"The 30-year-old shared a Facebook post in the Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn community Facebook group. In the post, she expressed that she was looking for women in the community "to join a Bunco Club," organized by her every month at her apartment. Ellen also shared a selfie with a group of five other women sitting on the floor, seemingly from one of those dice game nights. Notably, every woman in the picture appeared to be white, with no person of color present."
"Ellen Christy shared a post about her monthly "Bunco Club" dice game in Brooklyn's Bed-Stuy neighborhood on a Facebook group. Netizens criticized the 30-year-old midwife for appropriating Black culture, citing the lack of diversity in her post. A screenshot of Christy's post went viral after she deleted it, igniting heated debates over colonial behavior and community sensitivity."
""The colonizers be colonizing," commented one social media user."
Ellen Christy, a 30-year-old Jamaica Hospital midwife, posted in a Bedford-Stuyvesant community Facebook group seeking women to join a monthly Bunco Club at her apartment. The post included a selfie of six women sitting on the floor, all appearing white, with no people of color visible. The original post was deleted after a screenshot circulated and sparked online backlash accusing her of cultural appropriation and disrespecting the Black community. Commenters labeled the event colonial behavior and criticized the lack of diversity. The dispute ignited heated debates about community sensitivity, gentrification, and appropriate outreach in predominantly Black neighborhoods.
Read at Bored Panda
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]