Karrine Steffans Pulls a Porsha Stewart

Karrine Steffans separates herself from African Americans by claiming  she has no slave lineage because she was born in the Caribbean...

In an interview with 106 KMEL Karrine explains, 

"I think people forget, I’m an islander. I’m not African American. I don’t have African American struggles. I just don’t. I don’t have the same history. So, and I’m not even tryna be facetious…There’s a serious mind state that comes with being black in America. And being a black American. And the history that comes with that. And all things that are passed down from generation to generation…Shame. Shame sexually. Sexually shaming. Shame on the female gender. Shame just all kinds of shame. And abuse. And belittling and all those things that come from post-slavery."

"I don’t have slavery in my family so and a lot of islanders don’t, so our mind state is different. We see things different and we’re not ashamed of our bodies. We have Carnival for Christ’s sake….That’s how we live our lives. We go to the beach; we swim naked. It’s just different. Island girls just do it better and that’s just a fact."

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For Karrine, and everyone else unaware, St. Thomas, where Karrine was born and raised, was home to a booming and brutal African slave trade founded by the Danish in 1673.

Slavery was not abolished in St. Thomas until 1807.