Ari Lennox, Lil’ Boosie, & 50 Blast Oprah & Gayle King For Targeting Black Men

Ari Lennox, Lil’ Boosie, & 50 Blast Oprah & Gayle King For Targeting Black Men

Singer Ari Lennox (Courtney Shanade Salter), 28, has definitely taken a side in the ongoing backlash media mogul Oprah Winfrey and CBS journalist Gayle King have faced in recent weeks. On Wednesday (Feb. 5th), the singer shared her thoughts following Gayle King’s CBS interview with WNBA legend, Lisa Leslie.

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During their sit down, Gayle touched on the very sensitive 2003 rape allegations against former NBA star, Kobe Bryant. Ari begins her rant,

“Kale and Okra I’m over y’all. I’m over y’all. I don’t give a f*ck how rich you are, how much you f*cking accomplishment, you’re tearing down the legacies of so many phenomenal, beautiful black men and I don’t f*cking have time for it.”

???? kale & okra

— M A E ?? (@keediemae_) February 6, 2020

She adds,

“I’m sick, I’m disgusted. You don’t care about black people.”

Ari ends her rant against the billionaire executive by touching on a past viral moment when she called out a Morehouse student who asked for a photo with a cracked iPhone. Ari continues,

”Okra, I knew you wasn’t sh*t when the kids was trying to take a picture with you and you said ‘oh I see your little cracked phone.’”

Check out some reactions from social media:

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#GayleKing need to get relevant somehow, eh? The massah is off limits (Harvey), so go after a man who is dead. Case was dropped. Maybe he commuted a crime, maybe the girl lied and realized she’d get found out. We don’t know. But no conviction. pic.twitter.com/duQhoZA5yL

— Ballad (@BalladGuitar) February 6, 2020

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In Addition, Ari isn’t the alone in her stance against Oprah and Gayle. A list of rappers also stood with Ari on calling the media duo out on Instagram for targeting fellow black celebs.

Lil’ Boosie, Snoop Dogg, and 50 Cent all took to their Instagram sharing how they feel about the line of questioning Gayle steered her interview with Leslie.

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As reported, On Monday (Feb. 3rd), actress Mo’Nique blasted Oprah Winfrey in a lengthy open letter, accusing her of treating people who are accused of similar crimes like sexual assault differently based on their race.

“Dear Oprah,
I felt compelled to write you this open letter after observing the disparity in the way that you seem to treat people, who were accused of the same allegations. You did an interview on the CBS Morning Show and were asked about Harvey Weinstein by Norah O’Donnell, and you said as it pertained to him that you “always try to look at the Rainbow in the clouds, whatever is the “silver lining”. You also said “if we make this all about Harvey Weinstein then we have lost the moment.”

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