Kim Kardashian West found herself in hot water after defending beauty blogger Jeffree Star, a makeup guru known for making CONSTANT racist remarks. Of course, she’s backtracking after getting thoroughly dragged, per usual. Get the story inside….
Sighs…where do we start?
OK! Kim Kardashian West is working our last reserved nerve with these artificial apologies. The “Keeping Up With The Kardashians” star has issued an apology after telling fans to “get over” racist remarks made by makeup guru, Jeffree Star.
So here’s how it all went down.
Kim was doing an online demonstration via SnapChat to promote her newest products from her KKW beauty line. Because what else is her Snapchat used for, right? Cool. Apparently, she was having issues with “swatching” her new powder contour kits and Jeffree Star called her out on it.
He tweeted:
Umm... Kim what is going on with those new swatches?? Looks like chalk pic.twitter.com/yCTZg2UhZu
— Jeffree Star (@JeffreeStar) August 14, 2017
I'm never a fan of finger swatches so I'll have to try the @kkwbeauty on my face for a final verdict but... doesn't look great so far
— Jeffree Star (@JeffreeStar) August 14, 2017
I'll review the@kkwbeauty powder contour kits and see the real tea myself but them swatches were rough y'all!!!
— Jeffree Star (@JeffreeStar) August 14, 2017
Fans started dragging the beauty blogger for criticizing Kim, after he was at her house and all up in her selfies for her first "contour stick" launch a little while ago. They even dug up old tweets where he uses the “N” word and said other racist remarks he has made.
Word got back to Kanye West’s wife about how her fans were bashing the beauty blogger, so she decided to defend him and tell folks to get over it and "let him live." BIG mistake.
“I see that my fans are totally hating on someone like Jeffree Star for being honest about my struggle swatches. But because of his remarks I’m learning," she said. "I get that it’s a serious deal if you say racial things but I do believe in people changing. And people that apologize, I will give them the benefit of the doubt. I know better than anyone that I hate when people bring up my past or mistakes that I’ve made in the past, so let him live."
"I welcome honest comments about my products and because of it, I’m swatching better now.”
She didn't do a video to defend black beauty guru Jackie Aina after she gave a non-shady, honest tutorial about her contour sticks, though. She simply didn't tag her (yet tagged everyone else) in those selfies we just talked about. But we digress...
Jefree responded:
The fact that someone like @KimKardashian can understand and take real feedback is what a REAL boss bitch does. Love you
— Jeffree Star (@JeffreeStar) August 15, 2017
The issue is that Jeffree hasn't just said racial things in the past, he's said them recently as well and refuses to ackonwledge that. His recent apology video only addrssed something he said 12 years ago (disrespectful racist comments toward black women).
So Kim trying to police what a black woman (or anyone really) can and can't be mad at is entitled and ridiculous. Because we all know her sensitive ass didn't "just get over" all the Ray J jokes and people criticizing how exactly she got to where she is.
As expected, folks started going in on her, so she had to offer up an apology. *rolls eyes *
In a now deleted Instagram video, Kim said:
“So I really wanted to apologize to you guys and my fans for defending a situation yesterday that I really didn’t know enough about. I just feel a bit naïve, and I do want to really apologize for me feeling like I had the right to say ‘get over it’ in a situation that involves racism.”
“I just don’t really feel like I have the right to speak on that, and I really, really, really am sorry,” she said. “From the bottom of my heart, I’ve always been about positivity and I’ve never been a negative person, so my whole thing was: ‘Hey guys, I don’t want to see negativity in my timeline or my mentions, let’s just move forward — let’s be positive and move past this.’ ”
“I really am sorry, and I just want to move forward and be positive,” she continued. “My last message is that I do believe that people are born to love and born with love, and they are taught to hate. So I have always had hopes that people can change and that people can learn to be better and do better, and learn to find that love again. So never give up hope. That is my message for the day and that’s always been what I’m trying to say. I believe in people changing, I believe in people just being better, and I’ll never give that up. I just want people to be positive.”
It's quite interesting how someone Forbes and her fans love to praise for being such a genius businesswoman consistently plays dumb about her bad and "naive" deicisons when it comes to these types of issues. You can't have it both ways.
Peep the video below:
Naïve about racism, but she has a black husband and biracial children? Oh. Seemingly loves being submersed in black culture, but is naive to racism? Oh.
To our readers: Spend your money wisely, sis.
Beauty vlogger Jackie Aina, who was recently called out of her name by Jeffree, dropped this:
Bloop!
Photo: Kim's IG
