Awkwafina has mentioned goodbye to Twitter.
On Saturday (Feb. 5), Awkwafina, actual identify Nora Lum, revealed her first Twitter submit in two years. In a prolonged submit, she addressed the quite a few accusations that she used African American Vernacular English (AAVE) in her movie work and music. Some social media customers additionally alleged that she was appropriating their tradition.
“Nicely, I am going to see you in just a few years, Twitter – per my therapist,” Awkwafina wrote. “To my followers, thanks for persevering with to like and help somebody who needs they may very well be a greater individual for you. I apologize if I ever fell quick, in something I did. You are in my coronary heart all the time.”
The rationale that Awkwafina is leaving the platform is due to the fixed hate tweets made in the direction of her. She defined that she is “retiring from the ingrown toenail that’s Twitter. Not retiring from the rest, even when I needed to, and I did not drunkenly hit somebody with a shoehorn and now escaping as a fugitive. Additionally am avail on all different socials that do not inform you to kill your self!” At the moment, she is at present energetic on Instagram and Fb.
The 33-year-old comic famous that the African American neighborhood has “sociopolitical context to every thing” and that there’s a nice line between being “offensive and popular culture.” She added that she is aware of that there’s a downside with individuals who have “stolen, exploited and appropriated by the *dominant tradition* for financial acquire with out acknowledgment nor respect for the place these roots come from.”
“However as a non-black POC [sic], I stand by the truth that I’ll all the time hear and work tirelessly to grasp the historical past and context of AAVE, what’s deemed acceptable or backwards towards the progress of ANY and EVERY marginalized group,” Awkwafina mentioned. “However I have to emphasize: To mock, belittle, or to be unkind in any approach attainable on the expense of others is: Merely. Not. My. Nature. It’s by no means has, and it by no means was.”
Awkwafina ended her submit by stating that she desires to uplift communities. “We do that first by failing, studying, acknowledging, listening to and empathizing… And I’ll proceed, tirelessly, to do exactly that,” she concluded
Her new Twitter bio reads, “UNTIL 2024 ALL ACTIVITY IS MONITORED BY MY (superb) SOCIAL TEAM – HAPPY YEAR OF THE TIGER!”
Learn her full assertion, beneath.
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