Chet Hanks Responds To Report On His 'White Boy Summer' Becoming An Extremist Slogan

Chet Hanks, son of esteemed actor Tom Hanks, responded Wednesday after a report highlighted how his “white boy summer” phrase gave rise to a far-right slogan.

According to a Tuesday report by the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, the “white boy summer” phrase has been used by extremist groups around the world, including the Proud Boys and White Lives Matter, to “spread propaganda, recruit new members, and facilitate targeted hate campaigns including acts of vandalism and hate incidents.”

Hanks wrote in an Instagram post on Wednesday that that was not the intention of the slogan and his subsequent “White Boy Summer” music video, which appears to riff on Megan Thee Stallion’s 2019 song “Hot Girl Summer.”

“White boy summer was created to be fun, playful, and a celebration of fly white boys who love beautiful queens of every race,” the 33-year-old Hanks said in his post. “Anything else that it has been twisted into to support any kind of hate or bigotry against any group of people is deplorable and I condemn it.”

In his “White Boy Summer” song, Hanks momentarily emulates a Jamaican accent and raps aimlessly about getting money and women: “She let me beat it, I’m the white boy wonder, uh/Bad gyal, white don dada/Rude boy, it’s a white boy summer.”

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