Tina Knowles has spoken out in defense of her family via PEOPLE.
As Kanye West dropped a disturbing post about Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s 7½-year-old twins Rumi and Sir to X on March 18, Tina posted to Instagram the following day with a video response.
West wrote in his since-deleted post, “WAIT HAS ANYONE EVER SEEN JAY Z AND BEYONCES YOUNGER KIDS,” before questioning Rumi and Sir’s mental capacity using offensive language.
Tina shared a video clip on Instagram. “So I’m on the set of a photoshoot today for my book, and I wanted to tell you a corny joke,” she said in the clip. “What happens when a snowman throws a tantrum? He has a meltdown. Y’all know that’s funny.”
In a since-edited caption on the post, as reported by TMZ and the New York Post’s Page Six, she opened up against “ignorance and evil” — seemingly in direct response to West’s words about her grandchildren.
“It’s hard to remain positive and classy in the face of ignorance and evil. But I know that no weapon formed against me or my family shall prosper,” she reportedly wrote.
“This battle is not mine, but the Lord’s, I know that God has got this,” added Tina, per the outlets.
West took down his tweet about Rumi and Sir, according to Page Six, the “Monster” rapper explained he did so due to the “possibility” of his X account getting shut down. The outlet reported he later admitted to feeling “bad” about the initial post.
West who has a history of making repeated antisemitic comments and he has again shared numerous antisemitic and homophobic posts to his X account.
Late last week, Tina made an appeared at the In Charge & The Power of Kindness summit in New York City and spoke about some of the values she worked to instill in her daughters, Beyoncé and Solange.
“One thing I taught them was that family comes first. Your children and husband come first. And I think they learned to be strong and resilient through hard times,” she said. “I’ve had many many hard times. And just to be their true selves and not to be fake or phony. I’ve been preaching that since they were kids.”
Tina is currently gearing up to release her memoir, Matriarch, in April. “I thought it was time to tell my own story,” she said at the summit. “There are so many misconceptions about my family, and I didn’t want anyone else to tell our story. I wanted to tell it myself.”
