Niki Ashton kowtows after Black Lives Matter accuses her of ‘cultural appropriation’ for Beyonce lyrics in campaign meme – The Rebel

Category: Black Lives Matter

NDP Leadership candidate Niki Ashton removed a meme from her social media accounts which included the lyrics to the left from the Beyonce song 'Irreplaceable'.

After posting the meme on Twitter, a Black Lives Matter Vancouver account confronted the NDP leadership hopeful. Appropriating Black culture is not intersectional feminism. Please delete your "to the left" FB post & address the issue, the account tweeted.

Ashton then removed the meme and responded by THANKING the radical BLM account. We removed it.Not our intention to appropriate. We're committed to a platform of racial justice+would appreciate ur feedback, she replied.

She then followed it up with a couple of other tweets. As noted I appreciate the msg from @BLM_Van. Showing respect is what building a movement is all about and I will not tolerate racism or hate speech directed at #BLM or any community.

As iPolitics points out, there was an immediate backlash to Ashton removing the tweet with some calling her to 'have a backbone'.

SOUND OFF: should she have deleted the tweet?

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