Poor crooner Justin Timberlake. The backlash he has received for his comments over the BET acceptance speech by Jesse Williams has boiled way past fever levels, according to reports.
It all started innocently enough with the 34-year-old Greyâs Anatomy star taking his opportunity to deliver a powerful political message.
âThis invention called whiteness uses and abuses us, burying black people out of sight and out of mind while extracting our culture, our dollars, our entertainment like oil â black gold, ghettoizing and demeaning our creations, then stealing them, gentrifying our genius and then trying us on like costumes before discarding our bodies like rinds of strange fruit.â
It was his platform and his alone, weâd sayâŠ
But clearly that wasnât the case for Timberlake who immediately tweeted on the topic.
â@iJesseWilliams thoâŠ#Inspired #BET2016,â JT tweeted.
What immediately followed was far from the reaction the one-time NSync member wouldâve guessed.
To date, the media coverage has been ceaseless.
It has seemingly even peddled backwards to rehash that onetime Janet Jackson Super Bowl âwardrobe malfunctionâ performance, all those years ago, where he jumped ship like a punk-ass instead of manning up to the plate.
Us Mag quotes one twitter user responding with âso does this mean youâre going to stop appropriating our music and culture? And apologize to Janet too?â
In our opinion thatâs a WAY long OVERDUE apology!
Perhaps this will serve as a painful example of when to mind your own business and not try to hitch a publicity ride on the coat tails of someone attempting to make a statement about a peoples plight.
But who are we kidding, it wontâŠ
Thousands of tweets later and JT has gone and doubled back on his initial foot-in-mouth comment issuing an apology.
âI feel misunderstood,â JT wrote. âI responded to a specific tweet that wasnât meant to be a general response. I shouldnât have responded anywayâŠâ
âI apologize to anyone that felt I was out of turn. I have nothing but LOVE FOR YOU AND ALL OF US,â the singer concluded.
Justin Timberlake: Twitter Backlash Continues Poor crooner Justin Timberlake. The backlash he has received for his comments over the BET acceptance speech by Jesse Williams has boiled way past fever levels, according to reports.
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