How’s it going?
It’s Sussan Mourad here with Clevver News and Skai Jackson has had some words with TikToker
Mattia Polibio after he seemingly threw shade at her ‘Jessie’ character.
So apparently, Mattia Polibio uploaded a “Smash or Pass” video and allegedly referred to
Skai Jackson as “Zuri” her character’s name instead of her real name “Skai.”
She responded to him calling her Zuri, and according to screenshots obtained by the Instagram
account, the TikTok Room, she wasn’t thrilled about it.
Skai said quote, “It’s sad how I don’t even know him and he has something negative
to say.
I never spoke on his racist antics…
Anyway, it is what it is.”
And after seeing the TikTok Room’s post, Mattia commented back and said quote, “I
called her Zuri, big whoop.
Who cares?”
And he followed up with another comment that said quote, “I don’t know how calling
her a character that she played is negative, but whatever.”
And it wasn’t long before Skai chimed in again clarifying what she meant saying quote,
“He said, ‘But it’s not disrespectful when Zuri from Jessie does it,’ regarding
uploading a ‘Smash or Pass’ video.
Just don’t know what I have to do with him uploading a ‘Smash or Pass,’ that’s
all!”
And in her final comment, Skai seemingly ended the entire conversation saying quote, “No
bad energy on my end, we have bigger issues going on in the world right now.
Black Lives Matter.
RIP George Floyd.”
Mattia hasn’t publicly responded to Skai any further, but fans have taken to the comments
to share their thoughts on all this.
And for the most part, it appears that a lot of fans don’t think what Mattia did was
particularly offensive, like this person who wrote quote, “OH.
That’s IT?
I thought he disrespected her or sum”
This person also added quote, “who doesn’t call her zuri LMAOOO”
And this fan added quote, “why does she care if he call her zuri...zuri is queen”
But others brought up some of Mattia’s racist past remarks that Skai originally made referenced
to.
Prime example, this person who said quote, “not only does he say the n word...but he
loves to disrespect black women as well...so tired of this CHILD.”
And this person added quote, “I guess the black female actor cares you know be respectful,
you already got shit for saying The n-word maybe think”
And then this fan called Mattia out for another reason saying quote, “I care Bc she is more
than just a make believe character her name is skai she is 18 she doesn’t like being
called zuri so get the shit right son”
And while Skai didn’t call Mattia out for his specific past racist remarks in her comment,
she has been making it a priority to use her platform to call out anyone posting, reposting
and making racially insensitive posts.
Last week, she shared a message with her fans letting them know that if she sees any posts
that contain racial slurs, remarks, or videos being posted, she will be exposing those people.
And she has been doing just that.
Skai has been sharing photos, social media handles, schools, and workplaces of people
with racist posts to her over 550,000 Twitter followers.
She receives these offensive posts from fans and she revealed to Entertainment Tonight
that she has received over 3,000 DM requests over the past few days.
Many of the universities that Skai has tagged in her exposing posts have actually responded
to her saying that they are looking into the incidents.
And many people are praising Skai for calling out these people with racist posts like this
tweet that says quote, “@skaijackson been exposing these racist ass kids, especially
the ones on TikTok who be looking for followers!
Not just today...
She beeeeeeen doing this.... as she fucking should!”
This person wrote quote, “Keep fighting the good fight Skai”
And this fan said quote, “girl we love u exposing queen”
But there has also been some controversy and conversation around whether or not Skai is
doxxing people with her posts.
In case you don’t know what doxxing is, according to the Oxford dictionary, it’s
searching for and publishing private or identifying information about a particular individual
on the Internet, typically with malicious intent.
And some Twitter users are calling Skai out for allegedly doxxing under age minors.
Like this person who wrote quote, “You do realize she's doxxing people, right?
That will never be considered using her platform for good”
And “I wish she didn't dox kids.”
Skai recently spoke to Entertainment Tonight about her decision to expose racists during
an interview and made it clear that she is cautious when calling people out.
She said she will only call someone out if fans are able to provide many legitimate examples
of racist behavior and she also said that she is only exposing public info.
She continued saying, “I’m not exposing anything that’s private -- that’s one
thing I won’t do.
Everything that is said is public information.
You posted these videos, it’s out there to the public.
A lot of people have been trying to get me to post their address and number and I’m
like, no, no, no, that’s one thing I will not do.
I’m only posting public information.”
With all this being said, we here at Clevver also want to make sure we’ve made our stance
clear.
We stand against the injustices suffered by members of the black community and we stand
with every Black person who has tragically lost their lives due to the color of their
skin and police brutality.
We’ve linked some resources and places to donate down in the description below as we
will continue to cover these important stories and have these conversations.
Please share your thoughts on all this down in the comments below.
And please take a moment and click right over here to watch this video to know why this
issue is so important to us here at Clevver.
I’m your host, Sussan Mourad, bye guys.