At a time when even people who work in Hollywood are taking a bold pro-Hamas stance, perhaps inspired by Taylor Swift, I’m actually more concerned with whether black women are allowed to twerk in hot tubs.
It’s not enough that the Academy Awards gave a statue to an Aunt Jemima-looking black woman, thus robbing Sydney Sweeney of at least one of the awards she deserved this year. I need white women to remain in a hot tub while black women film twerk videos to post on TikTok.
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