in a hotel in Portugal, where a man attacked her with discriminative language.
