Justin Timberlake Dragged Over BET Awards Tweet: ‘Stop Appropriating Our Music and Culture’

 Williams’s wide-ranging speech paid respect to the black women “who have spent their lives nurturing everyone before themselves—we can and will do better for you”; name-checked those whose lives were lost in the struggle for racial equality, from Tamir Rice and Eric Garner to Rekia Boyd and Sandra Bland; and it took on how “this invention called whiteness uses and abuses us, burying black people out of sight and out of mind while extracting our culture, our dollars, our entertainment like oil—black gold, ghettoizing and demeaning our creations then stealing them, gentrifying our genius and then trying us on like costumes before discarding our bodies like rinds of strange fruit.”

Enter Justin Timberlake, he of “SexyBack” fame, who tweeted the following:

This ignited Black Twitter, which began dragging Timberlake for his perceived hypocrisy as a prominent artist who’s appropriated considerably from black culture yet been relatively quiet concerning the Black Lives Matter movement, threw Janet Jackson under the bus after exposing her breast during their Super Bowl performance, and used to dress like this.

Timberlake then responded to a replier going by Ernest Owens, who tweeted: “So does this mean you’re going to stop appropriating our music and culture? And apologize to Janet too,” in fairly dismissive fashion—and one that sounded an awful lot like the sorry rationale of an “All Lives Matter”-type:

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