Anthony Reeves denies racism allegations after screenshots spread Instagram: Anthony ReevesPopular TikTokker Anthony \u201cluvanthony\u201d Reeves has responded to allegations of racist comments according to screenshots spreading on Instagram and Twitter. Anthony Reeves became a member of TikTok\u2019s Sway house in late 2019 and began dating Avani Gregg, a member of the Hype House, in March. Reeves has 9 million followers on TikTok where he posts lip sync videos and duets, and 4.6 million followers on Instagram. In a selection of screenshots posted on TikTok room, Anthony appears to defend using a derogatory term for black people several times. One comment says: \u201cLast time I checked white people can say ***** too.\u201d Another comment reads: \u201cIf colored people can say it I can too.\u201d https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CB1O2WkHlmd\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link Anthony\u2019s fans were disappointed in the TikTok star. Sumeya Mahad wrote: \u201che was our only unproblematic king :\/\u201d, and @rebelhall wrote: \u201cWE WERE ALL ROOTING FOR YOU.\u201d Since the screenshots were posted, Anthony has spoken out on Twitter, saying that the comments are not real. He wrote: \u201cI\u2019m going to address the Screenshots going around. These are fake. No, I didn\u2019t say the N-word and I never would. I was raised to love and care for everyone no matter the skin color. https:\/\/twitter.com\/imanthonyreeves\/status\/1275924606113787904 \u201cI would never say anything to hurt anyone or to affect anyone in any way. especially a word with such an awful history and meaning behind it. I respect everyone no matter their skin color and would never say anything to offend anyone. \u201cI\u2019m really sorry if this did offend anyone in any way and I\u2019d never want to do that. I love each and every one of you dearly and would never try to say anything to hurt someone or you.\u201d https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CB1wAWanTRL\/ Since Anthony posted his statement, Twitter users and TikTok room have posted screen recordings of Anthony appearing to use the derogatory term on Instagram in 2017, when Anthony would have been 16 years old. Another member of the Sway house, Bryce Hall, recently apologized after he faced backlash over an \u201cinsensitive\u201d tweet about \u201cstraight TikTok.\u201d Anthony is yet to address the new screen recordings that have surfaced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Anthony Reeves denies racism allegations after screenshots spread Instagram: Anthony ReevesPopular TikTokker Anthony \u201cluvanthony\u201d Reeves has responded to allegations of racist comments according to screenshots spreading on Instagram and Twitter. Anthony Reeves became a member of TikTok\u2019s Sway house in late 2019 and began dating Avani Gregg, a member of the Hype House, in March. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}