TV personality and E! host Giuliana Rancic criticized a black actress on Monday for showing up to the Oscars with dreadlocks, saying they probably smelled like weed.
Rancic’s comments about actress and singer Zendaya Coleman were made on Monday night during E’s Oscars edition of the show “Fashion Police.”
“I love Zendaya’s style, and I love when she has the little hair — she just had it,” Rancic said, critiquing an image of Coleman. “I think this — she’s such, she’s just such a tiny frame that this hair to me overwhelms her. Like I feel like she, she smells like patchouli oil. Or weed. Yeah, maybe weed?”
Coleman didn’t take kindly to Rancic’s comments and took to Twitter to respond on Monday. The actress noted that “there is a fine line between what is funny and disrespectful” and criticized the comments as “ignorant slurs and pure disrespect.”
— Zendaya (@Zendaya) February 24, 2015
Rancic apologized to Coleman on Tuesday via Twitter.
Dear @Zendaya, I’m sorry I offended you and others. I was referring to a bohemian chic look. Had NOTHING to do with race and NEVER would!!!
— Giuliana Rancic (@GiulianaRancic) February 24, 2015
h/t Gawker
Thanks Obama!
For real…there’s really no other way to characterize the explosion of brazen racist nonsense from the media and the RWNJs than to call it punishment or revenge for having elected a black man as POTUS. It’s a big fat “oh yeah!!! well, we’ll show you!!! teach you a lesson right quick!!!”
Giuliana and the “Jigaboo” Journalist on the Fox affiliate have all the prerequisites for their own CNN talk show. Maybe Rudy Giuliani and Don Lemon could join them on the couch–as the comic relief.
Pardon me - what’s ¨E!¨?
She smells rancid.
Coleman doesn’t need any help. She handled the ignorant, insult comic all by herself and handled her very well.