A Black Texas woman has come under fire after posting a TikTok video criticizing White women who tell her they have mixed-race children. Her comments in the video were deemed insensitive by many netizens, with some even accusing her of being downright racist.
The woman, who goes by @nicky_monroeee on TikTok and is reported to be a phlebotomist, said she did not like the way White women who approach her bring up that they have Black children. She said they would first compliment her hair before telling her their children have hair just like hers, something she said she has no interest in hearing.
“Because now you want me to ask questions like, ‘Is your daughter Black?'” the woman said. “And then you want to show me pictures of these little mixed-breed children.”
The woman mocked the mothers who tell her they are jealous of her hair or wish they had hair like hers, telling them to “get out my face.”
Texas Woman Faces Backlash Online
Although the woman has made her TikTok account private, the video went viral and spread to multiple social media platforms. One repost on X has amassed more than 250,000 views and over a thousand comments, with many netizens slamming her for her remarks.
One person said, “What a sad, pathetic, ugly and dark soul.” Another commented, “We are disgusted when we see you!” A third wrote, “This is pure racism. I’m a white woman married to a black man with three beautiful black kids. Your disgust at families like mine says everything about you.” Someone else added, “It’s crazy that someone in this profession would make a post like this… She should be fired ASAP.”
A few, however, thought she was being judged too harshly and may have been misunderstood. “I don’t know, I kind of get it. I think she’s really throwing shade at toxic white (typically liberal) women and their performative behavior towards anyone who is more melanated,” one comment read.
Her Response to Critics
Before going private, it appears the woman dropped a few more videos responding to the backlash. In one post, she admitted that calling the children “mixed breed” was inappropriate and apologized for using the phrase.
However, she said she still stood by the main point of her original video.
The woman likened her interactions with non-Black mothers to people who continue to wear hospital wristbands after being discharged because they want strangers to ask what happened. “That is how I feel when a woman who is not Black comes up to me in the aisles of H-E-B and immediately trauma dumps on me, a stranger, how she can’t even comb her mixed child’s hair,” she said.
She added, “They will show me a picture stating how me and said child look just alike. A hundred percent of the time, me and that child look nothing alike. We look alike in the sense that we both have eyes and ears. That’s it.”
The woman said that years of being asked whether people could touch her hair had shaped how she views those conversations and that people who have never experienced that would likely not understand where she was coming from.
