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sapphiredoves:

So now not only is Leslie Jones being slutshamed on the World Wide Web for having nude photos in her possession, but her body is being treated as though it was never something to celebrate. What’s wrong with it? Too much melanin for your eyes to handle? She too dark to be desirable? When Jennifer Lawrence’s nudes got leaked, y’all threw a party! Y’all praised the iCloud gods y’all were blessed to see such a thing while simultaneously running to her defense and preaching about how it’s not right to judge or shame her for having naked photos of herself because “she’s a gorgeous, famous actress, why wouldn’t she?”

But when Leslie Jones is hacked and her nude photos are leaked, you question why she would ever want to keep photographic evidence of her body, like its some kind of dirty thing the world should never have to come across or you say if she never took the photos in the first place, she wouldn’t have this problem. Funny how Jennifer Lawrence and the tons of other White female celebs who had their nudes leaked weren’t met with the same unforgiving rhetoric and logic. If she bleached her skin* or tracked a mile of Brazilian hair to her scalp, would you suddenly defend her? Because she chose to look nothing like White consumer America, suddenly she asked for it. Looks like Black women always ask for it in this country, even when we never got to open our mouths. Even when we are begging to be left in one piece somehow we are still asking to be ostracized in front of the general public just by existing.

Leslie Jones has NOTHING to apologize for.
Leslie Jones has NOTHING to be ashamed of.
Leslie Jones is BEAUTIFUL.
Leslie Jones is unapologetically BLACK and America hates her for it.

White Feminism has made it well known that if you are not making yourself palatable for White consumption, or disowning your Blackness altogether, they will not fight for you, they will not say your name with the same urgency as their own or another White one, or at all.

Say that! 👏🏾

This and back to the other point: her life has been attacked – I can only imagine what those WOC without her success and fame go through.  This is the ugliness of human nature. Stand up to it.  Knock it down when it shows its face.  Love and kindness are the strongest weapons we have.  

What happened to Leslie Jones – and how many other women like her – are acts of terrorism.  Empowered racists seeking to destroy lives.  Do not lose sight of that.