cawacko
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(To see her Instagram posts and other instagram responses you need to click on the link. I wasn't able to copy them over.)
Many people who listened to music in the early '90's will probably remember Sir-Mix-A-Lot's cross over hit 'Baby Got Back'. One of the famous lines in it was Mix-A-Lot talking about a woman with a LA face with an Oakland booty. So Lively posted a picture of his face and a picture from the back at a recent event. Now she's being accused of cultural appropriation and racism.
Jarod and Zappa think political correctness is only angry white males wanting to say the N word. So is this Hollywood liberal now an angry white racist male?
Blake Lively Says That She Has an 'L.A. Face With an Oakland Booty'
Actress Blake Lively added yet another entry to her long list of being passively racist in a recent Instagram post, in which she stated that she has an “L.A. face with an Oakland booty.”
The post, which was uploaded on May 17, features a split-screen photo of the actress, with one half showcasing her front, and the other her, well, back. The caption references the Bay Area city of Oakland, which has a traditionally sizable POC population.
While Lively’s caption is most likely a nod to Sir Mix-A-Lot’s bar-mitzvah staple “Baby Got Back,” which includes lyrics that match Lively’s caption, it’s still problematic. In the end, it touts a diametrical opposition: that Los Angeles can be equated to elegance and/or beauty (read: whiteness), and that Oakland is its foil (read: blackness).
http://jezebel.com/blake-lively-says-that-she-has-an-l-a-face-with-an-oak-1777246470
Many people who listened to music in the early '90's will probably remember Sir-Mix-A-Lot's cross over hit 'Baby Got Back'. One of the famous lines in it was Mix-A-Lot talking about a woman with a LA face with an Oakland booty. So Lively posted a picture of his face and a picture from the back at a recent event. Now she's being accused of cultural appropriation and racism.
Jarod and Zappa think political correctness is only angry white males wanting to say the N word. So is this Hollywood liberal now an angry white racist male?
Blake Lively Says That She Has an 'L.A. Face With an Oakland Booty'
Actress Blake Lively added yet another entry to her long list of being passively racist in a recent Instagram post, in which she stated that she has an “L.A. face with an Oakland booty.”
The post, which was uploaded on May 17, features a split-screen photo of the actress, with one half showcasing her front, and the other her, well, back. The caption references the Bay Area city of Oakland, which has a traditionally sizable POC population.
While Lively’s caption is most likely a nod to Sir Mix-A-Lot’s bar-mitzvah staple “Baby Got Back,” which includes lyrics that match Lively’s caption, it’s still problematic. In the end, it touts a diametrical opposition: that Los Angeles can be equated to elegance and/or beauty (read: whiteness), and that Oakland is its foil (read: blackness).
http://jezebel.com/blake-lively-says-that-she-has-an-l-a-face-with-an-oak-1777246470
