Is It Racist When Abby Lee’s Only African American Dancer’s Solo Act Is “Bye Felicia”

Every so often I pop through the living room and catch the Ms. watching Dance Moms. It’s a show on Lifetime based on Pittsburgh’s own, Abby Lee Dance Company and stars a text book Yinzer Broad teaching girls how to dance.   

This week the producers came out slinging subtle racial jokes, by way of the classic line from Friday, “Bye Felicia”

Damn Abby Lee. It’s apparent in the episode she had a problem with this specific student of hers and was trying to find a way to hide her in the back. But is sending the only African American student she’s got on stage to perform a solo entitled “Bye Felicia” racist or just an epic way to secretly tell a student and her mother to kick rocks?

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