After Sunday night’s episode of Date My Family, there was one star who was left very frustrated. Model and radio presenter Refilwe Modiselle is a living with and a proud advocate for albinism but believed that on the show they disrespected the condition.
Tumelo, a contestant on the show, who has the same condition, was looking for love on Sunday’s episode but was offended when one of the girls on the show referred to people living with albinism as “albino people”. Refilwe was very quick to take to Twitter to question why the show’s creators had not corrected her.
I just wish the #DateMyFamily producers/writers could have corrected this lady when they shot this or before it went to edit….she kept referring to “albino people” its not that please…. “it’s people with albinism” it’s a condition. “Albino” tends to have a stigma. 😕
— Refilwe Modiselle (@vanillablaq) July 1, 2018
Exactly my point…. ! It doesn’t help us people who live through this to constantly hear even the media/people continue to allow descriptions that don’t assist the education. 😔 it’s annoying https://t.co/1refpEw7fi
— Refilwe Modiselle (@vanillablaq) July 1, 2018
Please don’t disrespect us….. & it really isn’t a joke…. how would you like our fellow black people to be called the “k” word
The problem is these very labels
Please use common sense
Collectively “people with albinism
Singular “person with albinism” #CaseClosed https://t.co/iTHeizI6BO
— Refilwe Modiselle (@vanillablaq) July 1, 2018
Reality show or not however real if may seem….. things are monitored my dear…..things are viewed pre edit & post edit.
Let’s not make excuses for slopiness & she happened to mention this in a diary session not to him. He wouldn’t have known how she termed it. https://t.co/86zuu02Nqy
— Refilwe Modiselle (@vanillablaq) July 1, 2018
This might not be a concern to you but some person/child has to live through society’s rubbish like this…. the very people that you might not be concerned with are getting killed because of such commentary….so you should give a damn because this could be your own 1 day. https://t.co/jjgfpAD5If
— Refilwe Modiselle (@vanillablaq) July 1, 2018
And where did you get that it’s a race of its own…..habeh nangumhlolo.
Let’s get this correct race is defined by what…? The parents you are born from! So how is a lack of pigmentation of a child born with albinism… to a black or white person a determination of ones RACE! 😠 https://t.co/aOZ9yRLgJn
— Refilwe Modiselle (@vanillablaq) July 1, 2018
As seen from the above, Refilwe is very passionate about the subject and just wants people to see it from her perspective. What are your thought?
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