“Someone says, ‘I miss your old black hair. Oh, really? Do you miss Barack Obama as well? Oh, OK. Times change. Bye! See you guys later.”
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Katy Perry made this offhand remark during a recent Instagram Live, and now the Internet is demanding answers.
I'm sure we can all do without @katyperry right ??? #Loser pic.twitter.com/r9bQcuaCBi
— DJ SCREAM (@DJSCREAM) April 30, 2017
The Twitter minions are particularly displeased:
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Katy Perry really fucking tried it with that white ass joke. What does Barack Obama have to do with your dry ass white hair?
— ????? ?? (@MJFINESSELOVER) April 30, 2017
https://twitter.com/slitherswift/status/858700597142401025?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2017%2F05%2F01%2Fentertainment%2Fkaty-perry-obama-joke%2Findex.html
https://twitter.com/dat_leo_mYcAh/status/859022633253429248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2017%2F05%2F01%2Fentertainment%2Fkaty-perry-obama-joke%2Findex.html
https://twitter.com/faggerella/status/858670384467652609?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2017%2F05%2F01%2Fentertainment%2Fkaty-perry-obama-joke%2Findex.html
https://twitter.com/dat_leo_mYcAh/status/859022633253429248
katy perry compared barack obama to her "old black hair"
career cancelled.https://t.co/Wk3u12nlYd
— kenny (@imkennybrian) April 30, 2017
https://twitter.com/AlexMLeo/status/858678241120399360
Others think the complaints are tone-deaf and overreaching:
y'all twisted this up. she wants Obama back but can't have him back…the same way people want her old hair & won't get it back b/c its gone
— Jessica (@Jes00sica) May 1, 2017
Katy Perry meant she wants Obama back and can't have him same way ppl want her black hair and won't get it back … Christ ppl lol
— Wally Szczerbiak? (@findingwhitney) April 30, 2017
h/t: CNN
Xzamilloh
Twitter outrage isn’t a thing… you can string together any tweets and say there’s a controversy, because no matter what is said, there will be people offended. I refuse, absolutely refuse, to let this nonsense be treated as if she was being racist. It wasn’t even funny, and just plain stupid, and her new hair is awful, but she was for Obama just like I was (compared to Romney), and made a joke. I can’t.
Mo Bro
More evidence that snowflakes in a Twitter blizzard will easily melt.
Captain Obvious
Wait Katy Perry is still around?
Blackceo
I think this was a huge overreaction. Katy Perry is a big Obama fan. This is where I agree with Bill Maher about liberals being too damn sensitive about everything all the time. Save the outrage for the shit that really matters. It was just a lame ass joke if anything. Sit down children.
Jack Meoff
She should only open her mouth to sing.
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
“white ass joke”
No racist microagression detected *there* ! The very thought! Silly me.
Orgoglio Masch
How are they linking the statement to race? Just because her hair was black and Obama is (half) black? Really??? It was a corny political joke, but I see no racial undertones. Although, doesn’t that technically make her new short, blonde style Donald Trump?