Many would rather improve their position than fix the system.
Singer Trey Songz posted a video to his Instagram page on June 30th, featuring former Philadelphia 76ers cheerleader Annie Fuhrman Weiss alongside others in a limousine. Weiss, who is primarily featured, can be overheard mocking and threatening to physically harm Yahné Coleman, another former Sixers dancer, who is not present in the vehicle. Accompanying Weiss were what appeared to be only White individuals. The former cheerleader is herself a woman of color, though her ancestry is not clear — one would assume she is someone of East Asian descent or Latinx. Toward the end of this video, Weiss says the following:
“I will find you in whatever home project you live in. I will slum into the West side of Philly just to find your ass, beat the shit out of it, and then get you blacklisted from whatever club you think you can get into.”
Coleman is Black.
According to Coleman, who released a statement about the video (recorded in 2016), Weiss and other Sixers cheerleaders bullied her for three years while she was part of the group. Coleman furthermore claimed that when…
