As nationwide protests continue to spiral into uncontrolled riots in response to the death of George Floyd, Justin Timberlake’s political stance may have cost him fans and followers.
The multi-platinum singer announced on Saturday (May 30) he would be donating to a nonprofit organization designed to fight criminal injustice for the poor.
“Please join me in supporting the Minneapolis protestors by donating to the @mnfreedomfund,” Timberlake, 39, wrote. “The freedom fund is combatting the harms of incarceration by paying bail for low income individuals who cannot otherwise afford: https://minnesotafreedomfund.org.”
Timberlake, who has often been criticized for appropriating black culture (mainly stemming from his lack of support and visibility in defending Janet Jackson during the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show fiasco), in turn, saw a noticeable portion of white supporters upset with his latest announcement.
Proud men’s rights activist Mike Cernovich wrote, “You’re funding rioters.” Houston radio personality Ken Webster accused the pop star of blindly suffering from white privilege. San Francisco Republican Party Chairman John Dennis taunted him for entering Twitter’s raging political warfare while others, accused him of funding alleged radical movement Antifa.
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According to the Minnesota Freedom Fund’s mission statement, its goal is to create “A society that does not condition pretrial freedom on class or identity, that has ended mass incarceration, and that invests in restorative and transformative justice.”
Timberlake joins Kehlani, Noname, Seth Rogen, Steve Carell, Lady Gaga, Chrissy Teigen, John Legend, Don Cheadle, Harry Styles, Patton Oswalt, John Cusack, Ellen DeGeneres, Colin Kaepernick, Cynthia Nixon, Janelle Monáe, Liam Wong, Kali Uchis, Ben Schwartz and Halsey who have contributed monetary support to various causes — which has infuriated plenty of people.
Check out some of the reactions below.
But wait, some people actually got a kick out of the controversy and ensured to let everyone know about it.
Justin Timberlake is letting his white guilt show. Giving money to antifa, who is mostly white while they go out and destroy property. Jumping cops. Not just male but also female. Beating store owners trying to protect their businesses. I’m not even surprised by this. He will do anything to not get cancelled by the woke Twitter. Funding domestic terrorism is not noble. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. I’m al not surprised how this article is directed at how just white people are upset at this. If you want to talk about tone deaf…
What makes you think black people care what Justin Timberlake does with his income?
What makes you think that I made this comment insinuating that they do? You should probably re read what I said instead of making a comment only based on race.
what about Mr George Floyd? what about the KKKops that Killed citizens of the united states of AmeriKKKa for no reason? as a citizens of the USA Justin can do whatever he wants with his money… the same way that People been bailing those cops out justin should do the same
These riots don’t really seem to be about George Floyd. It’s people like you with that thinking that keep your community down. The cops have been fired. One of them as far as I know of will be tried. What you’re asking for mob rule based on a narrative you’ve been fed your whole life. That America is founded, built, and survives on racism. When a unarmed white woman (Justine Ruszczyk) is shot by a cop of color in the same state no one says anything. Police brutality happens to all races. It only gets reported to the press when it’s a specific race. Gotta have something to keep people in fear when no seems to care about covid19 anymore. What’s really funny about this from the footage I’ve seen is people color still wearing masks to protect them from the virus while they loot. They don’t trust the government, but will believe them enough to still wear a mask when they go outside. The irony.
Agreed man well said.
don’t talk to me about donating money, about being charitable. you know bailing out protestors how will the money be rationed however. I just think it is not the appropriate time.
How could you not support this?
Why does nobody care about everyday violence when it’s gang members and drug dealers/criminals? Y’all just say don’t snitch and then nothing changes. Only care when it’s someone that dont look like you and you can blame someone else for something that has nothing to do with y’all! Fk these 4 cops but causing millions in damages to black owned businesses claiming black lives???? That’s what Kanye talks about. KKK was founded by democrats!
At least he’s trying to do something when so many won’t. It’s not about him helping to support Antifa, get out of here with that weak-minded thinking. Plus the neighborhoods you twitter fingers claim are damaged by the rioters & I’m going to assume you only mean the black ones, isn’t their neighborhood. For that to be the case they would have had to have money invested in property & business but that’s not the case since white America makes that’s hard to happen usually. So if they don’t have a property in that neighborhood or put money into the pockets of people annually by supporting products/business then it’s not their hood. Burn them down, fuck a target, fuck a civil court, fuck a cop car/precinct. Human lives over an inanimate object. No love to racist, non-antiracist, or cops (good or bad) since too many good ones don’t do enough to stop the bad pigs.
