Paola Mayfield is receiving quite a bit of backlash after posting her thoughts on the death of George Floyd, with quite a few followers calling her post “tone deaf” as others stuck up for the 90 Day Fiance star.
It all began with a post where Paola revealed that she had just watched the video of George Floyd being “murdered by police.”
Paola told her followers, “I can’t take the words out of my head.”
Then, the 90 Day Fiance star offered her condolences “for those who have lost someone in times like this and even more in the way the George Floyd lost his life.”
After that, Paola offered her message that she hopes people can come together and learn to love each other, saying of the recent riots, “destroying and creating more chaos won’t fix anything.”
But that’s not the part that has everyone up in arms.
The reason that Paola Mayfield has been called out on her “tone deaf” post was that she chose to share it with a photo of herself rather than one of the now-deceased George Floyd.
Here’s what Paola Mayfield’s Instagram followers had to say
“You post a picture of yourself when attempting to pay tribute to Mr. Floyd?” One commenter wrote. “The point is to post his picture, considering your following, you have a voice and a platform. For once, step outside your vanity and realize that not everything is about your tacky colored hair and clothes that seem to shrink in the dryer because they are too damn small for you.”
And they weren’t alone. Many comments poured in, calling out the 90 Day Fiance star for making the post about herself and not George Floyd.
Another wrote, “I thought I was going to see a pic of George Floyd.”
While another commenter voiced the same thing, saying, “Girl I love you but you could have used a different picture.”
Yet another wrote, “This post is tone deaf. There is no correlation between this atrocious story and this picture of you looking so calm and happy. People in the comments saying how beautiful you are with no mention of this mans cruel and untimely death. If you want to highlight this issue try giving some attention to the man, his family, the community.”
Paola Mayfield responds to the backlash
It didn’t take long for Paola to respond to the backlash she was receiving from those who thought she was using the tragedy of George Floyd’s death to gain more attention for herself.
The 90 Day Fiance star shared another post to Instagram that same day, this time with no picture at all. Her caption read, “This is the last thing I will say about this subject. I’m sorry if you feel offended it is not my intention but remember that we all have freedom of speech and that doesn’t give anyone the right to insult and degrade someone!”
The photo this time was a lengthy note where she insists that she is “not the problem.” Paola insists that her message was “not about the picture” but that it got everyone’s attention.
Then, instead of focusing on the death of George Floyd, which she didn’t even mention in her rebuttal, she said the pictures she would like to post are “those kids being killed in Syria, the 800 thousand kids that are missing every year only in the USA, the kids that are used for sacrifice, the pictures of children and adults being trafficked.”
And while there were plenty posting their support of Paola, many others continued to call her out.
One wrote, “Again, this post could’ve been kept to yourself. This response proves that you don’t get it, and not willing to leave and understand why it was tone deaf. Just be real… you wanted attention. People are telling you what’s wrong with the post, and instead you get offended. We don’t need your fake support.”
The full post can be seen below.
This isn’t the first controversy for Paola Mayfield
Paola Mayfield is no stranger to controversy and she often steps in it on social media.
Recently, Paola was blasted for her COVID-19 response. She got a lot of heat after posting about masks, claiming that wearing them too long was not healthy among other things.
Going even further back, Paola has been known to call her haters out for being “jealous,” even telling them once to “wash your jealousy off on my abs.”
90 Day Fiance is currently on hiatus and is expected to return later this year.
WTF is WRONG with people?? Oh, my bad, same ones that think “rioting” is ok! Payola is spreading love and awareness and frankly, a picture of herself is PERFECT, I look at the posts as her standing in front of me, TALKING TO ME! And yes PEACEFUL protesting is ok, as it is our right, BUT when it becomes VIOLENT and hurts innocent people, it has NOTHING to do with “justice”…it’s just another excuse to let the violence out…WHAT has breaking into stores, like the GUCCI store have to do with JUSTICE??? NO ONE can honestly answer that with a sensible answer! ITS ALL ABOUT HATE! SMDH