Jennifer Lopez criticized for ‘AllLivesMatter’ tweet

Superstar Jennifer Lopez has come under fire on social media for using a controversial hashtag while promoting her new single.

The ‘Jenny from the block’ singer, 49, tweeted out the hashtag #AllLivesMatter while promoting her new single ‘Love Make the World Go Round.’

#AllLivesMatter has been used as a hashtag to counter the recent Black Lives Matter movement, that has sprung up amid shootings and brutality towards African-Americans by police. Some feel that using the #AllLivesMatter hashtag dilutes what many see as mass injustice against blacks.

So @JLo deleted her #AllLivesMatter tweet. Don't worry girl. I got you. pic.twitter.com/imyLtkCDW8

— WNA (@wordsbywanna) July 12, 2016

 

The celeb’s tweet was then deleted from her Twitter account yesterday after controversy swirled.

I really wish #AllLivesMatter was a movement for actual equality instead of being used as a tool to try to shut black people up

— Daddy (@_BasedMistress) July 11, 2016

you know #alllivesmatter is full of hate & ignorance bc they only speak to silence blacks & not speak on things like #DylanNoble

— rapunzel (@maddy_renda) July 9, 2016

Many celebs including Janet Jackson, Tyga, Mischa Barton, Jourdan Dunn has spoken out in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.

#BlackLivesMatter #CantBeStopped #AllLivesMatter #Unbreakable #ShouldaKnownBetter https://t.co/ApBZexjuIz

— Janet Jackson (@JanetJackson) July 7, 2016

#blacklivesmatter yes #alllivesmatter Too but its the BLACK LIVES being murdered! SO let's fix that first!!!!

— T-Raww (@Tyga) July 7, 2016

#policebrutalitymustgo #allbrutalitymustgo #weneedpeace #blacklivesmatter #whitelivesmatter #everyonelivesmatter pic.twitter.com/iUddAt0yxm

— Mischa Barton (@MischaBarton) July 8, 2016

Black.Lives.Matter

— Jourdan Dunn (@missjourdandunn) July 7, 2016

Lopez's new single co-features Tony award winner Lin-Manuel Miranda in remembrance of the 49 victims lost to the mass shooting at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub in June.

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