#WhitePeopleBoycottingEBONY Takes Over Black Twitter

(Illustration by Diana Soliwon for USN&WR/Courtesy Ebony)

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For EBONY magazine’s September issue, the iconic African-American brand dedicates four covers to the Trayvon Martin movement that has gripped Black America for over a year.

After previewing the covers — depicting Miami Heat franchise player Dwyane Wade and his two sons, famed director Spike Lee and his son, actor Boris Kodjoe and his son, and Tracy Martin, Sybrina Fulton, her son Jahvaris Fulton — on social media, racist trolls stormed EBONY’s twitter mentions with bigoted comments, while a comment on Breibart.com, led to frenzied speculation that the Tea Party of America planned to boycott the magazine to protest the covers.

The threat of boycott was spread further by Jackson, Miss., doctor, Tom Head, who tweeted:

Heh. Tea Party lynching apologists now threaten to boycott @EBONYMag over the Trayvon cover, as if any of them would have subscribed anyway.—
Tom Head, Ph.D. (@_tomhead) August 07, 2013

This mild controversy led to EBONY‘s social media squad tweeting the following in response:

We have so many Tea Party readers and followers. To lose all zero of them due to our September cover would be devastating.—
EBONY (@EBONYMag) August 07, 2013

When the controversy turned out to be based on unsubstantiated rumors, it led to right wingers claiming that EBONY did not follow due diligence before tweeting about the supposed boycott. It also caused an avalanche of racist tears.

While radical conservatives struggled all in their feelings over being called racist on social media, the hilarious hashtag, #WhitePeopleBoycottingEBONY, took over #BlackTwitter and the brilliant snark has been flowing ever since.

Read some of the hilarious tweets below:

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