Jodie Turner-Smith has slated Kanye West, branding him ‘disgusting’ following his White Lives Matter stunt.
The Queen and Slim actress hit out on the ’embarrassing’ rapper after he brought on controversy together with his Yeezy vogue present in Paris on Monday (October 3) by sporting a ‘White Lives Matter’ t-shirt.
Following outrage on-line after the style present, Kanye solely doubled down on his stance and wrote on social media that the Black Lives Matter motion was a ‘rip-off.’
A number of celebrities have spoken out in opposition to Kanye’s actions, with Jodie urging the 45-year-old star to cease sharing his ‘poisonous’ opinions.
She wrote on her Instagram Story: ‘i assumed he stated he was making an attempt to deliver folks collectively??? pretend and disgusting and embarrassing.
‘please go contact some grass and cease sharing your poisonous ideas [sic].’
Jodie shared her message over a screenshot of one in every of Kanye’s personal posts, which learn: ‘WHEN I SAID WAR I MEANT WAR. [sic]’
The 36-year-old star went on to share different folks’s feedback about Kanye’s present.
One was a tweet from Jaden Smith, who had walked out of the present early.
He posted: ‘I Don’t Care Who’s It Is. If I Don’t Really feel The Message I’m Out. Black Lives Matter [sic]’
She then shared one from Vas J.Morgan, who slammed out at Kanye’s ‘horrendous’ resolution.
‘As one in every of his followers and largest cheerleaders, this can be very disappointing that Kanye West used his extremely massive platform at this time to set us as Black folks again centuries,’ he wrote.
He added that the difficulty was ‘far deeper’ than only a t-shirt.
The White Noise star additionally confirmed followers a remark from producer Van Lathan.
It learn: ‘We don’t want a reminder of the value of white lives. America is a shrine to the value of white folks. This message is reactionary to a message affirming the value of Black lives, which have by no means been value something in America.’
The Black Lives Matter motion themselves have spoken out on the incident, which noticed Black fashions stroll the runway on the present sporting the ‘White Lives Matter’ slogan.
BLM wrote of their assertion that phrases like ‘White Lives Matter’ and ‘All Lives Matter’ have ‘lengthy served as violent retorts to the Black Lives Matter motion.’
They stated they hope to ‘educate’ stars like Kanye, in addition to Candace Owens, who attended and supported the present, who imagine within the ‘White Lives Matter’ ideology.
His t-shirts aren’t the one cause why Kanye has come beneath fireplace as soon as once more, as mannequin Gigi Hadid additionally blasted the Heartless rapper after he mocked Vogue editor Gabriella Karefa-Johnson in response to her criticism of his present.
Commenting on one in every of Kanye’s Instagram posts, Gigi instructed Kanye that he ‘needs’ he had ‘a share of her mind,’ telling the American star that he ‘has no concept.’
Continuing to model Kanye ‘a bully and a joke,’ the mannequin later added that Kanye is ‘immature’ and warned her followers of how ‘harmful’ consistently giving him a platform to air his controversial views will be.
She wrote that she was ‘making an attempt very arduous to not give that man air time,’ however that ‘bullying somebody who criticises your work in your large platform is one other degree of ridiculousness.’
‘Should you can’t take it, don’t dish it. Should you can’t take criticism, particularly the good, nuanced, and type criticism that GKJ offered [after] yesterday’s present, then don’t put work out for public consumption,’ she stated.
‘That is immature bully behaviour. It’s behaviour that now we have all enabled by persevering with to have interaction with this work for the sake of vitality, internet site visitors, mere curiosity, or no matter it's. Sufficient. It’s not good. It’s not attention-grabbing. It’s not nuanced. It’s harmful.’
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