Black Lives Matter claims it’s ‘slightly racist’ to like Taylor Swift

Melina Abdullah, a controversial Pan-African Studies professor at California State University Los Angeles, made the claim on X during the Super Bowl on Feb. 11.

"Why do I feel like it’s slightly racist to be a Taylor Swift fan?" said Abdullah, the founder of BLM Grassroots, which is the daughter company of the Black Lives Matter Global Network.

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The professor's comment sparked a lively debate as the most decorated award-winning Grammy artist was in the stands supporting her Kansas City Chiefs boyfriend, Travis Kelce.

Some agreed with Abdullah, while others referred to the comment as mentally ill.

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After the San Francisco 49ers lost, which was the team that Abdullah had been supporting, she claimed in another post on X that the loss was because of white supremacy.

"Why do I feel like this was some right-wing, white-supremacist conspiracy?!?! Booooooo!!!!" said Abdullah.

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"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 a follow-up post a few days later.

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The College Fix was the first to report on this matter.

Abdullah has been in national headlines quite a few times over the past several years, all for controversial incidents.

The California professor has falsely claimed that actor Jussie Smollett's shocking MAGA hate crime hoax was a "setup." She argued during the actor's Chicago December 2021 trial that he was innocent, despite Smollett being found guilty of perpetrating the hoax, per the outlet.

Additionally, Abdullah filed a lawsuit against Black Lives Matter Inc. on claims that the leader of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, Shalomyah Bowers, stole over $10 million from the nonprofit and used the organization as a "personal piggy bank." A California judge threw out the suit last July.

Abdullah's biography on her California State University Los Angeles teaching profile states that she is "a womanist scholar-activist – understanding the role that she plays in the academy as intrinsically linked to broader struggles for the liberation of oppressed people."

Abdullah is also identified as co-director of Black Lives Matter Grassroots, the activist branch of the divisive advocacy group, and of the Black Lives Matter chapter in Los Angeles.