Dear White Women If You Want To Be “Allies” Just Say You’re Sorry

Ezinne Ukoha
5 min readNov 3, 2018

I tried to stay out of the Rebel Wilson debacle, but after she refused to graciously admit defeat and resorted to issuing a weirdly bogus rebuttal, which created even more drama and expanded her roster of avid challengers — I found myself itching to say a few words.

First off, here’s a brief summary:

Since the theatrical debut of her “rom-com” is almost here, Wilson, who also co-stars in the Pitch Perfect franchise is doing the promotional tour, and it was during an appearance on the Ellen DeGeneres Show that things went left, and it has everything to do with this:

Once that tweet was released to the world, there was an expected uproar on Twitter, as Black women led the charge with swift alerts that rightfully schooled the White woman, who was exhibiting the damning symptoms that expose the infuriating blissfulness of her privilege.

It’s quite understandable how and why an Aussie-born and LA-based White actress would readily assume that she’s making history as the “first-ever plus-sized girl” to…

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