Accidental activist': How Franchesca Ramsey transformed her viral moment into a platform for social justice
by Ngozi Ekeledo, Chicago Tribune
Jun 01, 2018
3 minutes
Franchesca Ramsey is very familiar with "internet trolls."
The comedian, actress and writer used to "feed" her fair share of them following the viral success of her 2012 YouTube video "Sh(ASTERISK)t White Girls Say ... to Black Girls" (which racked up over 12 million views and helped Ramsey land interviews with Anderson Cooper, NPR and BBC, among others). With the video's success, Ramsey went from a graphic design job at Ann Taylor to becoming a mouthpiece for the woke crowd as the host of MTV's "Decoded" and a former writer
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