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Black Twitter Loses It When Kim Kardashian Dressed Up As Aaliyah For Halloween

Posted On : October 30, 2017

We’re big fans of everyone’s beloved baby girl, Aaliyah. She’s been gone for over 16 years, and in her short time, we’ve honored her music and the musical impact that she’s made on our lives. So, now that Halloween is no longer about goons and goblins, it’s all about costumes, pretty dress up, and the most outlandish costumes…you can now be ANYONE on Halloween.

So why did Kim Kardashian decide to dress up like Aaliyah? Not sure…and it’s baffling to many.

Black Twitter Is Protecting Aaliyah At All Costs

Aaliyah

Just a recap on “Black Twitter”…if you didn’t know, “Black Twitter” is a cultural identity on Twitter, focused on issues of interest to the black community, as defined by Wikipedia. In short…Black Twitter will shut you down in a hot minute! So that’s what happened to Kim Kardashian last night.

With such a huge legacy and die-hard fans who still defend Aaliyah’s honor daily, the wrong person paying tribute on Halloween can ignite flames throughout social media timelines–and it’s really no surprise that people who love Aaliyah and people who hate Kim Kardashian are one in the same, for the most part.

Many- not just Black Twitter- believe that as long as someone doesn’t use black face it isn’t blatantly offensive for a Halloween costume. Therefore, it leaves room for non-African Americans to pay tribute to their favorite black figures for the holiday. So whether or not Kardashian’s costume was actually offensive, or people just love Aaliyah and don’t want the two compared, is a pretty blurred line.

In years past, Kim, along with the entire Kardashian-Jenner clan, has come under fire for displaying a lack of sound judgment when it comes to race. The family has a laundry list of controversial and cultural appropriation offenses. So, it’s unsurprising that Kim’s costume would cause a stir.

Seeing a smoky-eyed, diamanté-encrusted Kardashian with waist-grazing hair paying homage to our beloved Aaliyah was problematic for her.

“Legend or not Aaliyah is a black woman and you’re not. It’s offensive and you shouldn’t push this limit, but ok,” said user @lagrlcrookdsmle.

https://twitter.com/LAGrlCrookdSmle/status/924484787699453953

“It’s offensive because babygirl is DEAD & you can’t pay hommage [sic] when you’re an Armenian just using her look as a costume. That’s the issue,” said user @shaurenza .

Then Black Twitter Responded!

And so here come the jokes!

https://twitter.com/JermaineWatkins/status/924445829821358081

But there was someone who thought Kim K was OK!

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