KYLIE Jenner has sparked backlash after her past text to her sister Kim Kardashian, calling her “ghetto,” re-emerged online.
Kim, 41, shared a screenshot of her half-siblings’ text on Instagram when the exchange occurred in 2015.
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The photo – which still lives on Kim’s account – resurfaced, angering fans with the then-teenager’s choice of words.
Kylie’s text was a birthday message for her older sister, which read: “HAPPY BIRTHDAY I know we get on each others nerves sometimes lol but thank u for always having my back.
“I learn a lot from u whether it’s about fashion or how to turn from good girl to ghetto. Love u.”
The original poster was unhappy with the Kylie Cosmetics founder’s “questionable” note, including their thoughts alongside the screengrab.
“In a post that is still up on Kim’s Instagram, then 17-year-old Kylie Jenner thanks her sister for teaching her how to ‘turn from good girl to ghetto.’
“Today it is questionable if Kim K would be as enthusiastic about being associated with ‘ghetto’ as she struggles to ‘clean up’ her reputation.”
Many critics agreed, slamming the youngest Kardashian/Jenner sibling, with one calling her “shallow.”
Others thought her comments were “racist” and “so infuriating.”
Kylie was previously accused of blackfishing – which refers to someone pretending to be Black or mixed-race by using hair styling and makeup.
Journalist Wanna Thompson created the term and described it as “White public figures, influencers, and the like [who] do everything in their power to appear Black.”
BLACKFISHING CLAIMS
In May, the 24-year-old was accused of darkening her skin tone in a photo to promote her new makeup line, where she showed off a deep tan and slicked-back hair.
Kylie framed her eyes with bold purple eyeshadow and used a purple-brown color on her lips.
The mother-of-two captioned it: “y bronze and mauve palettes drop tomorrow at 9am pst in all-new highly pigmented and easy to blend shades.”
Unlike her older siblings, Kylie does not have an Armenian heritage. She is Caitlyn and Kris Jenner’s second daughter.
Kris has English, Irish, Dutch, German, and Scottish roots, according to Showbiz CheatSheet.
Caitlyn, a former Olympian, has Canadian and Welsh roots and, like Kris, also traces her heritage back to England, Ireland, Scotland, and Holland.
Kylie’s critics slammed her for her “disturbing” photo and claimed she’s “ripping off minorities.”
One wrote: “This is not okay… she is a white girl. This is blackfishing. I might not have actually known this was Kylie if it weren’t for this sub. Somebody stop her.”
Another added: “What kills me is the strategic planning of it all. An art director, make-up artist and photographer all had a meeting and deliberately decided, ‘Ok we are going to try to make you look biracial/Latina etc’ with this look. And then collective agreement!!”
A third posted: “She wants to be a non-white woman sooo badly it’s disturbing honestly.”
Yet another user commented: “Finding another minority to rip off from.”
PAST BACKLASH
This is not the first time Kylie has been accused of blackfishing.
In October, she and her sister Kendall came under fire for showing off significantly darker skin in an Instagram Story.
Weeks later, Kylie again sported an olive complexion and tight black braid while filming herself in the car.
The reality star has been sharing a more candid side to herself since welcoming her second child, a son, in February.
Kylie and her sisters were also recently accused of “extracting financial gain” from Black people in a scathing Los Angeles article.
The reporter used a quote from Ren Ellis Neyra, a Wesleyan University associate professor of African American studies.
Ren wrote in the digital magazine Public Books: “The Kardashians are a prime example of multiracial white supremacy.
“A commercial enterprise posing as a family, the Kardashians are hell-bent on extracting financial gain from Black people and Black culture, even as they stigmatize, in particular, Black women through their project of multiracial whiteness.”
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