Source: Twitter @cheynotshy
“This little white kid told me I looked like a cat today. I shoulda kicked him,” reads one of Cheyenne’s tweets from 2012 that has been circulating. One from 2011 reads, “My mom said I can’t see The Help, she knows I already have a problem with white people.”
These tweets are upsetting to many, but they’re nothing compared to the last one: “Last night I saw it and I wanted to kill every white person I saw.”
She also retweeted a tweet that read “[Cheyenne] and [another Twitter user] are the only nazi-loving, black power-having, ‘kill-a-white-baby-if-I-could’ people I can accept & adore.”
Source: Instagram @cheynotshy
Obviously, these tweets are several years old, and Cheyenne has had a lot of time to change since then… but fans are pretty angry that MTV decided to hire her regardless.
“You cannot say sh*t like this and then become a paid TV personality and expect it to be okay. Sh*t on the internet does not go away. You f*cked up. I hope MTV would not offer a job to anyone that said something like this towards any group of people. The end,” wrote reddit user Floflo80.
User silver_kays wrote, “If people online easily found this you’d think whoever does the research for hiring would see it too. Media loves feeding the racism fire. It’s a ‘hot topic’ in their eyes and it makes me sick.”
Obviously, fans aren’t very happy with this pick — but now one former Teen Mom star is speaking out as well.
Credit: MTV
Jenelle Evans‘ husband David Eason has a long history of getting on the bad side of MTV. In fact, he was recently fired from Teen Mom 2 after going on a homophobic rant on his Twitter. It’s no surprise that he isn’t a huge fan of the network, but now he’s speaking out against them.
“WOW MTV Ive kept my mouth shut for too long!” David raged in a lengthy Facebook rant. “MTV is such a hypocritical liberal network that you still keep racists, drug addicts and potential rapists on your shows as long as it meets your political beliefs? (Yet you are against gun rights which protects my family from those kind of people).”
David soon made it clear that his rant was directed at Cheyenne. “I’m sickened to hear that Cheyenne Floyd said she hates white people and wants to kill them all!” he wrote. “WELL HOLY SH!T I’m the bad guy even though I never said I hated anyone or wanted to kill them. Yet I received death threats from you morons?”