It's wrong to call or reference a black person as an ape/monkey because of it's historical connotations, but honestly context matters in 2016. Cause so many people aren't even THINKING in that direction anymore. If we're going to beat racism, we have to be smarter than pointing fingers over petty offenses and focus on the actual issues.
He clearly worked on Lemonade (and gave us Beyonce's best song "All Night", bless!) so he definitely means no disrespect to Bey. The obvious answer is that he's mashing together two of the biggest cultural markers of 2016, Harambe and Beyonce. It's a (low level, non-clever) play on words. But miss me with the racism ********.
Stop defending his ass You can't just let white people get away with **** like this and be like "worry about the actual issues" this 'petty offense' just reinforces the actual issues. It's called a microaggression.
Guys I am the first to call out when someone is being way too sensitive and causing an uproar over something that they need to get over. I think SJWs have ruined so much humor.
But this definitely comes across very wrong Even if he didn't mean it that way, he should have seen how it comes across.
And if it was him really trying to say "haram" shouldn't there have been a space? I just did it on my twitter and there's enough character space for a space
Y'all trying to play brand new asking "how's that racist" and making up excuses for him. I don't stan for her and even I can see what he was trying to do.
ATRL not knowing anything about islamic culture / what haram is
he's clearly referencing Harambe, white straight guys have been obsessed with him since he died for some reason and have been making unfunny memes/jokes ever since. no one gives a **** about islamic culture or what haram is, it's not even the point in question here
Y'all are reaching so hard to defend him that you would go as far to say that an atheist man would make his Twitter handle ''Harambeyonce'' to say that Beyonce is forbidden in the name of Islam?