It’s very common for celebrities to receive heat from their haters but where do these celebrities draw the line?
For our favorite Saturday Night Live comedian, Leslie Jones, the line gets drawn at racism and sexism.
Jones recently exposed all the disrespect she’s been receiving, for the Twitter world to see:
You know I’m gonna stop blocking so y’all can go through my feed yourself and see the bs. You won’t believe the evil. It’s fucking scary
— Leslie Jones (@Lesdoggg) July 18, 2016
Jones later revealed a countless number of mentioned tweets, claiming that they involved disrespectful and racist comparisons to apes like Harambe, the gorilla killed in May by zookeepers at the Cincinnati Zoo:
Exposing I hope y’all go after them like they going after me pic.twitter.com/ojK5FdIA0H
— Leslie Jones (@Lesdoggg) July 18, 2016
— Leslie Jones (@Lesdoggg) July 18, 2016
Comparing black people to gorillas can be traced back to the olden days where our very own were drawn with apelike facial features. Whites would also dress in “black face” to ridicule us even more.Despite this knowledge, it seems like there are some who continue to use these types of jokes to hinder black people, Jones included:
Stop letting g people get away with being ignorant. You stupid people to shut up. Tell them to shut up real talk. Say something.
— Leslie Jones (@Lesdoggg) July 19, 2016
Other celebrities quickly joined this bandwagon to proudly stand up for her like we all should:
Stand with @Lesdoggg #loveforlesliej she is an inspiration and a legend in the making pic.twitter.com/dqotlPAETd
— Margaret Cho (@margaretcho) July 18, 2016
Leslie Jones is one of the greatest people I know. Any personal attacks against her are attacks against us all. #LoveForLeslieJ@Lesdoggg
— Paul Feig (@paulfeig) July 18, 2016
TELL US: If you were Leslie, would you have exposed the haters or would you have dusted your shoulder off? We want to know!