Miss Controversial and loving it; Onika Maraj aka Nicki Minaj has come under fire for recording a video of a mentally ill woman and sharing it on her Instagram page.
In the video, Minaj, who is sitting in a car on a street in Miami, can be seen taping a White woman standing in front of a shop on the sidewalk. The woman shouts at Minaj that she doesn’t want her help and walks away with her drink and cigarette, cursing and telling Minaj to go away as the rapper laughs. Minaj continues to try and get the woman’s attention, laughing and asking what she did to upset her. Aside from a guy interrupting the correspondence to tell Minaj he’s a big fan, that’s about the gist of the video.
Granted, Minaj found the encounter comical and likely meant no harm in sharing it, but soon enough, some of her followers called her out for posting it. To those individuals, the woman seemed mentally ill, so there was nothing funny about videotaping her and posting it for the rapper’s nearly 69 million followers to see and share. Others, who claimed they live in Miami, stated that the woman is known in South Beach and is indeed mentally ill.
Now the Miami chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness is upset. They issued a statement to TMZ saying, “Nobody would make fun of a cancer patient, and mental illness is an illness like any other,” criticizing the star for using her influence in a somewhat negative way. Despite all of that, Minaj has yet to take down the video.
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