French Montana caused an uproar on social media after he deliberately hopped on Twitter to search for negative tweets about himself and responded to a black woman by calling her nappy and dusty.
After originally defending his right to call the woman nappy, he eventually apologized and made sure people knew that his mother is African and that his ex-wife and son are black.
Now the woman he went off on is speaking out and she wants people to know she’s doing just fine.
However, she is disappointed that so many black men defended French.
Here’s an excerpt of 22 year old Maryam Barksdale’s interview with Complex:
How did you feel when you saw his response?
Honestly, I laughed. And then I went around and I showed my co-workers. People think that I’m angry about it or I’m depressed or I’m crying or I’m going to delete my Twitter, and I’m really not.Honestly, I think I made him poppin’. Because if you look at his Twitter, he has like 200-300 retweets [per tweet], and then he quoted me [and got 25,000 retweets]. So I basically put him in this position to have fame again, because he was not relevant until he quoted me. No one was talking about him. He was not trending on anything. And it just happens he quoted me, and there’s two songs after [French released “No Pressure” and “Unforgettable” hours after the incident with Barksdale]. So it’s just weird.
What were your mentions looking like after it happened?
I got more love from my black women than anyone else—especially not from black men. I got more hate from black men than I got from anyone else. There are videos of [them talking about] me on YouTube, defending [French] from one little comment.The whole “nappy-headed” thing, and black men defending that, knowing that that term was used during the time when black people were discriminated against, getting lynched. White supremacists [saying] “nappy-headed ho,” I see that all the time. And so for black men to be defending that and saying, ‘Oh, it’s not racist, it’s not an insult,’ it doesn’t really make sense.
What did you think when you started seeing people starting to clap back at French? What were you feeling?
I felt happy. Trust me, I saw hate but…I just felt happy about it. I can’t really explain more about it. I rejoiced. And it wasn’t specifically just black women. It was all women.
Maryam also feels like French would have never came at a non black woman the way he came for her.
What are your thoughts?
Of course black men had the cape on for this racist. They hate black women just like he does.
And none of us are suprised. No one has a black woman’s back more than other black women.
It’s sad how messed up some of these black men are. How can you hate the women you came from? They walk around here with black mothers yet hate black women. So sad.
Not surprising that a lot of black men didn’t come to her defense. All in all, I’m glad to see so many black women in support of her/each other. They are quick to say black women never get along and this shows we do support each other in spite of what the majority says.
French is the scum of the earth. And anyone who defended what he did is too. Black women deserve better.
Sad as hell. Anyway I’m glad she’s not letting ignorant fools get to her.
Sounds like she has a good head on her shoulders. Good sh-t.
One of the best things about social media is seeing how many black men really think about black women.
It’s always the loser black men who have hatred for black women. Of course they will defend another loser. They can relate. Good black men weren’t defending this loser.
Oh the black trolls loved what he tweeted. But at the end of the day, they are just making themselves look stupid. Now it’s no longer a secret how messed up so many black men are.
Some black women were defending his trash a-s too. You know the ones who also think natural hair is ugly and wouldn’t dare walk out the house without weaves. A lot of black people just don’t like blackness. Slavery did a number on us.