Cardi B recently talked about the pressure she feels to be a role model, saying that she feels trapped and sad because she has to watch what she says but people still “spit her past in her face.” She has said she’s going to go back to her ‘old self’ and not hold back on what she wants to say or do.
The issue with this, is Cardi’s “old self” was someone with transphobic, homophobic, racist, and sexist tendencies that willingly said whatever she thought of and got mad at people for saying what she deemed wrong. It would be understanding that she’s fed up with people bringing up her problematic past but she hasn’t once apologized or acknowledged that she was in the wrong.
Cardi B is anything but a role model so there shouldn’t even be any pressure on her to be one. She says problematic things and doesn’t back up and realize the wrong that she’s in ever. How is that being a role model for young girls?
The thing is is that Cardi still says and does problematic things, maybe just not as much as she used to. She called a black baby a monkey while in “beef” with Nicki Minaj last year. She allowed her husband, Offset, to rap “I do not vibe with qu**rs” and excused it by saying she never heard anyone say that was a bad word for gays. She joked about if Offset ever cheated on her that she would set him up with a “tr***y” and excused this by stating that transgender people use the word so there isn’t a problem. She has continuously called black women “roaches.” She brags about not writing her own raps. She even said she only makes music for money. And the most recent: being called out for drugging men and stealing from them when she was a stripper, excusing this by saying that’s ‘just how it is living that life’. She’s still the person of her old life, just a more hushed version so that she’ll keep her career.
Cardi needs to learn from her mistakes instead of pushing the blame to “haters” that just want to see her downfall when she’s the one creating it. It’s great to understand what one has done or said in the past is bad, but when one still continuously does problematic things and acts like it’s someone else’s fault, that just shows they have no sign in actually wanting to change. Cardi doesn’t want to change how “outspoken” she is and that would be completely okay if what she says isn’t offensive to every minority that she ever speaks about. She still even says the n word when she’s not black. There’s no hope in her changing from the looks of it.
At the end of the day, Cardi B isn’t a role model and shouldn’t complain about the pressure of being one. She puts blame on people, including her own fans, for the wrongs she’s done. If Cardi B is your role model, maybe rethink that.