![]() ![]() On Sunday (Aug 9), a Twitter user tweeted a photo of the British singer with her parents as well as images of her repeatedly wearing historically Black hairstyles. After people on Twitter re-surfaced a couple of photos of Rita Ora wearing an afro and box braids, the 29-year-old was accused of blackfishing for much of her career. Unless they're blackfishing, no person of fully Balkan origin (meaning they're not mixed race and have one parent who is actually black) is going to be confused as being black. Rita Ora has been accused of 'blackfishing' after the internet discovered that she is white. However, a tweet made earlier this week has sparked the debate on her ethnicity with netizens divided on Twitter. Rita Ora has been accused of blackfishing by Twitter users who discovered her Albanian roots in a viral call out tweet on Monday (August 10). The artist has been open about her Albanian heritage. Unless someone is ethnically Roma, or dark skinned Albanian (a lot of people in Albania do have tan skin, but not all, and certainly not Rita or her parents and certainly not dark enough to look black), they're very "white" looking. Rita Ora has been recently accused of blackfishing as a fan discovered that she is not black. ![]() Do you know anything about the Balkans? Most people from the Balkans are super white. ![]()
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