Why do I feel like it’s slightly racist to be a Taylor Swift fan?
— Melina Abdullah (@DocMellyMel) February 11, 2024
“White-supremacist conspiracy?”
A graduate of Howard University, Melina Abdullah describes herself as a “Hip Hop scholar, daughter of God, womanist, truth-teller, mama.” She made a scathing comment on the Kansas City Chiefs’ victory also. She wrote on X, “Why do I feel like this was some right-wing, white-supremacist conspiracy?!?! Booooooo!!!!”
Why do I feel like this was some right-wing, white-supremacist conspiracy?!?!
Booooooo!!!!#SuperBowl— Melina Abdullah (@DocMellyMel) February 12, 2024
Melina Abdullah
According to the ‘New York Post’, Abdullah took to Twitter in Twitter in June 2022 and wrote, “Attention white people… Please don’t ask if you can come to the cookout… #Juneteenth is freedom day for Black folks.”
Melina Abdullah joined the Black Lives Matter movement before that and became the co-founder of ‘Black Lives Matter-Los Angeles’.
Talking to Truth Dig, she said, “BLM was born on July 13, 2013, the day George Zimmerman was acquitted. She also said she went to Leimert Park and organized intuitively with her children and students whom she calls her students.
According to reporting by The College Fix, Abdullah said in 2017 at a press conference, ““You literally have a target on your back. That is what policing was founded on and that is what it evolved out of.”
FAQs:
Who is Melina Abdullah?
Melina Abdullah is a professor and chair of Pan-African Studies at California State University. Best known for her work for the Black Lives Matter movement, she describes herself as a “Hip Hop scholar, daughter of God, womanist, truth-teller, mama.”
Why is Melina Abdullah in the news now?
Melina Abdullah stirred controversy on the day of the Super Bowl LVIII, by saying that she feels like it’s slightly racist to be a Taylor Swift fan. She did not stop here, when someone said, that “literally everything is racist,” she responded, “Indeed!” Melina Abdullah took to social media platform X, formerly Twitter to express her view.
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