“Why are we being so meant to Julz? Why are we being so mean to white people right now? It’s a serious question. Why is that we’re allowed to be disrespectful and rude to everybody else, and when anybody returns that energy to us…..I don’t want to be treated like I can’t take a joke! White people have been mean to us in the past, yeah, but what are you going to do about it? Tell me what you’re going to do about that? There’s no answer, other than creating and understanding and keeping it moving. You have to bridge that gap.”
Daniel Caesar is getting canceled by fans after going off in an Instagram Live video on March 19. The Grammy winner started his video to defend YesJulz, an online personality who was recently slammed for making controversial comments about Scottie Beam and Karen Civil, two black women working in the hip-hop industry. YesJulz has been known to make racially insensitive comments in the past, and people were not happy that she name-dropped these women in a recent interview, but Daniel clearly did not take issue with it, and used it as a starting point for his rant about how ‘sensitive’ he thinks black people are.
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