Rapper Azealia Banks has attacked women participating in the women’s marches around the country on Saturday, saying they fell for “white feminist tricks” and should stop trying to “stick it to the man.”
In several separate Instagram posts on Sunday, Banks shared her thoughts about the women’s marches over the weekend that attracted more than a million activists worldwide. She asked where the feminists were when black people were shot last year.
“Why do women fall for these white feminist tricks all the time? Now that some white dude has taken office who simply said something silly about grabbing a p**** they want to march in the streets under the guise of ‘standing up for human freedom.’ But where the f*** where they when black folk were getting shot down every day last year?? Why weren’t they standing up for Human Freedoms then?” she wrote in a now-deleted post.
The rapper then turned her attention to feminism, which she called “dangerous” because it compares women to men. “Feminism is dangerous in general because it’s so deeply rooted in comparing women to men. The feminist conversation always goes back to men,” she said.
“Man and woman are not equal and they never will be because we’re not supposed to! Feminism needs to spend much more time talking to itself in the mirror than ‘sticking it to the man.'”
Banks also urged people to relax about the recent election, writing: “I just feel like the entire country is having one big anxiety attack and I just would like to chill. Just chill … People go in on me about complaining all the time but I’m not the mad one at all.”