TV presenter Faustina ‘Fuzzy’ Agolley has accused her former Video Hits co-star Axle Whitehead of snubbing the Black Lives Matter movement in a tense exchange on Instagram.
Axle, 39, recently posted a yellow tile on his Instagram page and included the hashtag #AsianLivesMatter.
His post came after social media users uploaded a black tile on Instagram to show solidarity with African Americans protesting police brutality in the United States.
Bad blood: TV presenter Faustina ‘Fuzzy’ Agolley has accused her former Video Hits co-star Axle Whitehead of snubbing the Black Lives Matter movement in a tense exchange on Instagram. Pictured at the 2006 Nickelodeon Australian Kids’ Choice Awards in Sydney
Fuzzy, 36, who is half Ghanaian and half Chinese, called Axle out for his post, branding it insensitive.
Axle has since deleted his post from Instagram, but Fuzzy shared a series of screenshots from a direct message conversation they’d had on Instagram Stories on Wednesday.
Daily Mail Australia cannot republish some of the screenshots for legal reasons.
Faux pas? Axle recently posted a yellow tile on his Instagram page and included the hashtag #AsianLivesMatter. His post came after social media users uploaded a black tile on Instagram to show solidarity with African Americans protesting police brutality in the United States
In their conversation, Axle claimed his post was ‘a joke’, before explaining ‘an Asian person was killed in the riots today’.
‘This is the dumbest f**king reply,’ she responded in part.
Axle then supposedly blocked Fuzzy on Instagram after she’d called him out for his inflammatory post.
Taking offence: Fuzzy, who is half Ghanaian and half Chinese, called Axle out for his post, branding it insensitive
She also alleged he’d posted ‘a false stat from Twitter about white men killed by U.S. police more than any other race’.
She added: ‘No mention of black deaths. No mention of mass incarceration of BLACK PEOPLE.
‘And if we’re going to get local, cause let’s be real, Axle is a white Australian who lives in Australia, no mention of how his race is pretty f**king sweet here.’
Strong message: Fuzzy ended her scathing posts with a message to her former colleague, telling him not to speak to her until he has educated himself on racial inequality
Fuzzy ended her scathing posts with a message to her former colleague, telling him not to speak to her until he has educated himself on racial inequality.
‘Axle been down with you for a while but thank you for showing me who you are,’ she commented.
‘And if you ever wanna communicate, take a couple of years to get through the reading list circulating about Black lives and Asian lives before ever getting in contact again.’
Making light of the situation: In their conversation, Axle claimed his post was ‘a joke’, before explaining ‘an Asian person was killed in the riots today’
Speaking to The Daily Telegraph on Thursday, Axle said he could not ‘support a violent hypocritical movement’ and insisted that ‘all lives matter. Period.’
‘My sympathy goes to George Floyd and his family but to say Black Lives Matter as people loot and burn minority-owned businesses is absurd,’ he added.
Meanwhile, Fuzzy told The Daily Telegraph she was disappointed with Axle’s stance on the issue.
Angry: Fuzzy told The Daily Telegraph she was disappointed with Axle’s stance on the issue
‘He took a deliberate choice not to get behind black lives and take a shot at Asians. I called him in and he didn’t care about what he did, he only cared about being called on it,’ she said.
Protests have been widespread across the United States after African American man George Floyd died in police custody in Minneapolis on May 25.
Before his death, he had been forcefully restrained by a white police officer who has since been charged with second-degree murder.
Daily Mail Australia has contacted both Axle and Fuzzy for comment.
Brutality: Riots have erupted in the U.S. after George Floyd, an unarmed black man, died in Minneapolis after a white police officer pressed his knee against his neck for eight minutes