Colorism is alive and in 2025 after Mishawnna Bynum and her friend Angel Chima-Orji were refused entry to Miami nightclub, Club Mona, in late June after visiting the city from out of town. In her Tik Tok video recapping the initial occurrence, Bynum and her friends express their disbelief at the way they were treated.
“Do you know that the club told me that I’m too dark, and too thick […] what’s really going on Miami?” Bynum says in the video alongside her friend and another young lady who they’d met that evening who was also denied entry.
Since posting the video, it has amassed over 2.5M views of Tik Tok and 934K on Instagram where other women have been joining in on the conversation regarding their negative experiences not only with Club Mona, but with Miami nightlife as a whole. Much of Miami’s colorism and body type discrimination accusations stem from favoritism of women who are Latina or white. Club Mona, like many other clubs mentioned throughout the online discussion on this issue, has taken on a stance that deeply embodies discrimination. Miami-Dade County in particular has received public scrutiny from people across the internet and beyond alleging prejudice, and in some cases overt racism…