Paris Jackson is such a gift, right? So beautiful and smart and lovely.
But, as we’re learning now, Wendy Williams doesn’t see things that way.
No, Wendy, as she divulged on her talk show on Wednesday, actually has several issues with Paris, and they all came up as she was discussing Paris’ new Rolling Stone cover and interview.
One of Wendy’s biggest issues with the cover was that she even made the cover at all.
“She has not made her mark on her own,” she insisted. “You cannot be on the cover of one of the most prestigious entertainment and influential magazines in the world and just be ‘the daughter of’ and tell your story inside.”
“Sorry, you all.”
For one, Wendy’s obviously not sorry, and for two, it looks like Paris can be on the cover of “one of the most prestigious entertainment and influential magazines in the world.”
Because she is.
Oh, and for three, while Paris is definitely most well-known for being Michael’s daughter, she’s also become a public figure in her own right in recent years.
She’s featured in celebrity news and gossip all the time these days, people care about her beyond just being MJ’s kid, so why shouldn’t she be able to speak with a huge magazine about herself?
Another big issue that Wendy has with Paris these days is that in the interview, Paris stated that she identifies as black.
She said that Michael “would look me in the eyes and he’d point his finger at me and he’d be like ‘You’re black. Be proud of your roots."”
“And I’d be like, ‘OK, he’s my dad, why would he lie to me?’ So I just believe what he told me. ‘Cause, to my knowledge, he’s never lied to me.”
Paris acknowledged that most people who didn’t know her family history would assume she’s white, but she also pointed out that many kids with one white parent and one black parent look a lot like her.
Needless to say, Wendy wasn’t having it.
“I get that she considers herself black and everything,” Wendy began, “but I’m just talking about the visual.”
“Black is not what you call yourself, it’s what the cops see when they got steel to your neck on the turnpike. It’s what they see.”
“But that’s cute,” she added. “And good for her.”
Wendy has a point that Paris will never face some of the issues that darker-skinned people will face, but she’s wrong in that Paris can call herself black if she wants to.
After all, despite his skin condition, her father was black. It’s really not all that hard to figure out.
But before you get too bothered by Wendy’s condescension, know that Paris has already taken care of it.
Paris tweeted “She seems to think about the family a lot considering she makes all these claims about us. Why are we on her mind so often.”
Then, when Paris saw a tweet from a news site about how Wendy doesn’t want her to call herself black, she responded “Well she didn’t birth me so.”
It’s so good to see Paris so sassily standing up for herself, and we’re glad that she doesn’t seem too upset by Wendy’s nonsense.
Because that’s all that Wendy is capable of: nonsense.
