Despite her proud feminist stance, Katy Perry still hasn't achieved full woke status due to her past sin of "cultural appropriation," but redemption may come soon for her, as she confessed to the crime during an interview with Black Lives Matter activist Deray McKesson. But will the SJWs grant her absolution?
According to Refinery 29, Perry "admits that she's 'made several mistakes' and calls out both her music video for 'This Is How We Do,' in which she wears braids and eats watermelon, and her 2013 American Music Awards performance, in which she dressed as a geisha."
"But Perry also confesses that she didn't realize she'd hurt people through cultural appropriation on her own and credits conversations with people such as her 'empowered angel Cleo [Wade]' for opening her eyes.:
Throughout the interview, Perry repeated that she could never fully understand the plight of black people.
"I listened, and I heard, and I didn't know," she told McKesson. "And I won't ever understand some of those things because of who I am. I will never understand, but I can educate myself, and that's what I'm trying to do along the way...I didn't know that I did it wrong until I heard people saying I did it wrong. And, sometimes that's what it takes. It takes someone to say, out of compassion and out of love, 'Hey, this is what the origin is."
As the social media trolls show, Perry did not receive the absolution she had hoped:
