Amber Rose Hits Back At Critics Following 'African Queen' Backlash: 'Kiss my Ass'

The model and media personality believes even white people should be able to call themselves "African Queens."

May 10, 2025

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 01: Amber Rose arrives at Utopia Presents Darren's Oscar party with Vivienne Sabo Paris to Benefit Global Empowerment Mission LA Wildfires Relief at Sheats Goldstein Residence on March 01, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.

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Amber Rose has hit out at critics after the negative reaction to her self-proclaimed title as an "African Queen."

In a recent Instagram post of herself with Baddies star Natalie Nunn, Rose captioned it "African Queens." The post, however, received some backlash due to the women being mixed race, with Rose being of Cape Verdean, Irish and Italian descent. But it appears that Rose and Nunn, along with Zeus Network CEO Lemuel Plummer, were in Nairobi, Kenya, at the time for outreach to undeserved children.

But in an Instagram post shared by The Shade Room on Friday (May 9), Rose had returned from the country and was doubling down on her "African Queens" comment.

"Kiss my ass," Rose told the haters. "We’re all African queens. We all come from Africa. All the homosapiens in the world come from Africa."

Rose said it was "one hundred percent" okay for white people to also call themselves "African Queens" and added that "people need to get out of their feelings."

The model and media personality also denied that the remark was insensitive because African people "love" her. "I've been over there plenty of times. They don't talk about race like they do over here in America," she added.

"If you're a good person over there, that's all they care about. I mean, to the places that I've been—I can't speak for every country in Africa. But everywhere I've been, as soon as you get off the airplane, they say, 'Welcome home.'"

But Rose's caption especially unnerved those that agreed with Joseline Hernandez alleging that Rose wanted to be white in a 2022 episode of College Hill: Celebrity Edition.

In the Season 2 episode of the BET reality television series, the two personalities clashed during a discussion about racial identity. "I identify myself and let you know who that is. Your problem is that you really wanna be a white girl," Hernandez told Rose in a highly contentious moment.

BET didn't air the footage of the full incident, which quickly turned violent, but it surfaced online later anyway.