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Of course, some people are angry at these kinds of things, but thousands of others are also focusing their anger on a nearly 30-year clip of legendary poet, author, and civil rights activist, Maya Angelou. Angelou, who died in 2014, was following Twitter trends closely after the broadcast in 1990 of a TV show about him correcting a young woman who had called the long-time resident of the San Francisco Bay Area by his first name.
In the clip, a young woman of color, Kim, asked "Maya" how she spoke about interracial relationships.
Immediately Angelou replied, "Thank you, and first of all, I'm Mrs. Angelou, I'm not Maya, I'm 62. I've lived so long and I've got so much tried that a young woman like you, or another, does not have permission to come see me and calls me by my first name.
"It's the first, because at the same time, I'm your mother, I'm your aunt, I'm your teacher, I'm your teacher, you see?"
(Retweet the part where Angelou is compared to my aunt.)
But many people on Twitter have expressed their indignation, even their embarrbadment, about the clip. "Maya Angelou did not have to READ this innocent girl on national television like that," wrote Twitter user @Doogi_, accompanied by three emojis in tears.
Another Twitter user, @DragonflyJonez, said that the clip was becoming viral and the ensuing discussion "makes me relive all the zany moments that I answered by" yes ma'am "when a lady m & # 39; 39, said to stop calling my "I am and now I want to crawl under a rock and die thank you very much guys."
Maybe they have a point. Later in the TV programAngelou apologized to Kim for "his brevity".
Still, many people rushed to Angelou's defense. Some have mentioned the fact that Angelou had been dead for five years now as a reason why people should not talk about the clip.
"Maya Angelou is dead, that's the literal definition of indifferent boredom.You can stop trying to drag a new person dead every week when you're bored," wrote Ira Madison III, a television writer.
Others, jokingly (hopefully), have seen in the consternation aroused by Angelou's comments a reason to lose confidence in humanity.
"Know that Maya Angelou has a national tendency, because there are young people who are shocked that she asked a young woman to call Miss Angelou instead of Maya in a [29-year-old] clip, "wrote the journalist Yashar Ali." We are doomed. "
Check out how people reacted to this Maya Angelou clip telling a young woman not to call her by her first name.
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