Αυτή τη φορά ανέβασε μια φωτογραφία όπου ποζάρει με το σέξι μαύρο μαγιό της στην πισίνα του σπιτιού της-αξίας 2.7 εκατ.
δολαρίων. Φυσικά δεν παρέλειψε να ανεβάσει και μία της πίσω … όψης, όπου βέβαια, σκύβει.
Την ίδια ώρα η νεαρή σύντροφος του Τζέιντεν Σμιθ, η Τσέλσι Κλαρκ κατηγορεί την Τζένερ ότι την παρακολουθεί και δέχεται απειλητικά μηνύματα. Η Τζένερ, που έβγαινε με τον Σμιθ για τρία χρόνια, αρνείται τις κατηγορίες.
Η μικρή αντιγράφει τα βήματα της Κιμ Καρντάσιαν
Η Κάιλι Τζένερ όταν έβγαινε (αγνώριστη) με τον Τζέιντεν Σμιθ
Με τον νέο της σύντροφο, Tyga
Kylie Jenner’s N-Word Controversy: The Problem with White Friends
On the heels of the season premiere of black-ish, which addressed the word and who “gets” to use it, Kylie “Cornrows” Jenner has been thrust into controversy involving an inflammatory cake. Jenner hosted a party for her best friend Jordyn Woods’ 18th birthday this Wednesday where a cake was carted out with the message, “Happy Birthday Nigga.” Jenner says she wasn’t responsible for the cake and posted a photo on Instagram of an inoffensive cake along with the caption: “My cute little cake to Jordyn the other day. The other one was not my gift.”
Now, I don’t know who actually sent Woods that N-word cake—that Kylie proudly snapchatted to her millions of followers—but she didn’t seem at all offended by any of this. Quite the contrary, she seemed to love it, images and videos of it to her various social media accounts. The moment uncomfortably echoed a moment from this week’s black-ish premiere when eldest Johnson daughter Zoey explained to her father that she has white friends who use the N-word regularly and it’s not a big deal to her peers. In an era of “New Blacks” like Richard Sherman spouting respectability any time they’re pressed on matters of race and “down” white pop stars becoming more and more obnoxious in their dismissals of racial issues, there is more need than ever for young people to address an ever-growing problem in the fight against racism.
Yes. Read that again. I know this is hard.
Those white best friends who love to remind you of how they aren’t racist and who rap along to every utterance of the N-word in Young Thug songs and who love that your friendship never requires that they acknowledge your blackness in any way except to crack the occasional joke or compliment you on your hair. You and your white best friends don’t represent a new, racially-unfettered generation committed to looking past surface differences to forge a bright new colorblind society. No, this is just a case of deep cultural denial and young people shouldn’t allow themselves to be lulled into that kind of denial.
If there is a generation of young people who are willfully ignorant about race issues, it’s because they were raised to believe that “color-blindedness” is a virtue. Somehow, Americans came out of the Civil Rights era believing that the best way to address racism was to just decide that it was over. A country that was all-too-eager to criminalize every facet of drug culture to the point of ludicrousness suddenly decided that its longest-running social disease could be vanquished by positive thinking. As white flight and rezoning led to inner cities being ravaged by economic blight and racially-skewed drug laws resulted in an entire generation of black and Latino youth carted off to prison, it seems a large portion of white America deluded itself into believing that change had come.
The faux naiveté that allows an individual to believe in “not seeing color” as a realistic or even desired objective in the push for racial equality also informs the petulance of “well, if you can say the word, why can’t I?” It presupposes that there are no cultural parameters that can be set by those within a culture who are at the most risk of being victimized. In essence, when you represent the more privileged societal position, you don’t get to decide how those at a social disadvantage apply their cultural mores.
So, no—you can’t fucking say it and it’s not your place to decide.
Your white friends shouldn’t need to use the N-word. Part of having a “diverse” set of friends is understanding those friends. Seeing your blackness is a part of seeing you and respecting you. For too many young millennials who live and socialize in mixed circles, it’s becoming more and more fashionable to pretend that having your white friends’ company means so much that those white friends are okay ignoring that very significant part of your identity. You don’t mute anyone you consider to be a friend. And we can no longer afford to believe “color-blindedness” is an admirable quality—because no one is truly colorblind. And they shouldn’t be. And staying away from using the N-word isn’t hard when you understand the weight behind the word. But too many white Americans don’t want to decenter themselves and accept that it’s not their call to make. So I believe this country has to continue to have these conversations.
And that begins with some hard conversations between you and your white friends.
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