BLM co-founder slams Taylor Swift fans as ‘racists’ and Travis Kelce-led Chiefs winning the Super Bowl as a ‘right-wing, white-supremacist conspiracy’

• Melina Abdullah unloaded criticism of the pop singer and her boyfriend online
• ‘Virtually everything is racist,’ the BLM Los Angeles co-founder wrote online
• She doubled down, calling Swifties ‘full-fledged violent white-delusionists’ after receiving a heated voice message from an unknown man

The co-founder of a Black Lives Matter chapter has criticized Taylor Swift fans as ‘racists’ and referred to Kansas City’s Super Bowl victory as a ‘right-wing, white-supremacist conspiracy’ in a series of posts on social media. 

Melina Abdullah, 51, a professor of Pan-African Studies at Cal State University Los Angeles, expressed her opinions on the pop singer and her athlete boyfriend over the span of two weeks.

‘Why do I feel like it’s slightly racist to be a Taylor Swift fan?’ Abdullah wrote on February 11, the day of the Super Bowl.

‘I said FEEL, not think,’ she continued when another user asked her to elaborate. ‘Kind of like that feeling I get when there are too many American flags.’

Hours later, after the Kansas City Chiefs were declared the winners, Abdullah wrote: ‘Why do I feel like this was some right-wing, white-supremacist conspiracy?!?! Booooooo!!!!’

As her posts garnered attention from other users, Abdullah stood by her viewpoint. ‘Folks think they’re attacking me by asking why I think everything is racist…I’m not offended,’ she wrote. ‘Virtually everything is racist.’

In response to one commenter, the advocate clarified: ‘And I’ve also decided to work with all my might and in a community of committed people to upend racism and oppression.’ 

On February 23, Abdullah returned to social media to share a voice message sent by a man who criticized her as ‘a joke,’ ‘ignorant,’ and ‘what’s wrong with this country.’

‘How dare you throw out the racist ideas you throw out on a daily basis?’ shouted the man, who identified himself as Ethan George from Texas, before saying that he wished she would ‘die.’

‘If this is what a tweet about Taylor Swift fans being “slightly racist” brings, I’ll edit myself…Y’all are full-fledged violent white-delusionists,’ Abdullah wrote.

The 51-year-old is also a co-director of BLM’s advocacy wing, Black Lives Matter Grassroots. 

She took legal action against the Los Angeles Police Department in 2020 after they raided her home during a reported swatting incident. 

On August 19, 2020, the LAPD received a 911 call from someone who claimed he had taken people hostage in Abdullah’s Crenshaw home.

In court documents filed with California Superior Court, the mother of three expressed concern that LAPD SWAT officers might harm her children by firing their weapons into her home.

She accused the LAPD of not reaching out to her beforehand despite having her contact information and alleged that the department orchestrated the incident in ‘retaliation’ for her activism.

She further claimed that law enforcement did not genuinely believe the reports of an ongoing hostage situation.

As evidence, Abdullah pointed to an instance where police allowed her security guard, whom officers did not recognize, to pass through a perimeter and enter the home while they surrounded it.

Two neighbors were also given permission to enter the home to check on her and walk with her as she came out to speak with officers, according to the lawsuit.

Abdullah labeled the response ‘an effort to suppress protest, to target me as someone who’s been very vocal and visible in protesting LAPD.’

She experienced two more swatting incidents after the lawsuit was filed.

In a different legal dispute, Abdullah and BLM Grassroots accused Black Lives Matters Global Network Foundation Inc. of soliciting donations based on the work of city-based chapters and excluding activists from decision-making.

BLM Grassroots consists of twenty-four BLM chapters across the nation, who argued that they were owed tens of millions of dollars from the national foundation.

However, the case was dismissed by a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge last year due to the activists’ failure to substantiate their claims of being entitled to the funds, among other allegations.

Abdullah expressed the group’s ‘shock and disappointment’ at the court’s dismissal order.

‘As always, the work of Black Lives Matter continues, regardless of the court ruling,’ she vowed in a statement.