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With one of the most anticipated movies of the summer, actress and comedian Leslie Jones of Ghostbusters should feel on top of the world. Unfortunately, her time in the spotlight is being overshadowed by racist messages sent to her on Twitter.
On Monday, Jones took to Twitter to speak out against the online harassment she has endured since the movie premiered on the 15th.
Many of the messages sent refer to Jones as a gorilla and show many pop culture and recent news events such as the Spongebob episode that featured a gorilla and the Ohio gorilla that was shot after a child fell into its enclosure. Other refer to her as the n-word and call her a “big lipped coon”.
In a series of tweets the actress voiced her feelings over the messages. Below are a few:
I use to wonder why some celebs don't have Twitter accts now I know. You can't be nice and communicate with fans cause people crazy.
— Leslie Jones (@Lesdoggg) July 19, 2016
As much as you want to thinks actors ain't human I want to give you something to think about. I work off pure passion for this game.
— Leslie Jones (@Lesdoggg) July 19, 2016
But I'm I that naive to think that some things was changing yes I was. We still live in a world where we have to say "black lives matter"
— Leslie Jones (@Lesdoggg) July 19, 2016
I'm so tired of it. Why is this still a fight? I want to hate so bad but I can't because I know it doesn't fix anything and just make me sad
— Leslie Jones (@Lesdoggg) July 19, 2016
I'm not stupid to not know racism exists. And I know it will probably live on way after me. But we have to make people take responsibility
— Leslie Jones (@Lesdoggg) July 19, 2016
Stop letting the ignorant people be the loud ones. Y'all I got more love than hate but they louder. Fuck that be louder.
— Leslie Jones (@Lesdoggg) July 19, 2016
Twitter I understand you got free speech I get it. But there has to be some guidelines when you let spread like that. You can see on the
— Leslie Jones (@Lesdoggg) July 19, 2016
I leave Twitter tonight with tears and a very sad heart.All this cause I did a movie.You can hate the movie but the shit I got today…wrong
— Leslie Jones (@Lesdoggg) July 19, 2016
Many fans of the actress encouraged their own followers to report the harassers.
None of Jones’s costars fellow SNL costar Kate McKinnon, Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, and Chris Hemsworth (all white) have done anything to defend her despite Kate McKinnon publicly talking about how much she loves Jones.
One thing that many have found to be quite shocking is the fact that Twitter has done absolutely nothing to stop her harassers despite this being a violation of Twitter.
At the time of this article’s publishing Twitter has still ceased to delete some of the accounts.
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