Fifth Harmony singer Normani Kordei is taking a hiatus from Twitter after her account was flooded with disturbing racist messages.
The 20-year-old pop star, who is black, revealed she's been bombarded with unwarranted diatribe in recent days, prompting her to announce she's leaving the social media site in a lengthy memo to her fans.
"Over the course of this last week and especially over the last 48 hours I've not just been cyber bullied, I've been racially cyberbullied with tweets and pictures so horrific and racially charged that I can't subject myself any longer to the hate," she explained to her 1.72 million followers.
"Hiding behind a computer and putting people down, especially for the color of their skin doesn't make you cool, it makes you a coward!" she continued.
Kordei received a wave of backlash from Fifth Harmony last week after she took a while and failed to give a substantial answer after she was asked to name groupmate Camila Cabello's best quality in a Facebook Live interview, E! News reports.
She shot down any speculation that there was drama within the group in a separate Twitter missive earlier in the weekend, though she admitted she had found herself "the target of unjust hate and slander" in the post.
Among the horrifying attacks she received in recent days is a despicable photo that appears to show her face photoshopped onto a lynched African American, as well as a tweet referring to her as "Narmonkey."
Kordei's break from Twitter comes less than a month after comedian Leslie Jones temporarily left the site in response to a slew of similarly hateful messages.
The "Ghostbusters" star spotlighted the racist Twitter trolls by sharing a wave of the horrifying racist slurs and photos that people had sent to her, telling her followers at the end of the night that she left the website "in tears."
In Kordei's final post before signing off, she lamented the way black public figures are spoken to on social media.
"I'm not the first black female celebrity to deal with this and I'm sure I won't be the last," she penned. "I want to take this moment to say Love goes much further than hate in this world."
Her eye-opening message was met with support from Cabello, who came to her fellow crooner's defense on her own Twitter account.
"I stand by the words "love only", meaning I won't tolerate on my timeline any kind of hate, racism, or discrimination towards ANYONE," she wrote. "You don't have to hate on somebody else to support me- I don't appreciate it and it's not what I'm about."
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The 20-year-old pop star, who is black, revealed she's been bombarded with unwarranted diatribe in recent days, prompting her to announce she's leaving the social media site in a lengthy memo to her fans.
"Over the course of this last week and especially over the last 48 hours I've not just been cyber bullied, I've been racially cyberbullied with tweets and pictures so horrific and racially charged that I can't subject myself any longer to the hate," she explained to her 1.72 million followers.
"Hiding behind a computer and putting people down, especially for the color of their skin doesn't make you cool, it makes you a coward!" she continued.
Kordei received a wave of backlash from Fifth Harmony last week after she took a while and failed to give a substantial answer after she was asked to name groupmate Camila Cabello's best quality in a Facebook Live interview, E! News reports.
She shot down any speculation that there was drama within the group in a separate Twitter missive earlier in the weekend, though she admitted she had found herself "the target of unjust hate and slander" in the post.
Among the horrifying attacks she received in recent days is a despicable photo that appears to show her face photoshopped onto a lynched African American, as well as a tweet referring to her as "Narmonkey."
Kordei's break from Twitter comes less than a month after comedian Leslie Jones temporarily left the site in response to a slew of similarly hateful messages.
The "Ghostbusters" star spotlighted the racist Twitter trolls by sharing a wave of the horrifying racist slurs and photos that people had sent to her, telling her followers at the end of the night that she left the website "in tears."
In Kordei's final post before signing off, she lamented the way black public figures are spoken to on social media.
"I'm not the first black female celebrity to deal with this and I'm sure I won't be the last," she penned. "I want to take this moment to say Love goes much further than hate in this world."
Her eye-opening message was met with support from Cabello, who came to her fellow crooner's defense on her own Twitter account.
"I stand by the words "love only", meaning I won't tolerate on my timeline any kind of hate, racism, or discrimination towards ANYONE," she wrote. "You don't have to hate on somebody else to support me- I don't appreciate it and it's not what I'm about."
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