Rebel Wilson, aka Fat Amy from the Pitch Perfect movies, wasn’t a fan favorite during Sunday’s MTV Video Music Awards. Wilson, who was presenting the award for Best Hip-Hop Video (which Nicki Minaj won), joked about police injustice.
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“I know a lot of people have problems with the police, but I really hate police strippers,” Wilson stated while dressed in a police uniform. She then stripped down to a T-shirt reading, “[F—k] tha Police Stripper,” and went on to joke about her grandmother having a stripper as a birthday gift who wouldn’t “feel her up.”
“I hate this injustice,” she joked, “hence the shirt;” a shirt some thought was a play on Black Lives Matter but may have been a play on N.W.A’s song.
Many people on social media thought the skit was definitely inappropriate, especially considering current issues with police brutality.
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Sure, Wilson probably didn’t write the skit or even the jokes. But this goes to show that even with MTV’s documentary White People and its attempt to encourage understanding about present-day racial issues, MTV is going to do what it does best: make a mockery of issues under the guise of entertainment.
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