People continue to call out Ellen DeGeneres after she posted a tearful video about racial injustice

• Ellen DeGeneres shared an emotional message about racism and Black Lives Matter to social media on Monday, but users were more focused on calling her out for allegedly treating her workers poorly.
• "I don't know what to say. I am so sad, and I am so angry," a tearful DeGeneres said in the video. "And I know I'm not gonna say the right thing."
• "I have a platform, and I have a voice, and I've always stood for equality," she continued, telling viewers she wants to be a voice for the voiceless.
• "This has gone on way, way, way, way too long. People have gotten away with murder," DeGeneres said.
• While her message was clearly meant to inspire empathy, some people pointed out that she'd been accused of mistreating and underpaying her own staff in recent months, among other troubling allegations.

Ellen DeGeneres posted a tearful video calling out racism and discrimination on social media, but people were more focused on calling her out for her allegedly problematic behavior in recent months.

"I don't know what to say. I am so sad, and I am so angry," an emotional DeGeneres said in the video, posted on Monday. "And I know I'm not gonna say the right thing, and I know there are gonna be a lot of people who are gonna be in disagreement about what I say."

"I have a platform, and I have a voice, and I have always stood for equality, and I always wanted to be the voice for people who didn't have a voice," she continued. "Because I know what that feels like."

The talk show host acknowledged that some people might not understand the scale of the violence, but that it's necessary to understand it in order to "heal it."

"I'm just so sorry that it's come to this," DeGeneres said. "This has gone on way, way, way, way too long. People have gotten away with murder."

She concluded her video by calling for "fairness and justice for all," and acknowledging that we have "a long way to go" before achieving racial parity.

DeGeneres' video came after protests against police brutality and the death of George Floyd grew in recent days.

And while her message was clearly meant to inspire unity, some people took issue with DeGeneres' apparent hypocrisy in calling for equality and empathy when she's allegedly treated her own workers poorly. Others encouraged the wealthy host to donate money, instead of just making videos.

An earlier tweet from DeGeneres about Pride Month and the Black Lives Matter protests also caused a similar backlash amongst her followers on social media, who called her a "racist" and a "hypocrite" and focused on her friendship with former president George Bush.

This isn't the first time DeGeneres has been called out for her social media responses to the protests and death of George Floyd. On Monday, she deleted a tweet about racial injustice in the US after some fans called her out for being vague and hypocritical.

Screenshots of the tweet appear to show DeGeneres advocating for racial equality and denouncing "injustice" after protests in response to the death of George Floyd after a Minnesota police officer was filmed kneeling on his neck for eight minutes grew over the weekend.

"Like so many of you, I am angry and I am sad," DeGeneres wrote, according to screenshots. "People of color in this country have faced injustice for far too long. For things to change, things must change."

"We must commit ourselves to this change with conviction and love," the message read.

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