A California professor and Black Lives Matter organizer suggested it’s “slightly racist” to be a Taylor Swift fan.
“Why do I feel like it’s slightly racist to be a Taylor Swift fan?” Melina Abdullah posted to X on Super Bowl Sunday.
According to her social media bio, Abdullah teaches Pan-African Studies at Cal State University Los Angeles, and is a Black Lives Matter organizer, pan-Africanist, hip hop scholar, daughter of God, “womanist, truth-teller and mama.”
She also co-founded BLM’s Los Angeles chapter and is a co-director of the activist wing of the advocacy organization, Black Lives Matter Grassroots.
When one user asked her what she meant with the Swift comment, she responded, “I said FEEL, not think. Kind of like that feeling I get when there are too many American flags.”
Another person commented that “literally everything is racist,” Abdullah replied, “Indeed!”
If that wasn’t enough, Abdullah wrote a follow-up post after Swift’s boyfriend, Travis Kelce, and the Kansas City Chiefs were crowned Super Bowl champions.
“Why do I feel like this was some right-wing, white-supremacist conspiracy?!?! Booooooo!!!! #SuperBowl.”
That obviously didn’t sit well with people on X, but Abdullah was unfazed.
“Folks think they’re attacking me by asking why I think everything is racist … I’m not offended,” she wrote.
“Virtually everything is racist,” she added in another post.
Abdullah isn’t new to writing controversial posts on social media.
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“Attention white people… Please don’t ask if you can come to the cookout,” she wrote.
“#Juneteenth is freedom day for Black folks. It should be #Reparations day for white folks.”
“Every time I go to Apple at The Grove, they act like they don’t want to or can’t help us,” she wrote. “They won’t get another of these Black dollars. #ShoppingWhileBlack.”
Abdullah shared her feelings about the political commentator, calling him a “neo-KKK member” and “part of the conversation about ‘anti-blackness.’”