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Over the weekend, reality star and underage former girlfriend of philandering rapper Tyga, Kylie Jenner, posted a picture of her new protective style to her Instagram account.
The snapshot garnered over 1 million likes and over 100,000 comments, including one from actress and budding activist Amandla Stenberg.
Stenberg even invoked the hashtag #whitegirlsdoitbetter, which started one way, and ended another way after Black Twitter had it’s way with it.
Kylie dismissed Amandla’s statements, writing: “@amandlastenberg Mad if I don’t, Mad if I do…. Go hang w Jaden or something.”
The comment was a reference to Jaden Smith, who Kylie Jenner was rumored to have been dating at one time. Amandla attended her prom with Jaden back in May,
prom. pic.twitter.com/BZVq7TDva8
— Amandla Stenberg (@amandlastenberg) May 30, 2015
This isn’t the first time Amandla Stenberg has broken down cultural appropriation. Earlier this year, a video titled “Don’t Cash Crop My Cornrows,” featuring Stenberg and a classmate talking about appropriation in the context of celebrities such as Miley Cyrus and Iggy Azealea went viral.
[…] for her supposed Instagram “feud” with Kylie Jenner. In reality, Stenberg had simply commented on Jenner’s Instagram picture about the exploitation of black culture, after Jenner posted a sultry selfie, sporting some […]
[…] definitely out there, many young people will ignore the message, or miss it altogether. For every Amandla, there’s a seriously confused high school senior who thinks that a KFC crown is a perfect […]