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Azealia Amanda Banks
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Later that month Banks tweeted that the descendants of prominent slave trading families "should all have their houses burned and their finances seized." She also sent direct messages to James DeWolf Perry, a descendant of James DeWolf, who was an eighteenth century politician and slave owner, demanding details about his finances, adding "I think white men all need to be locked away in a psych ward… Considering the atrocities committed by white men ON THE WORLD" and "someone should kick your ass, and punch you right in your stupid smiling cracker face."
In February 2015, Vice associate editor Mitchell Sunderland wrote a piece titled "My Bizarre Twitter Beef with Azealia Banks and Her Homophobia" about an exchange the two had. In response to the piece, Banks tweeted at Sunderland, "do you know that your mother pushed you out of a pussy?" The two argued over a period of days, with Banks stating, "and even if i am a homophobe… so wat? i still make more $ than you.. still have an extra hole.. and still own everything."
On September 22, 2015, Banks became involved in a confrontation with a fellow passenger and the flight crew while attempting to exit a Delta Air Lines flight that had just landed in Los Angeles. According to witnesses, Banks was attempting to squeeze past other passengers to disembark the plane more quickly, when a French man blocked her path. Banks reacted by spitting in the man's face, punching him, and clawing at his shirt. Subsequently, a flight attendant stepped in and demanded that Banks calm down. This resulted in Banks forcefully arguing with the flight attendant, in which she at one point called the Delta employee a "fucking faggot".
After the airliner incident the following September, Banks posted to her Instagram feed that she had "never felt the pain of not being white the way I've felt it since I've been a public figure." That in itself was not controversial, but then a younger fan reminded her that "the vile things you say" about gays caused them just as much pain. Her response was a series of comments beginning with "imagine how I wanna spray a gay man in the face with pepper spray every time he calls me a bitch a slut or a hoe" and culminating in a suggestion that the original commenter would eventually end up "murdered and stuffed under a truck somewhere" after a Grindr date. Later she deleted the comments and apologized, but Vulture, pointing to recent artistic and commercial setbacks, saw it as "the increasingly desperate behavior of an artist who recognizes that her career is listing, badly ... She's falling fast, and no longer is anything about her spectacle entertaining."
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