Maybe cuz whites smart enough to hate white antifa terrorists destroying black cities too. Niggas is stupid. N I’m black too, bjt yall fucking stupid for supporting destruction. Get what u deserve. U deserve to be treated like animals if u act like animals.
Pisses off his WHITE fan base….? You NEED to change to change your headline to “pisses off any racist fans”.
I didn’t know he was still relevant enough to even HAVE a fan base TO piss off PERIODT!
He has thousands of fans. It was never his fault that Janet and her team failed to prepare for this agreed upon stunt with a proper cover for him to pull off that didn’t reveal skin. She was in on the stunt but let him take all the heat. And he’s donating but gets criticized for it? He should be acknowledged fir helping. You just want to hate him because he’s. white I guess. Makes no sense. He’s helping.
Nah, I bet most of us are still here for him.
Just not the outspoken bootlickers.
Way to promote racism
your title shows how white people mean more than black people
No fuck you I am as white as white can be and these black communities are doing what’s Wright for people who seem to live in a country that puts no value on there lifes the people that they are paying through there taxes that are supposed to protect them are killing them every chance they get what if that were your family laying on the ground begging for there life over a fucking 20 dollar check wake the fuck up if that was me cause I am white I would of gotten a phone call from police department and said hay we have a problem let’s fix it they would have never hunted me like pray to begin with my heart goes out to all African American people growing up in this society and for all the people that are haters all I can say is wow we live in 2020 now black people lives matter my heart goes out to all of you
Thank you sir!
The title of this article should read: “Black Lives Matter Movement Gains Support from Justin Timberlake” or “Justin Timberlake Sets Himself Apart from His Racist Fanbase”
How is it that his fan base is racist? Evidence? Don’t say it’s because they don’t think he should be donating money to looters such as ANTIFA (mostly white), or racist groups such say Black Lives Matter. These are all far left radical groups whose strings are being pulled. None of these groups seem to be protesting peacefully. If you’ve seen the footage in Dallas; these groups are terrorist groups. It’s cool though. None of you will agree or even bother to do your research. The people who are going to suffer in the aftermath of all of this will be minorities, the elderly, and the poor.
Stop blaming Justin for the fact that Janet Jackson wanted to do the stunt of pulling off breast cover to go with lyrics as theatrical. She dressed herself for the stunt. It wasn’t done properly. Why is that Justin’s fault??
She’s the one who never stood by him when he hit all the blame.
Y’all big mad????
Justin been that dude way back when Beyoncé first put that good cooda on him ?
America, you have no idea how shit you look from afar at the moment. I’ve been a big fan of yours for a while, but it’s hard to defend what’s going on over there. I think you’ve forgot that literally everyone else in the world is inside, trying not to get sick, and you’re acting like this, seemingly filling the void of Netflix over saturation . A few weeks inside and you’ve all gone completely mad. Jesus Christ, pull your heads out your ass.
So what is your solution for the many officers that have abused their power? I don’t in any way condone those that commit crimes of any kind. But when the police REFUSE to punish their own, when the so called good cops refuse to turn in the bad ones, this is what happens. Be grateful that you are not denied service. Be grateful that you haven’t been harassed, falsely accused, threatened etc by the police.
You can’t solve an opinion. Whatever it is that is happening at the moment isn’t what was meant to happen to solve whatever it is that it is that needs to be solved. As sure you are of your argument, whatever that is, it is clear that there will be someone as passionate who feels the complete opposite. The fallacy, that has led to all this horrible’ness, is allowing your emotion to intoxicate your purpose, and distorting the logic.
While I agree, no amount of logic or discussion can help when the people who need to engage in that discussion instead respond to it with pepper spray, pepper rounds, illegal arrests, driving cars into crowds of people, and other forms of violence. Discussion only works when two or more parties engage in it; if only one party is discussing and the other side is shooting, the only change that will happen is the people sitting at the table will end up dead or dragged away from it. Ideally, education and discussion could solve all problems, but when people don’t listen to education and discussion, there aren’t any good choices left, and people are forced to choose the most effective of the terrible choices they have left.
