Amber Heard Accused of Twitter Racism
by EG
Justice League alum Amber Heard was trying to show support for immigrants targeted by Donald Trump's policies, but she ended up sounding just a little bit racist. Heard tweeted on Tuesday about an ICE enforcement action, and in her haste to be anti-ICE, she revealed what some called a racist point of view. Read on for details.
Via Us Weekly.
Feeling the heat. Amber Heard is trying to explain what some have criticized as a “racist” tweet.
“With this human rights crisis being so politicized, it is hard to make a simple statement w/out it being used to distract from the real issues,” she tweeted on Tuesday, July 3. “Its hard for everyone to not be negatively affected by this subject n some way.”
Her message was accompanied by a black-and-white photo of a little girl in a T-shirt that read: “Birth place: Earth; Race: Human; Politics; Freedom.”
Backlash against the 32-year-old actress began after she tweeted about an ICE checkpoint in the early morning hours of Tuesday. In the since-deleted tweet, she wrote, according to NBC Philadelphia, “Just heard there’s an ICE checkpoint in hollywood, a few blocks from where I live. Everyone better give their housekeepers, nannies and landscapers a ride home tonight.”
So you deleted your tweet showing how racist you are. Here it is for everyone to see. #amberheard pic.twitter.com/yxxXfmZJmh
— Sarah 🎩 (@Ainamzas) July 3, 2018
She followed that with: “Checkpoints on your home streets…. Is this the ‘great’ America we’re aiming for? Raids, fences and police-state like checkpoints don’t feel like the ‘land of the free’ our immigrant ancestors built.”
Followers slammed her for seemingly implying “housekeepers, nannies and landscapers” are illegal immigrants, and responded with screengrabs of her first tweet.
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