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Azealia Banks compared the LGBT community to “gay white KKK’s” in a recent tweet days after using an anti-gay slur against a flight attendant following an incident with another passenger.
“LGBT community (GGGG) are like the gay white KKK’s,” the rapper wrote in a since-deleted tweet screen grabbed by Billboard. “Get some pink hoods and unicorns and rally down rodeo drive.”
Banks made headlines after getting into an altercation with a fellow Delta Airlines passenger while attempting to exit the plane on a flight to LAX. Video shows the attendant intervening and Banks calling him a “fucking faggot.”
Banks took to Twitter to defend herself after the backlash.
If I am to be a part of an LGBT community I want to be in it with people who aren’t so weak or so easily moved ya know.
— AZEALIABANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) September 28, 2015
Because all the time spent being mad at word could’ve been used to help people who really need the help!
— AZEALIABANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) September 28, 2015
I’m not a weak bitch, being called a dyke or a nigger does absolutely nothing to move me.
— AZEALIABANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) September 28, 2015
So yes! You CAN call me a nigger and I won’t get mad! …. I’d be like “That’s all you got???”
— AZEALIABANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) September 28, 2015
You boys gotta toughen up!!! Don’t be so weak !!! If one word can put your entire community in distress you’re DOOMED. LOL
— AZEALIABANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) September 28, 2015
Words are not tangible things. You all CHOSE to get upset. Remember… Offense is only TAKEN, it is never given.
— AZEALIABANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) September 28, 2015
Banks, who identifies as bisexual and has a history of creating controversy by using the word “faggot,” took issue with the focus on her words and not on what happened to her on the plane.
No one cares that I was ASSAULTED. Had my property held against my will. Please don’t ever mention my name and lgbt again.
— AZEALIABANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) September 23, 2015
I’m DONE having my womanhood questioned and disrespected by you idiots. Find someone else. I’m leaving and I’m taking the #kunts with me.
— AZEALIABANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) September 23, 2015
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