Social media stays in an uproar after Kanye West‘s Yeezy Paris Style Week Present on Monday (October 3) noticed the controversial rapper unveil a brand new line of customized tee shirts with the phrase “White Lives Matter” printed on them.
Rocked by fellow celebrities Candace Owens, Selah Marley (daughter of Lauryn Hill and Bob Marley‘s son Rohan), and others, the shirts garnered fairly the backlash regardless of West’s try to classify them as “revolutionary artwork.”
Hours after the GRAMMY winner took to the web to defend the Yeezy tees as a response to the “rip-off” that was the Black Lives Matter motion (as we reported right here), Selah has executed the identical.
Look inside to see how she’s hitting again at critics.
Taking to Instagram Tuesday evening (October 4), Selah shared an announcement in response to the backlash she’s obtained for carrying the White Dwell Issues attire.
“The previous 24 hours as allowed me to understand that the majority of yall are caught in a hive mentality,” she started the publish. “You do what the group tells you to do and suppose what the group tells you to suppose. Witnessing somebody break away from ‘the agenda’ sends you all into such a panic that you’ll do no matter it takes to drive them again into the field that you simply really feel they need to exist in.”
Later within the story publish she instructed the outrage has bordered on “bullying,” an motion she doesn’t intend to tolerate.
“You can not bully me, manipulate me, or coax me into silence. Nor will you bully me into being who I don’t wish to be,” she stated. “I don’t care what number of tweets you make, DMs you ship, or articles you write.”
Concluding that the choice to put on the shirt was executed with “deep thought and intention,” Selah instructed she is going to communicate extra on the subject at a later time.
Her feedback come amid continued criticism for her alignment with West’s beliefs – a stark distinction from the messages of Black empowerment her GRAMMY-winning mom and late grandfather proclaimed over their careers and lives.
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At writing, Hill has not spoken out about her daughter’s antics.
