Girl, watch your mouth. It all started when the Girl, wash your face the author posted about cleaning his house and getting dirtier and dirtier.
In a clip from the post since deleted resurrected by Angie's treasureHollis referenced an April 2021 live stream where he talked about a woman “cleaning toilets,” noting that “someone commented and said, 'You're privileged AF,' and I say: “You're right. I'm super a privileged one, but I also worked myself up to have the money to have someone come twice a week to clean my toilets and I told him that and then he said, “Well, you're not related.”
Hollis' response was to explain that he had no interest in being relatable, noting that they liked icons and historical figures Harriet Tubman, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Marie Curie i Oprah Winfrey they were “all unrelated AF”.
While selling millions of copies of her books is cool, being a revered abolitionist is not.
Days later, Hollis issued an apology on Instagram, explaining, “I know I've caused tremendous pain by mentioning prominent women, including several women of color, whose struggles and successes I cannot understand.” He further continued, “I ignored people that hard work doesn't provide them with financial security, often because of inherently racist and biased systems.”
The has been added Girl, stop apologizing author, “The important thing for me now, something I should have done by now, is honestly to shut up and listen.”