Speedy, it’s not the police that refuse to discipline their own. It’s the AG, mayors and governors that need to do something about it. Letting your city burn to the ground is their response when they should have stopped this cop years ago. He had been reported for the dumb shit he was doing and the politicians there did nothing to stop him. Blame is due in a failed Democrat run city called Minneapolis. Point the fingers at them.
Not all white people are being scrutinized about this. Some white people go around and mind their business and are trying to live their best lives. There are also those people that wouldn’t perform such an act of violence, but they also fee deep down that this can be somehow justified. This is the deeply-rooted issue with race in America.
Sure, whatever you say armchair expert. We live our lives and work hard. If a cop acts like a POS, well he should be disciplined IN THE CITY WHERE IT OCCURRED. Go to Minneapolis and protest. Keep it there, because their failed mayor and governor knew about this cop. He had problems before, and so did George Floyd who was a five time felon. Why do the American tax payers have to suffer all the damage left by the criminals looting? Those idiots creating chaos do not do it for George. How are new looted shoes helping him? Will that bring him back from the dead? Racism is in human DNA. We feel prejudice due to circumstances of our environment. This is not out of control temper tantrum is not helping. I’ve known plenty of racist blacks and had it directed at me and my Mexican American family. So, prejudice is. It going anywhere unless you can control people and turn them into robots.
So you have a great point, Mr. Smart Man, Jr. Also, whether someone see’s your point or not, you fight for what you feel is right, and you go and get it. That’s what mankind has done throughout the history of mankind. So, you make a great point. That’s why this is happening across America. This has not only happened “IN THE CITY WHERE IT OCCURRED”. This has happened in many cities across the USA. This just happened to be televised, along with a few others.
Man you sound like a complete bigot. But, you make a great point. Just like racism is in human DNA, so is fighting for justice. It isn’t pretty. And the fact that you’re bringing up looting is just smearing the actual situation at hand. Sure, there are looters. There are also people out there fighting for justice. That is the true cause of this entire ordeal. You are coming here as if you have a certain prejudice towards blacks in the first place. So you mean to tell me that only blacks have shown you racism? Also, whether this guy is black, or Mexican, I believe that “Blacks” would be out there doing the same thing. Just gone somewhere with your bleached brain man
Right on !! Murder and incest and moving coke is in our DNA! Why do I keep getting arrested for so called incest if it’s in our DNA!!
Justin, I hope you have only a small fan base that feels this way. And I hope it doesn’t cause you to quiet yourself. Right is right, I just don’t get it.
The black community traded in Stacy Dash for Justin Timberlake in 2012 when she endorsed Mitt Romney for president. There have been 0 reported regrets.
The weak mayor and governor of Minneapolis claimed white supremacists infiltrated the protests. So are JT and his communist buddies donating to white racists lol? Or is the mayor and governor of Minneapolis full of it?
Bailing out rioters. Not protesters. Not saying the anger is unjustified but take it out on the people that deserve it. If you’re burning down your own neighbourhood, terrifying civilians and looting local businesses then jail is where you should be. Seems like black AND white people are slating him too, let’s acknowledge whole picture.
Can’t do that. Would be going against the narrative. You only tell parts of the truth so you can keep this thing going. Everything is white peoples fault. Even the ones that fund radical left wing terrorist groups.
It’s a business move for celebrities. Even if they know they disagree, they will go with what makes Cents.
What makes sense to their careers. If they don’t support this they lose their “credibility”. Celebrities also just love attention. People want to recognized for something. No one wants to do anything without plastering it all over social media as a; “look what I did”. That’s not doing something for nothing. You’re doing it to get something in return.
Can someone name any event when a white person suffered injustice and the blacks all spoke out on it and protested with the white people?
Can you give us an example of when a white person suffered injustice? I’m sure there were black people that spoke in defense of it, if so.
Reginald Denny. Look him up. There are 100’s of other examples. Let’s start with the most appropriate.
