BuzzFeed’s ‘27 Questions Black People Have For Black People’ Video Was A Really, Really Bad Idea

I don’t know what joker over at BuzzFeed thought it would be a good idea to film a video called ‘27 questions black people have for black people’, but it was always going to be a risky move and the response it has received proved why.

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Watch below:

And cue the backlash:

Sooo "Questions white people have for black people…but asked by black people so it seems OK" is what you meant? 🤔 https://t.co/tI1HexuNRC

— hope carter. (@Hope_Carter) April 13, 2016

https://twitter.com/TheToast2016/status/720078836768075777?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

https://twitter.com/WlZKHALlFA/status/720400273772912640

Are the Black people in that video the ones white Buzzfeed employees refer to when they say "I have Black friends"? #BuzzFeedVideoQuestions

— jujoffer (@jujoffer) April 13, 2016

#QuestionsWhitePeopleWantBlackPeopleToAskOtherBlackPeopleToReinforceStereotypes.

— CMKinMIA (@cmkinmia) April 13, 2016

@BuzzFeedVideo how much extra did you pay these dumb niggas to ask y'all white questions on camera

— MoMoTheGodmotha (@CoCoValentine) April 13, 2016

That "Questions Black People Have For Black People" @BuzzFeedVideo summed up in one gif: pic.twitter.com/dPjP3qdz8i

— Yves' Pinned Tweet (@AdamantxYves) April 13, 2016

So basically, BuzzFeed are getting KILLED on social media for this video. Fair enough really because it’s pretty awful. Like some of the Tweets mention, I’m not even sure if those questions are really from black people, or if a bunch of unintentionally racist white people at BuzzFeed wrote them and just got a bunch of black people to read them out. Big time swing and miss from BuzzFeed either way.

But hey, if the ex-leader of the KKK can denounce racism, then there’s hope for everyone.