Pink slams Instagram commenters criticising her Black Lives Matters post
Pink has swiftly put an Instagram user in their place after they criticised her Black Lives Matter post.
The singer, 40, is one of the many famous faces who has spoken out following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis last week.
Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, died in police custody after being restrained by an officer who kneeled on his neck.
Pink reposted a section of text written by Billie Eilish, in which the young star explained her issue with people insistent on saying “All lives matter”, writing: “No one is saying your life doesn’t matter. No one is saying your life is not hard.
“No one is saying literally anything at all about you…. All you mfs [motherf**kers] do is find a way to make everything about yourself.” [sic]
While Pink’s repost received more than 260,000 likes, a handful of people in the comments were unimpressed - but she wasted no time in hitting back.
One user wrote: “When you single out one race and say ‘that; race matters, You ARE implicitly saying other races don’t matter as much. This could happen to any one of us.”
Pink replied: “You are the epitome of white privilege and the saddest part is that you don’t hear yourself and probably never will.”
In the wake of Floyd's death, protests have taken place in a number of US cities - and a handful of European ones, including London - while celebrities have used their platforms to speak out on race and police brutality in the States.
Pink, real name Alicia Moore, shared numerous posts on Floyd’s death and useful ways to be an ally over the weekend.
On Sunday, she posted a list of organisations and funds to donate to, before praising presidential candidate Joe Biden for joining protestors on the streets in Delaware.
