A professor of “Pan-African Studies” at Cal State University has pointed to the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory as an example of “white supremacy.”
“Why do I feel like it’s slightly racist to be a Taylor Swift fan?” Melina Abdullah wrote in an X post on Super Bowl Sunday.
Abdullah, a self-described “#BlackLivesMatter organizer, Pan-Africanist, Hip Hop scholar, daughter of God, womanist, truth-teller, mama,” currently works as a professor of Pan-African Studies at Cal State Los Angeles. She is also listed as a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter organization’s Los Angeles chapter.
When one X user asked her to explain her position on Taylor Swift, Abdullah said that she “FEELS” that liking Taylor Swift is racist. “Kind of like that feeling I get when there are too many American flags,” she wrote.
A few hours later, the BLM-linked professor referred to the Chiefs’ victory as a “right-wing, white supremacist conspiracy.”
“Folks think they’re attacking me by asking why I think everything is racist…I’m not offended. Virtually everything is racist,” she wrote in another post after her previous ramblings went viral.
Abdullah is no stranger to controversial social media posts. In June 2022, she took to social media to announce that white people are not welcome at “Juneteenth cookouts.”
“Attention white people… Please don’t ask if you can come to the cookout… #Juneteenth is freedom day for Black folks,” Abdullah wrote in a tweet in June 2022. “It should be #Reparations day for white folks.”
According to Abdullah’s Wikipedia bio, her father John Reimann, was “a union organizer and self-proclaimed Trotskyist.”
“Her mother is Linda Fowler Blackston and she was raised by Oji “Baba” Blackston. Her paternal grandfather was Günter Reimann (born Hans Steinicke), a German-Jewish Marxist economist and member of the Communist Party of Germany who opposed Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich,” the bio continues.
The BLM leader changed her surname to Abdullah after she married filmmaker Phaylen Abdullah. She opted to keep the name after their divorce.
