Tom Hanks is one of America’s most beloved actors. When he and his wife Rita Wilson were diagnosed with COVID-19 early last year as the pandemic was just beginning its rampage, Hanks’ fans rallied around the couple and prayed for a speedy recovery.
On Friday night (March 27), Hanks and Wilson’s 30-year-old son Chet Hanks (formerly known as rapper Chet Haze) started trending on Twitter after he declared it was about to be a “white boy summer,” begging the question — How is Tom Hanks this guy’s father?
In the clip, Chet looks at the camera with a straight face and says, “I just got this feeling man, that this summer is, it’s about to be a white boy summer. Take it how you want.”
He then brings up rapper du jour Jack Harlow and ’90s R&B singer Jon B., who was purportedly one of 2Pac’s favorite singers and co-wrote the 1998 collaboration “Are U Still Down?” featuring the slain rap legend’s last recorded verse before his death.
“I’m not talking about Trump, NASCAR type white. I’m talking about, you know, me, [R&B artist] Jon B., [rapper] Jack Harlow type white boy summer,” he continued. “Let me know if you guys can vibe with that and get ready, ‘cuz I am.”
The “white boy summer’ bit is a clear play on Megan Thee Stallion’s Hot Girl Summer, which comes from the 2019 song “Cash Shit.” After the phrase went viral, Megan capitalized on the moment and released a track of the same name in August of that year. Since then, Hot Girl Summer is nearly interchangeable with the Grammy Award-winning rapper.
But the racist undertones of Chet’s reimagination of the phrase didn’t sit well with social media and he quickly drew the ire of Twitter, especially considering he was once under fire for using the “n-word” in 2015.
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Comments such as “Chet Hanks is proof that you can do everything right in the world and kids will still embarrass tf outta you and “Are we sure that Chet Hanks is Tom and Rita’s biological offspring? Something’s just not adding up” started flooding Twitter faster than Forest Gump could say Bubba Gump Shrimp.
Harlow has yet to react to the viral video, choosing to plug his Saturday (March 27) appearance on Saturday Night Live on both Twitter and Instagram instead. No word from Jon B. either.
Check out some of the best reactions below.
The technology we have now is crazy with just a 30 second clip of a video You can tell someone smells like axe body spray and Disappointment.
Yeah, only he sits in a mansion and drives a Ferrari, in only a 10 second post I can tell you sit in your moms basement and drive a 90’s Hyundai. Dork.
Nope I’m time traveling, I’m right about where you describe your living situation realizing it’s pathetic and projecting it on the internet .
Who TF spells Hyundai Correctly if they don’t own one?
This guy is hilarious. Just sit back and enjoy, he’s going to get us all off.
These people tweeting and making memes about it are bums
why does harlow have curly hair.
From his azz and nutz
That’s it! Time to jump on Twitter and tweet a cancel notice to all white people and make them scour back to the Caucus Mountains except the Mt. Rushmore centerpiece of presidents Joe Biden.
lol like who cares tho
Great impartial article. Journalism at its finest. “How is this Tom Hank’s son?” He is a spoiled rich white kid. He did the Jamaican Patwon voice thing a while back and all of these SJW dorks shit their pants, while people in Jamaica thought it was actually cool and a shout-out to them. SMH. This younger generation of Americans are some soft ass bitches. Virtue signaling with gotcha bullshit, pointing this irrelevant dude out because he said something they didn’t like. Is someone implying that this guy actually hates black people? He is doing some Klan type shit on the low, or believes in white supremacy? If Megan game out and said it was going to be a black Queen summer, that would be OK? He has freedom of speech, which for some reason liberals (which I am one of) somehow don’t understand is under attack because of ridiculous nonsense like this right here. He is “under attack” by a bunch of thought police/word police weirdos who don’t have real problems in their lives. Looking at what he said, I interpreted the “white boy summer” shit to be a slight towards white people. How about that? SMH. I’m a Latino. Y’all are some pussies. This dude has gone SO hard talking shit about Trump. That doesn’t get him points with the they/them auditors?
People are stupid. Dude was clowning around. Are people for real?
Racist undertones? Because he white? Shut the fuck up it’s so corny how everyone demands to be a victim these days.
It’s been White Boy summer in this country since 1776, honestly bad fucking taste in words from a guy married to a black woman
Here we go with the White Boys stealing hip hop, just like country music, just like rock and roll, pop, jazz, want me to continue
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