“Imagine if your EBT card could only work on healthy items,” tweeted Keke Palmer on Nov. 9. With a single tweet, the Hustlers star kicked the political hornets’ nest, with many angry people filling up her mentions.
Many thought that Keke, 27, was trying to dictate what people on the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (aka SNAP, aka Electronic Benefits Transfer, aka “food stamps”) could and could not eat.
After a bitter back and forth by people who missed out on her earlier musings, Keke fired back. “ “To clarify, my tweet was pertaining to issues w/ healthy foods being 2 expensive & thinking it should be free for those w/ EBT cards,” she tweeted. “This was not a suggestion for solving all low-income issues.
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