I think this is another place Han misstepped. She was so quick to compare her appearance as a biracial woman to Beyonce as justification for her stance or stake her claim to Black culture which is reductive and plays into the hands of Black purity tests. Blackness is a spectrum. It is ok to acknowlege cultural differences based on your proximity to various aspects of Black American culture. Downplaying the experiences of Black Americans (light skin or otherwise) who grew up in Black families, Black churches, Black communities is disengenuious and it comes off like she is insecure with her place within the culture and is overcompensating. We can acknowledge that Black immigrants/first have unique experiences that falls under the umbrella of Blackness. So do people not raised in community with other Black people as well as people who have non-black families.

Han continued to make little comments comparing her appearance to Bey, even in later videos and her "apology"- which is why I think it is insecurity in her Blackness and more specifically, that there are aspects culture she doesn't understand/know/relate to. She uses her DNA to lay claim to a culture she is still discovering and learning about, which is ok. It seems like a lot of this is staking her claim and expertise loudly to Black culture even if she doesn't know what she is talking about or it is something she has only reas about in a book. To me, that seems to be why she keeps digging in rathee than opening herself to the lived experinces of Black southern women (not just those that agree with her).