It’s only Wednesday, but Tom Hanks ’ son Chet Hanks has already had quite a week in the press. Just after revealing on a podcast that his love for cocaine was so extreme that even “cokeheads” told him to “chill,” the Hollywood star’s son is now having to clarify what he meant by “white boy summer” in a series of 2021 social media posts and subsequent song and rap music video, now that the phrase has been co-opted by white supremacist groups. The questionable phrase was a play on words from rapper Megan Thee Stallion ’s “Hot Girl Summer” song from 2019.
Hanks clarified his stance on Instagram this week, following a New York Times story about how racial hate groups had turned the phrase into a meme. “White boy summer was created to be fun, playful, and a celebration of fly white boys who love beautiful queens of every race,” Hanks wrote in the post on Wednesday. “Anything else that it has been twisted into to support any kind of hate or bigotry against any group of people is deplorable and I condemn it.
” This isn’t the first time Hanks has had to clarify the phrase, as it gained new meaning within racial hate factions. He took to Instagram in March of 2021 to explain that “white boy summer” was meant as an embrace of Black culture. “I’m not talking about, like, Trump, NASCAR-type white” he said in the post, and added that he was likening himself to white music artists who embrace predominantly Black genres like Jon B.
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