Tina Knowles is sick of the criticism surrounding Beyoncé’s appearance at the premiere of her concert film Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé. On Tuesday, Knowles took to Instagram to make her feelings known, explaining in a lengthy note why she is “fed up” with allegations that the performer lightened her skin.

At the Los Angeles premiere of her concert film Renaissance on Saturday, Bey stepped out sporting a floor-length silver Versace dress, platinum blonde hair, silver shoes, and silver evening gloves, a vision to match the disco-spangled vibe of her Renaissance World Tour and the silver-plated dress code she requested of fans. Alongside her statement, Knowles shared a video montage of her daughter set to Beyoncé’s “Brown Skin Girl,” a song from the soundtrack album she produced as a companion to 2019’s The Lion King; Knowles said she “decided to post it after seeing all of the stupid ignorant self, hating racist statements about her, lightening her skin, and wearing platinum hair wanting to be white.” She admitted that her daughter “is going to be pissed at me for doing this, but I am fed up!” 

“She does a film, called the renaissance, where the whole theme is silver with silver hair, a silver carpet, and suggested silver attire and you bozos decide that she’s trying to be a white woman and is bleaching her skin?” Knowles wrote before referencing one of the singer’s tracks to defend the look. “How sad is it that some of her own people continue the stupid narrative with hate and jealousy. Duh, she wore silver hair to match her silver dress as a fashion statement clown. ALIEN Superstar duh!”

She also wrote that a reporter had reached out to Neal Farinah, Beyoncé’s hairstylist, for comment about the allegations, something “that made, my blood boil, that this white woman felt so entitled to discuss her blackness.”

Knowles pointed out that it’s nothing new for Black women to wear platinum hair, citing the “Etta James days.” 

“I am sick and tired of people attacking her,” Knowles wrote. “Every time she does something that she works her ass off for and is a statement of her work ethic, talent and resilience. Here you sad little haters come out the woodwork. Jealousy and racism, sexism, double standards, you perpetuate those things. Instead of celebrating a sister or just ignoring if you don’t like her.”

Indeed, “Brown Skin Girl,” the track in the video accompanying Knowles’s statement, features Bey, her daughter Blue Ivy, Wizkid, and Saint Jhn celebrating Black women with lyrics such as: “There’s complexities in complexion / But your skin, it glow like diamonds / Pigment like the earth, you be giving birth / To everything alive, baby, know your worth / I love everything about you, from your nappy curls / To every single curve, your body natural.” 

In a documentary about the making of the album The Lion King: The Gift, Beyoncé said she wanted the song to be an anthem of confidence for young Black women. “When I see fathers singing ‘Brown Skin Girl’ to their daughters, to know that my daughter can have the same opportunities and feel confident and feel like she doesn’t have to take her braids down and she can comb her Afro out and she can glisten in her brown skin—that is why I make music,” she said.

Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé hits theaters Friday. 

A representative for Beyoncé did not immediately respond to Vanity Fair’s request for comment.