beezlikethat said: Care to play a games of good cop/bad cop? Could it be possible that KeKe Palmer is just being a christian and spreading the message from God instead of catering to her white fanbase?
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First off, this is NOT a game. Not even close. Yet another innocent UNARMED Black person (in a long line of unarmed innocent Black people) was shot dead by another ARMED White cop. So let’s dismiss the laughably foolish notion this is somehow comperable to a game ok?
Second, does being “a Christian” mean you can’t say the word racism? Does it mean refusing to talk about police brutality? Guess someone totes forgot to tell the REVEREND Martin Luther King, Jr about that😒
Now, let’s look at just one of Keke’s problematic “post-racial” tweets, which remember, she tweeted out after Mike Brown’s murder: “Why do we hate eachother, harm eachother, kill eachother? We are brothers & sisters y’all. All colors! Peace is the answer.”
"WE"? Who is this WE that is killing “each other”? 👀 Trayvon Martin, Renisha McBride, Jonathan Ferrell, Jordan Davis, Eric Garner, Mike Brown…all innocent and UNARMED Black people murdered by ARMED White men…and Keke’s brilliant response is that we—WE—need to be peaceful and WEeee need to start loving each other because we all bleed red?????
(h/t kidl3jin.tumblr.com)
Ms. Palmer is literally suggesting that “WE” Black people aren’t smiling hard enough each time we’re racially profiled and/or assaulted by armed White people
And if you look at all of her tweets since Mike Brown was murdered by the police…literally nowhere—NOWHERE—in any of them does Keke even mention the word racism. That’s a big problem. Not talking about racism doesn’t magically make it go away. Keke condescendingly quoted MLKjr, but she cannot say the words “racism” or “police brutality” like Dr. King did? Yes, that’s clearly indicative of her not wanting to offend or alienate any of her White fan base. Keke has made a very conscious decision by setting up a false equivalency of “WE are killing each other” and she is wrong, wrong, WRONG
As an underrepresented young Black woman who’s on the cusp of making it in Hollywood, I really want(ed?) her to be successful, but I’ll kick her to the curb without a second thought if this is the best she can do when she *chooses* to speak out about social justice. Her message of “Kumbaya” & “positivity” in the face of unrelenting police brutality and racism is a dangerous one because it reinforces White Supremacist ideas like respectability politics and the myth of meritocracy, and ultimately blames the victim for not smiling hard enough when they’re gunned down
Keke Palmer is a very talented actress and a beautiful Black woman, and I get you stanning for her. I get that. But…Keke is living in a bubble and needs to wake tf up. She needs to do a 180 & have a tall glass of #doBetter. Much better. Far too many people shed a lot of blood to give her the opportunity to be where she is now, and #newBlack celebs like her and Pharrell are spitting on their graves each time they engage in such buffoonery ignorance
Here’s some mandatory reading for you: The Problem With Keke Palmer’s “Compassion” For Michael Brown And Other Black Victims of Modern Day Lynching