This Excerpt From Issa Rae’s Book From *Checks Notes* THREE Years Ago About Dating Asian Men Is Tearing Twitter Apart
April 30, 2018
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Issa Rae Book Excerpt Causes Fuss
Issa Rae wrote her ‘Adventures Of Awkward Black Girl’ book in 2015 and it was a pretty popular book that came and went without much controversy. That was until this weekend when someone’s book club revisited it or something and an old excerpt came back to life.
The portion in question is about Issa suggesting that black women date Asian men instead of black men.
The best proof that regular black people dont really read Issa Rae’s book is how long it took for this excerpt to go viral. Everyone seems to be discovering it today pic.twitter.com/kAGyVj0Kpp
— T. (@RickyRawls) April 29, 2018
Ew. Not the best look. The page has split the timeline. On one hand, if a black man had said that, he’d be getting dragged across the ashy abyss. On the other, Issa is a comedian and this does seem like a tongue-in-cheek comment. Plus a book a few years old might not be the best representation of her current thinking. Still, it’s quite the lightning rod. Take a look at the firestorm from Issa and her book.
I hope that Issa Rae quote makes its rounds. I'd love to see the responses to that so I can go pull up how yall was talking when KimmayTube was talking the exact same shit on here and yall was "yaassssiinnnngg" on the TL.
— Shyne Coldchain Jr. (@Smooth_Orator) April 29, 2018