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   *Sigh* 
   
   Here we go, again. We’re quite familiar with the work of the Tom Hanks-sired struggle rapper Chester Hanks, aka Chet Haze. His several attempts of making his hip-hop career happen have mostly been met with laughs, harmless ones at that. But now we meet Chet at the crossroads of desperation and tastelessness. In photo captions on his Instagram over the past couple of days, the white rapper is throwing around the n-word in several posts. 
   
   2 types of people in this world: those who know exactly what it is they want and are doing everything they can to get it; and those who just wander aimlessly through life because they are scared to death of failure. I've lost a lot of so called friends cuz they turned out to be the second kind. Fuck yall hating ass niggaz I'll never stop chasing my dream ☝🏻️☝🏻️☝🏻#OneLifeOneGodOneLove A photo posted by 🌴LA / WORLD WIDE 🌍 (@chethanx) on May 31, 2015 at 10:54am PDT 
   
   Check out the song me and my nigga @chillthatdude just dropped on my Soundcloud #Juice LINK IN MY BIO #GoListen!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 A photo posted by 🌴LA / WORLD WIDE 🌍 (@chethanx) on May 30, 2015 at 6:26pm PDT 
   
   The initial reaction to this from most of you will probably be: “This dude’s a clown. He doesn’t even deserve the attention.” And yes, that is partially true. He’s mostly a joke of a rapper and his clueless use of the word dovetails right with a sense of entitlement. But as a black person who is met with white people using the n-word on a regular basis, whether it be online or even in person, this sadly is not entirely foreign. Sure, there are white rappers who navigate this space well, like Yelawolf, who gave a great explanation of why he would never use the word, versus other artists like V-Nasty, who unabashedly said it, Eminem, who said it very early on before he was famous, or even Madonna as recently as last year. 
   
   Regardless, these are public figures — they have accountability. This goes just beyond music. For every one of the famous people who have used it, there are hundreds on Twitter and thousands in private who use it and don’t care about the consequences. I’ve met this kind of casual racism in the safest-seeming, innocuous ways — like going to Starbucks, walking into my apartment building, or even browsing on dating sites. And I know I’m not alone. 
   
   The point is, white people using the n-word is one of those things like wearing blackface. It’s acknowledged that’s it’s a bad thing, but people of color are also asked by those who minimize its offensiveness to “get over it,” or they’re deemed “too sensitive.” Maybe it isn’t entirely understood that most people of color are confronted with some sort of racism on a daily basis, but “it” would be something we wouldn’t have to “get over,” if “it” didn’t exist in the first place. 
   
   Tom Hanks is just too nice for all of this. 
   
   (Via Instagram) ||||| If you're not familiar with Chet Haze, consider yourself lucky. 
   
   The terminally causasian, private school-educated son of Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson is like Iggy Azalea without the talent. Just pretend for a second that Iggy Azalea has talent so that the analogy makes sense, okay? 
   
   Anyway, Chet is a plain white rapper, but the Iggy similarities don't end there. 
   
   The former Chester Hanks not only talks the hip hop talk, he walks the walk in the most cringe-worthy fashion imaginable. 
   
   Like Iggy, he's appropriated the culture with an affected "ghetto" accent and smackable attempts at "swag." Like Iggy, "huge embarrassment" is probably the best description for Chester. 
   
   Of course, even Iggy-Igs draws the line at the use of a certain racial slur commonly found in lyrics written by rappers who didn't wear blazers to grade school. Chet Haze, on the other hand, crossed that line over the weekend: 
   
   Next to the above photo of himself in London (So hood!), Chet wrote, "F-ck yall hating ass n--gaz I'll never stop chasing my dreams!" 
   
   Sadly, it looks as though this is becoming a habit for the young Mr. Hanks, as just two days earlier, he posted a photo of the rapper Juice, whom he referred to as "my n--ga" in the caption. 
   
   For the record, Hanks completed rehab last year, so his latest social media posts were presumably written while 100% sober. ||||| ... Good morning bae 🙇🏼 A photo posted by 🌴LA / WORLD WIDE 🌍 (@chethanx) on May 24, 2015 at 6:14am PDT 
   
   2 types of people in this world: those who know exactly what it is they want and are doing everything they can to get it; and those who just wander aimlessly through life because they are scared to death of failure. I've lost a lot of so called friends cuz they turned out to be the second kind. Fuck yall hating ass niggaz I'll never stop chasing my dream ☝ #OneLifeOneGodOneLove 
   
