During a time where Fantasia Barrino-Taylor should be focusing on promoting her new film “The Color Purple,” she’s instead having to unfortunately deal with alleged racial profiling from an Airbnb host.
In a post to X/Twitter and Instagram on Sunday, the “When I See U” explained that her stomach was “uneasy” after she, her son, and a handful of his friends were allegedly kicked out of the Airbnb she’d rented in order to show her son some love after being gone due to traveling for work.
“I don’t say much when people do me wrong, but I can’t stay quiet on how my family and I were just treated from a host with @Airbnb @airbnbhelp trying to kick my kids and I out at 12:00 midnight,” she wrote on X/Twitter. “The host accused us of having a party with loud noises outdoors because they saw balloons being dropped off and a game truck with no generator in the early part of the day. The amount of guests we reserved for are the amount of guest who stayed the night. They never said we weren’t allowed to have any company over!!”
She continued:
“It’s evident from the sayings on the wall, to the outdoor fire pit/jacuzzi and a well equipped game room in the garage/poker table that people Hosts parties and/or gatherings here on the lake often as there were weights with balloon ribbon left in the garage from a previous party at the house.
It’s evident to me this was racial profiling and the treatment we received was due to the color of our skin. I wanted my son to enjoy his friends (10-12) year old and make him feel special as I have been traveling for the last 35+ days promoting a movie I starred in. This time, I dare not stay quiet.
Further elaborating on Instagram, the “Free Yourself” artist said that they all were allegedly “abruptly asked to vacate” the property on the first night they stayed in the freezing rain at nearly six o’clock in the morning. She said that that they were kicked out after her son and his friends had enjoyed a night of “hot chocolate Sip & Paint” and were winding down to go to sleep, which caused some logistic problems and hurt as the desire to gain understanding nor happiness of the children were considered.
“We have lost our internal compass of Love! Love moves us to deeply consider, it shifts us out of places of sympathy where we can gain a real understanding through empathy,” she began in her post to Instagram. “When love is present, it overlooks your race, age, gender, profession, zip code and even your past. This, is what we teach our and exhibit before children, and this is what we wanted kids outside of our home to experience as well.”
She later concluded, “I didn’t deserve to look or feel like I let my son and the other kids down.”
Airbnb nor Fantasia have yet to make any other statements. The company did respond via X/Twitter asking her for more information so they can look into the incident.