Awkwafina is getting burned to a crisp online over a half-assed Notes app statement about the constant alleged criticism she has profited from Black culture and communities throughout her career.
The actress whose real name is Nora Lum has been accused of using a Blaccent in her professional career for several years. Black writer Michelle Laura Jackson wrote in an article for Vulture in 2018 that “her persona has veered too close to Black asethetics for comfort… Sliding in and out of a grammar that speeds past certain consonants, utilises the habitual ‘be’, and takes on a twang with danks and struggles aplenty, Awkwafina has inspired the resurrection of that dreaded portmanteau reserved for non-Black people with Black voices.”
