‘Ghostbusters’ star Leslie Jones exposes racist harassment on Twitter
On Monday afternoon, the Ghostbusters star and Saturday Night Live cast member tweeted that she was tired of receiving constant harassing messages with overt racist and sexist imagery. Jones announced that she was going to stop blocking her Twitter harassers so that their tweets and comments could be seen publicly in order to expose their offensive nature. Almost immediately, her fans sprung into action.
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Leslie Jones is facing an onslaught of racist harassment on Twitter and nobody is doing anything about it. Please follow her and support her and report the people she is asking you to report.
“When I was young, my dad always let me listen to comedy albums. I always knew about comedy, I always loved comedy.The day that I saw Whoopi Goldberg on television, I cried so hard, because I kept looking at my daddy going, ‘Oh my god. there’s somebody on TV that looks like me! She looks like me! Yay! I can be on TV! I can be on TV! I can do it! Look at her look at her! she looks just like me.‘”And she’s saying this to the child who saw Nichelle Nichols on Star Trek and ran screaming through the house, “There’s a black lady in tv and she’s not a maid!”
Pass it forward.
Christian Siriano designed Leslie Jones a stunning dress for her ‘Ghostbusters’ premiere
Last month, Leslie Jones tweeted that many designers were unwilling to make her a dress for the premiere of Ghostbusters. But the honor of designing the 48-year-old actress’ gown went to Christian Siriano, and oh how he came through. Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy were also in attendance at the premiere and representing the beauty of diverse body types.
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“Siriano got the job done in just over a week, torpedoing the flimsy excuses offered by Hollywood’s ateliers and proving that size is no obstacle to beauty.”
Oh look, your flimsy body shaming excuses didn’t hold up.
Also, thumbs up to Siriano being like “PICK ME PICK ME!” over Twitter. XD
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