Even if a music artist uses the “n-word” in a song lyric, it’s not okay for non-Black celebs to casually repeat it. At least that’s the lesson that actress Alia Shawkat has learned.
The Search Party star has issued a long apology after video surfaced of her saying the slur during an interview at South by Southwest in 2016. Brad Pitt‘s good pal used a line from Drake‘s 2013 hit “We Made It” featuring Soulja Boy to express how excited she was about a project going over well.
She now says the n-word is “never a word to be used by someone who is not black.” Alia, 31, shared a three-slide Instagram post on June 8 that read, “I am writing this to address a video of me quoting a song with the n-word in it as part of an interview 4 years ago.
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