   The world is full of mysteries. Why does evil exist? How did we evolve consciousness? How did Chester M. Hanks, better known by his rap name Chet Haze, emerge from the loins of Tom Hanks? Keeping up with Chet Haze's fascinating life as "an up and coming MC... Born and raised on the West Side of the Westside's main city LA," is exhausting, requiring perhaps more attention than can be devoted by any one human, no matter how little they sleep or how much energy they have devoted to uncovering the secrets of the Haze, from his terrible music videos to his feud with Howard Stern , an equally immature but far more successful man over twice his age.One of the more perplexing areas of Haze Studies is the question of why, exactly, he thinks he is capable of wantonly using racial slurs on social media (especially as an extremely wealthy, privileged white man). Thankfully Gawker pulled this gem of a recent Instagram caption Truly, it is remarkable that Chet Haze has been given the great gift of ignorance, that he may say the things we all cannot, the things we recognize are horrifically inappropriate and insensitive. Thank God for Chet Haze, the man unbound by the restrictions of needing a job or for anyone to like him or basic human sensitivity. Thank God for Chet Haze, the problem child to end all problem children, and the greatest motivator of Colin Hanks' career anyone could imagine. Maybe he's just acting out for attention from his dad and from us -- but giving it to him just feels too good. ||||| [There was a video here] 
   
   Early Tuesday morning, Chester Hanks, the son of beloved white millionaire Tom Hanks, posted an Instagram video to explain that “hip-hop isn’t about race” and it’s actually extremely fresh that he says “nigga.” 
   
   By his own admission, however, Chet knows most of you won’t “get” it, so he accompanied his video with a 280-word screed about how “fuck[ing one’s] hating ass niggaz” is actually an inalienable right protected by the Constitution: 
   
   If I say the word nigga I say it amongst people I love and who love me. If I say “fuck yall hatin ass niggaz” it’s because that’s really how I felt at the time. And I don’t accept society getting to decide what ANYBODY can or can’t say. That’s something we call FREE SPEECH. Now I understand the older generation who grew up in the Jim Crowe era might have strong feelings against this. And that’s understandable... But what I’m saying is this is 2015... And even tho we are still far from where we need to be and black people are still being literally KILLED by a RACIST and fucked up system... We have also reached a point where the word can no longer have a negative connotation if we so choose. And who is to say only black people can use it? The way I see it, it’s a word that unifies the culture of HIP-HOP across ALL RACES, which is actually kind of a beautiful thing. It’s a word that can be used out of camaraderie and love, not just exclusively for black people. What’s the point in putting all these built up “rules” about it. It’s time to let go. You can hate me or love me for it, but can’t nobody tell me what I can or can’t say. It’s got nothing to do with trying to be a thug. It’s about the culture of the music. And that’s all I have to say about that (no pun intended) lol. It’s all love. Some people will get it, some people won’t. Either way, Ima keep living my life however the fuck I want. ALL LOVE. 
   
   So really, Hanks’ use of the N-word comes from a place of love. If only you “hating ass niggaz” could see that. ||||| Chester “Chet Haze” Hanks, caucasian son of beloved caucasian Hollywood A-lister Tom Hanks, took to Instagram this weekend to vociferously share his feelings on Hating Ass Niggaz. 
   
   Yesterday, next to a photo of himself in London, Chet Haze wrote: 
   
   2 types of people in this world: those who know exactly what it is they want and are doing everything they can to get it; and those who just wander aimlessly through life because they are scared to death of failure. I’ve lost a lot of so called friends cuz they turned out to be the second kind. Fuck yall hating ass niggaz I’ll never stop chasing my dream ☝ #OneLifeOneGodOneLove 
   
   And next to a photo of himself and a friend two days ago, he wrote: 
   
   Check out the song me and my nigga @chillthatdude just dropped on my Soundcloud #Juice LINK IN MY BIO #GoListen!!! 
   
   Tom Hanks most recently starred in the Walt Disney film “Saving Mr. Banks.” Chet Hanks most recently starred in an Instagram video of himself enjoying the first class seating on an international New Zealand Air flight. 
   
   [Photo via Instagram]
target: – Over the weekend, Tom Hanks' son used the n-word. Twice. Today he helpfully explained why no one should be upset about that. Gawker, not surprisingly, was quick to report both incidents (and to point out that Chester Hanks, or "Chet Haze," as the self-styled rapper goes by, is in fact white). The rundown: On Sunday, Chet posted a photo of himself to Instagram with a caption that said, among other things, "Fuck yall hating ass [n-word] I'll never stop chasing my dream." The day prior to that, he had posted a photo of himself and a friend—or, as he called it, "me and my [n-word]." Controversy ensued. (Sample headlines: "We Need to Talk About Chet," "Chet Haze, Pretend Rapper, Is Now Spouting the N-Word on Instagram," and "Chet Haze Drops N-Bombs on Instagram, Continues to Suck.") This morning, Haze posted another photo of himself to Instagram along with his explanation. It starts: "If I say the word [n-word] I say it amongst people I love and who love me." He goes on to explain the Constitution: "I don't accept society getting to decide what ANYBODY can or can't say. That's something we call FREE SPEECH." The history lesson continues: "Now I understand the older generation who grew up in the Jim Crowe era might have strong feelings against this." But, as he explains, it's 2015 now and the n-word is "a word that unifies the culture of HIP-HOP across ALL RACES, which is actually kind of a beautiful thing."