LOVE Island's Yewande Biala has today taken another swipe at rival Lucie Donlan, saying that mis-pronouncing her name is "racist and malicious".
It all started earlier this week when the Irish scientist-and-reality star, 25, said she had to “correct” Lucie on how she said her name “multiple times”.
Now, Yewande has spoken again about the issue in a column for The Independent. She wrote: "There is a longstanding history of forced assimilation as a way to maintain the power structure. "Dominant groups dismissing certain names as “too hard” is tied to racism and other forms of oppression.
She also said: "When someone doesn't take the time to learn the proper way to pronounce another person's name, or worse – intentionally mocks it for being.
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