‘I've been a victim of domestic abuse before and I have a flight or fight reaction whenever men get in my face’
Azealia Banks has caused controversy once again by being caught on camera calling a flight attendant a “fucking faggot”.
The incident happened in the early hours of Tuesday morning, while the outspoken singer was trying to exit a Delta flight from New York to LA. According to a video shown on TMZ, Banks used the homophobic slur after getting into a fracas with another passenger, directing it at the flight attendant after he refused to hand over her bags.
“Ok so I get hit in the face by a man and no one cares. The only hear what I called the man who was blocking my exit,” she wrote on Twitter immediately after the incident. “I don’t care. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I don’t tolerate bitchassness and I don’t tolerate men putting their hands on me.”
The tweets have since been deleted and replaced with new ones to defend her actions, which you can read below:
If America is so concerned with derogatory language, why do I not see even a quarter of this outrage when I use the word "NIGGER"????
— AZEALIABANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) September 23, 2015
America picks and chooses when it likes to be offended. And THAT is a major part of American culture that HAS to change.
— AZEALIABANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) September 23, 2015
So, under the American social rhetoric I am only allowed to degrade myself and others like me. Is that right ?
— AZEALIABANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) September 23, 2015
I will make one apology. And it's to apologize to the feelings of the people who enjoy my music and hate seeing me in drama.
— AZEALIABANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) September 23, 2015
I only OWE an apology to my fans. My true true ride or die fans. The rest of yall can pick up a rock and suck on it !!
— AZEALIABANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) September 23, 2015
Because the fans saw how those men were handling me. The fans know that I'm 5'2, 106 llbs and was genuinely terrified in that moment.
— AZEALIABANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) September 23, 2015
I've been a victim of domestic abuse before and I have a flight or fight reaction whenever men get in my face.
— AZEALIABANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) September 23, 2015
And to be quite honest IM REALLY tired of the world trying to police the way black women should or shouldn't express themselves.
— AZEALIABANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) September 23, 2015
We aren't angry, we're fucking hurt. HURT HURT HURT .
— AZEALIABANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) September 23, 2015
And trust, I don't say I'm bisexual to excuse my use of the F word. I say it to let you know that I lick pussy and tits and I like it (ctnd)
— AZEALIABANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) September 23, 2015
And I would NEVER judge someone based on what they like to do in the bedroom. WHEN I BE DOIN THE SAME SHIT ! LOL🎈🎊🎉💁🏽👅💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾
— AZEALIABANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) September 23, 2015
Banks has used the word several times before on social media, and even previously made attempts to reclaim the insult – claiming that she means it in a “feminist” way.
“When I use the word 'faggot,' it comes from a feminist point of view,” she told Sirius XM’s Xorje Olivares back in February. “The word 'faggot' came to me from my mother. And it was never a thing about a guy being gay. It was always just a man who hates women. You can be gay or straight. You can be a straight faggot… Faggots are men who want to bring women down, fuck with their heads, control them.”
“You called me a bitch, I'll call you a faggot. What's the difference?”