Since taking over as Chargé d’Affaires at the US Mission to Afghanistan last year, Karen Decker has been a strong critic of Taliban for barring women from gaining an education and cracking down on female activists.
But her recent tweet in which she tried to include aspects of Black History Month into her Afghan-centred content backfired badly.
"Are Afghans familiar with #BlackGirlMagic and the movement it inspired?" Decker asked. "Do Afghan girls need a similar movement? What about Afghan women?"
"Teach me, ready to learn," Decker added, tagging performers Beyonce, Lizzo, and Regina King.
The the hashtag #BlackGirlMagic created in 2016 is is used on social media 'to celebrate the accomplishments of black women, and is often posted alongside photos of attractive African-Americans'.
But since Decker wasn't aware of this Twitter was only too happy to let her know saying that it was only Lizzo who could take the Taliban down:
https://twitter.com/OnMemoryBliss/status/1625921002713612290?t=4LE1vm-y9JXK2BB1PvWoqw&s=08
Some were prompted by Decker to acknowledge some truths about themselves:
https://twitter.com/CBedfordDC/status/1625908088288030720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1625908088288030720%7Ctwgr%5E5d5369ac875c420979afe284806bc06a16451108%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fu-s-official-calls-on-lizzo-to-help-teach-blackgirlmagic-to-afghan-women-subjugated-by-the-taliban
Others were more sombre and gave more of a reality check:
https://twitter.com/DanCollins2011/status/1625934024790183954?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1625934024790183954%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=
And others just went with the flow offering even more stellar advice in the same vein:
https://twitter.com/jarvis_best/status/1625919084327219201?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1625919084327219201%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=
But her recent tweet in which she tried to include aspects of Black History Month into her Afghan-centred content backfired badly.
"Are Afghans familiar with #BlackGirlMagic and the movement it inspired?" Decker asked. "Do Afghan girls need a similar movement? What about Afghan women?"
"Teach me, ready to learn," Decker added, tagging performers Beyonce, Lizzo, and Regina King.
The the hashtag #BlackGirlMagic created in 2016 is is used on social media 'to celebrate the accomplishments of black women, and is often posted alongside photos of attractive African-Americans'.
But since Decker wasn't aware of this Twitter was only too happy to let her know saying that it was only Lizzo who could take the Taliban down:
https://twitter.com/OnMemoryBliss/status/1625921002713612290?t=4LE1vm-y9JXK2BB1PvWoqw&s=08
Some were prompted by Decker to acknowledge some truths about themselves:
https://twitter.com/CBedfordDC/status/1625908088288030720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1625908088288030720%7Ctwgr%5E5d5369ac875c420979afe284806bc06a16451108%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fu-s-official-calls-on-lizzo-to-help-teach-blackgirlmagic-to-afghan-women-subjugated-by-the-taliban
Others were more sombre and gave more of a reality check:
https://twitter.com/DanCollins2011/status/1625934024790183954?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1625934024790183954%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=
And others just went with the flow offering even more stellar advice in the same vein:
https://twitter.com/jarvis_best/status/1625919084327219201?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1625919084327219201%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=