<p>Chet Hanks won&#8217;t apologize for what activists are calling &#8220;cultural appropriation,&#8221; instead telling his critics to &#8220;kick rocks.&#8221;</p>
<p>Chet, son of actors Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, has been <a href="https://level.medium.com/mugging-the-black-experience-on-adele-and-the-politics-of-appropriation-ceff5104ed8">accused</a> of so-called appropriating black culture for using a Jamaican accent. His song and music video for &#8220;White Boy Summer&#8221; has also been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/apr/14/chet-hanks-keeps-calling-for-a-white-boy-summer-and-he-really-needs-to-stop">criticized</a> in a similar racial vein by activists.</p>
<p>&#8220;Nah. I don’t feel like I’ve truly done anything offensive, so I don&#8217;t,&#8221; Chet recently told host Ziwe Fumudoh, when asked if he&#8217;d like to “apologize to any marginalized communities,&#8221; particularly the &#8220;Patois community.&#8221;</p>
<p>The &#8220;Ziwe&#8221; host asked if the actor felt this way because he viewed his alleged &#8220;appropriation&#8221; as merely &#8220;a celebration of culture&#8221; and believes &#8220;social justice warriors&#8221; complaining about him can &#8220;go kick rocks.&#8221;</p>
<p>Chet nodded in the affirmative.</p>
<p>“Yeah. I 100% agree,&#8221; the 31-year-old responded. &#8220;Social justice warriors can kick rocks.&#8221;</p>
<p>The video went viral, garnering 2.8 million views in a matter of hours.</p>
<p>WATCH:</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">i asked chet hanks if he wanted to apologize to any marginalized communities <a href="https://t.co/EEzD9VrtNs">pic.twitter.com/EEzD9VrtNs</a></p>
<p>&mdash; ziwe (@ziwe) <a href="https://twitter.com/ziwe/status/1522597482005475328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 6, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
<p>In 2021, Chet explained what the phenomenon of &#8220;white boy summer&#8221; is really about &#8212; and that&#8217;s apparently &#8220;interracial relations.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;White boy summer is me,&#8221; Chet <a href="https://exclaim.ca/music/article/chet_hanks_explains_what_white_boy_summer_really_means">told</a> YouTuber Andrew Callaghan.</p>
<p>&#8220;White boy summer is fun, inclusive; white boy summer is love,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;It&#8217;s about the white boys that love black queens — it&#8217;s the white boys that are tuned into the black girl magic. That&#8217;s really what white boy summer is all about: just shining a light on interracial relations.&#8221;</p>
<p>Chet added that he&#8217;s preferred black women since &#8220;as long as I can remember.&#8221;</p>
<p>The rapper recently made headlines when he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tom-hanks-son-chet-speaks-candidly-about-toxic-upbringing-in-hollywood">spoke</a> out about &#8220;toxic&#8221; Hollywood culture in a video titled, “The Truth About Growing Up As A Hanks.”</p>
<p>&#8220;While Chet said he’s &#8216;blessed&#8217; to be part of a family he loves, the experience of growing up with very famous parents was a &#8216;double-edged sword,'&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tom-hanks-son-chet-speaks-candidly-about-toxic-upbringing-in-hollywood">The Daily Wire</a> reported.</p>
<p>“There’s a lot of advantages but sometimes it can be pretty weird,” he said in the video, which was published in February. “I got to do a lot of cool s*** that a lot of people don’t get the opportunity to do. I got to travel the world, stay in nice hotels, fly on private planes and I’m very blessed for that. I wouldn’t change my situation.”</p>
<p>“My experience was even more complicated because on top of fame already being toxic, I wasn’t even famous,” Chet continued. “I was just the son of somebody famous so I hadn’t even done anything to deserve any sort of recognition and that created a lot of contempt.”</p>
<p>“People would make up their minds about me before they even got the chance to know me and it was extremely hard to break down their walls,” the &#8220;Empire&#8221; alum added.</p>
<p><strong>Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tom-hanks-son-chet-speaks-candidly-about-toxic-upbringing-in-hollywood">Tom Hanks’ Son Chet Speaks Candidly About ‘Toxic’ Upbringing In Hollywood</a></strong></p>

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