Kylie Jenner was involved in a new social media spat on Saturday after sharing a selfie while sporting a cornrows hairstyle on Instagram. Despite having over a million likers on the photo-sharing platform, "Hunger Games" star Amandla Stenberg wasn't impressed at all.
Did Kylie Jenner and Amandla Stenberg fight over cornrows? Well, it appears so after Stenberg slammed Jenner's cornrows selfie, which the "Keeping up with Kardashians" star posted on Instagram over the weekend, Us Weekly reported.
"I woke up like disss," Jenner captioned, in which Stenberg harshly commented, "@novemberskyys when u appropriate black features and culture but fail to use ur position of power to help black Americans by directing attention towards ur wigs instead of police brutality or racism #whitegirlsdoitbetter."
Kylie Jenner wasn't taken aback by the comment made by 16-year-old Amandla Stenberg.
"@amandlastenberg Mad if I don't, Mad if I do.... Go hang w Jaden or something," Caitlyn Jenner's 17-year-old daughter promptly retorted.
The man in question and mentioned in the Kylie Jenner-Amandla Stenberg social media exchange is none other than 17-year-old Jaden Smith. According to New York Daily News, Smith is Jenner's longtime pal and rumored lover. While Stenberg took Smith to prom back in May.
Kylie Jenner is not the first celeb accused by Amandla Stenberg of black culture "appropriation." Earlier this year, The Sydney Morning Herald revealed that the "Hunger Games" star also accused Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift and Katy Perry of using black culture to gain more attention.
Based on the snippet of Stenberg's "Discourse on Black Culture," she said "appropriation" ensues after a style became racist generalizations and stereotypes, which is considered as high-fashion when celebs take it for themselves.
"Hip-hop stems from a black struggle; it stems from jazz and blues, styles of music African-Americans created to retain humanity in the face of adversity," Stenberg said. "On a smaller scale, but in a similar vein, braids and cornrows are not merely stylistic. They're necessary to keep black hair neat."
Meanwhile, after sparking an Instagram feud with Jenner, Stenberg took to Twitter on Sunday to express her thoughts on cultural appropriation and gender double standards. As per another Us Weekly report, Stenberg wrote a longer racial criticism with a caption that read, "words by me."
"White women are paragons of virtue and desire," Stenberg wrote. "Black women are objects of fetishism and brutality. This, at least, seems to be the mentality surrounding black femininity and beauty in a society built upon eurocentric beauty standards."
As Amandla Stenberg said her piece, Kylie Jenner seemed to have already shrugged off the issue.
words by me pic.twitter.com/g0HapkvfAt — Amandla Stenberg (@amandlastenberg) July 13, 2015
