Twitter Told Letitia Wright She Was Wrong For Posting An Anti-Vaxx Video
Turns out Letitia Wright, who played T’Challa’s super-smart scientist sister in Black Panther, is a better actor than we gave her credit for. Earlier today, Letitia tweeted out what sounds like a truly batshit 69-minute video that managed to espouse anti-vax rhetoric, blame China for spreading the coronavirus, side-eye climate change, and be transphobic all in one fell swoop! Letitia’s Marvel-mate Don Cheadle tried to defend her at first, but after he actually watched the video and declared it “hot garbage”, he took it back. Letitia may have played a super-smart scientist on the big screen, but apparently, in real life, she’s more concerned that the COVID vaccine might actually be liquefied Satan! Letitia honey, please turn in your lab coat and beakers immediately.
The video has since been taken down by YouTube, according to Tomi Arayomi, a “well recognised (sic) Prophet” per his Facebook page. But here’s the gist, via Variety:
Without comment aside from a praying hands emoji, Wright on Thursday night tweeted a 69-minute video from YouTube channel ‘On The Table,’ which features lengthy commentary from Tomi Arayomi, a senior leader with Light London Church and speaker, in which he questions the legitimacy of the COVID-19 vaccination, appears sceptical of climate change, accuses China of spreading COVID-19, and makes transphobic comments. The tweet has since been deleted.
“These are the dangers of the world we’re entering into today, where if you say a thing enough times people will actually believe it’s true,” says Arayomi.
“This kind of science by convenience where I’ll believe in science when it’s convenient to global warming, but I won’t believe in it when it’s convenient to gender, when it inconveniences my particular ideology, is the very reason why, if you’re working in the UN, World Health Organization, or the mass news or dial media heads, the reason the public doesn’t believe you.”
Us Weekly adds that in the video, Tomi also said “I don’t understand vaccines medically, but I’ve always been a little bit of a skeptic of them,” adding that people who get the vaccine, which has already been approved for use in the UK, should “hope to God it doesn’t make extra limbs grow,” as if that wouldn’t be an awesome bonus! Letitia has since deleted the offending Tweet and issued an explanation of sorts.
my intention was not to hurt anyone, my ONLY intention of posting the video was it raised my concerns with what the vaccine contains and what we are putting in our bodies.
Nothing else.
— Letitia Wright (@letitiawright) December 4, 2020
She might not have meant to hurt anybody, but poor Don Cheadle had to watch it after he tried to stick up for her. Sounds like that shit hurt his heart!
jesus… just scrolled through. hot garbage. every time i stopped and listened, he and everything he said sounded crazy and fkkkd up. i would never defend anybody posting this. but i still won't throw her away over it. the rest i'll take off twitter. had no idea. https://t.co/7uDlP1xwDL
— Don "bruh, you lost" Cheadle (@DonCheadle) December 4, 2020
Previous to her explanation, Letitia had doubled down and sparred with folks who questioned her logic, including writer Roxane Gay who penned the spinoff comic book Black Panther: World of Wakanda.
Thinking for yourself doesn’t mean you’re right. And you aren’t cancelled. But damn. Promoting anti-vaccine propaganda and shrouding it in intellectual curiosity is asinine. And dangerous.
— roxane gay (@rgay) December 4, 2020
the name lucifer is an interesting choice 😞 * opens bible*
— Letitia Wright (@letitiawright) December 4, 2020
It’s clear from her Instagram page that Letitia is a deeply religious person. And apparently, those beliefs line up, at least in part, with Tomi’s who had this to say on Facebook about his video being removed from YouTube and the blow-back Letitia received.
I didn’t know free speech was a crime in this Country. I didn’t know black lives only matter as long as they agreed with the mainstream orthodoxy. Last time I checked, we lived in the Western world, I had no idea that we would wake up in some Orwellian nightmare where discourse gets you cancelled from youtube and blasted in the mainstream media. I wake up today in the Western World, or so I’m told! I wake up in a world where mindless news organisations act like echo chambered talking heads. I’ve woken up in Stalins dream world. A commercial democracy! The Truman Show! You believe what we tell you to believe! I wake up in a world where you must believe science except for when a HBO series tells a 4 year old to take hormone blockers because God made a mistake on their gender???
The problem is, I can’t stay silent! I’ve dealt with bullies all my life! Today’s ones are no different. They’re still the same insecure little children but just with cameras! So cancel us, but you will never silence us!
I’m no religious scholar or armchair scientist like the good prophet here, but I do have a bible and it’s called a dictionary. Nowhere in that good book do the words “criticized,” “slammed,” or “backlash” have the word “cancelled” as a secondary definition.
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