Beyoncé has landed in the middle of a 'blackwashing' furore for wearing a yellow diamond mined in SA in 1877.
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The singer wore the enormous 128-carat Tiffany diamond in an advertising campaign for the New York City luxury goods company.The “About Love” campaign, with a series of photographs also featuring Beyoncé's husband, the rapper Jay-Z, said the 39-year-old singer “becomes the first black woman” to wear the jewel.
Charles Tiffany, the founder of the jeweller, bought the diamond after it was dug out of the Big Hole in Kimberley 144 years ago. “If black success is defined by being paid to wear white people’s large colonial diamonds, then we are truly still in the sunken place,” Attiah wrote.
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