More white people are killed by officers than black people. More unarmed white people are killed by officers than black people. These are facts. But here is a really good one: Black people are 13 percent of the population and yet are responsible for over half the murders in the country. Black people’s problem isn’t the police, it’s yet another young black man killing another young black man for stepping on his Jordans.
Aka I’m a closed racist who will NEVER admit to it because to prove it, I’ll even lie to myself.
You jerk-off ! you are bailing out the people who burned down businesses, robbed TV’s and kicked the crap out of business owners trying to save their business. You are 100% A-hole!
Race, economics, organizations and politics, religion, twitter and Facebook, and so many other things….it all makes things so complicated when it’s all so simple. There are two types of people in this world—assholes and not-assholes—-that’s it. And every race, religion, creed, and social class is full of assholes. And these assholes use all this other shit to further whatever asshole agenda they have in their asshole mind and other assholes gobble it up. But the real tragedy is when a not-asshole starts gobbling it up too, and then becomes an asshole. That’s called losing one, or a win for the dark side, a victory for the assholes. Some call it “spiritual warfare” (but many of them are assholes too), but it’s really just asshole vs. not-asshole and the fight over balance. Well, are you an asshole or not? Ask yourself this. And don’t let all this other shit confuse you, and fool you, because it will if you think about it too much. You know deep down in your heart whether you’re an asshole or not. You know it, you feel it…now follow that. Let that be your guide and forget all this other stuff that separates and divides you from your not-asshole brethren. Because the assholes are winning. They’re winning today, and they were winning two weeks ago, and four hundred years ago. It’s time to stop falling for the assholes and following your inner not-asshole voice. This is what Christ preached (10 ways to not be an asshole). This is why Buddha meditated (meditate time free yourself from your asshole tendencies). This is what Jon Lennon imagined (a world without assholes). And this is what Malcom X finally realized during his pilgrimage to Mecca (“Wow…I was an asshole!). So feel that. Wake up. Touch your inner asshole and say, “Not today, my friend, not today.” And you can start today. Right now. Remember that. You can always wipe your inner asshole clean and begin anew.
Well thought out. “10 ways to not be an asshole” is also pretty funny lol
I’ve replied to several people whom have the liberty of replying to my comments. Hoeever, I do not see my replies. Why is this? Is there a comment checker and delay? I’ve tried posting multiple times. Smh.
I’m having the same problem.
LOL those aren’t his fans
Where’d the hell you get that idea?
Justin Timberlake is jooish. Like you couldn’t already tell from his face and hair? So of course he’s going to support anything anti-white. Also we all know that joos control the music industry, so all these anti-white statements and actions from these artists is because of their jooish handlers.
Yeah, only he isn’t jooish, dummy. Joos are white BTW. Idiot. Is Madonna not white now because she converted? JT used to sing in a CHURCH CHOIR as a child dumb dumb.
Why are all these garbage articles just links to peoples’ tweets?
Do you people not write anything anymore?
There appears to be plenty of information in the article. Did you just look at the pretty pictures?
This Putz needs to go away, and his fans can do it.
Do you Timberlake, who cares what others have to say. We wouldn’t be in this situation if race relations were better 100 years later….smh.. Shame on all yall who continue to promote racism.
People are so dumb man. He said he would bailout protesters not looters or people rioting their is a difference. I find it hard to believe he would risk his career to help out people that are destroying communities. No wonder every country views us as stupid assholes around the world.
White people are upset!? White people!? Everyone should be mad about this! He’s helping bail out individuals who are on criminal charges from the protest, which means those who are NOT peacefully protesting. The “charities” site does not bother differentiating between peaceful and violent protesters or rioters. They are calling ALL of them “protester”. They are bailing people out who are put in jail for “criminal charges”. It’s on their site! But Justin doesn’t care because Justin isn’t in the neighborhood where these violent offenders will be returning to.
The misleading title of this article was meant to cause more divide.
Good for Justin, it will weed out the kkk from his followers
White people think there is no racism in this country. If anything, they think they are the victims lmao.
You are delusional human garbage
I was a fan of JT….NOW I’M AN EVEN BIGGER FAN!!! Well done Mr. Timberlake. ???????
Plz let me join
Very sad day for you Justin, Hollywood, and Dems .All make me sick. Save your money buddy, no one will come to see you again !