tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580924321504500249.post2873170289122495422..comments2024-03-27T19:51:27.762-04:00Comments on Oddness/Weirdness: Kpop WTF: G-Dragon's Blackface ControversyErikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12709114210707661423noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580924321504500249.post-86092588540045414942022-07-31T07:53:48.739-04:002022-07-31T07:53:48.739-04:00Because it’s a generation of exposing people and p...Because it’s a generation of exposing people and putting people in a negative light and all these racism activists like to believe everyone else around them is racist and try to expose them when they are the racist snowflakes themselves who easily get offended by someone who appreciates and loves their culture. GD grew up in Biggie and Tupac (two big influential hip hop artists) to GD; THIS was music. And here people get offended because he portrays a man of urbanism, again, not insulting, just the snowflake community is offended by everything. Get over yourselves and your stupid cancel culture, grow some cojones and man up.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580924321504500249.post-49505603233415293282014-06-19T21:04:34.099-04:002014-06-19T21:04:34.099-04:00What GD did for Coup D'etat isn't anything...What GD did for Coup D'etat isn't anything related to race or skin color. It's just to make the contradistinction with his 1st album (which has the 3D full-white face as the cover, shown in the MV), expressing the "coup d'etat"/revolution concept.<br /><br />Why nowaday people like to take blackface out of context?sorryimabadboynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580924321504500249.post-51066828257534878052014-05-31T02:32:44.457-04:002014-05-31T02:32:44.457-04:00Id like to leave my two cents on this, just for wh...Id like to leave my two cents on this, just for whatever reason. If you look up charcoal mudmask, it looks exactly the same as what GD has on his face. You say you didnt mean malice when you wrote this comment, but at the same time you say what he did upset you. O.o What exactly did he do? Take care of his skin and dare to post a picture of it? Also, why even post the picture of the Vogue shoot? That isnt blackface, they are dressed up like that for a cover shoot and representing artists like micheal jackson and andre 3000. I saw americas next top model, where Tyra Banks, had the models dress up. She painted the black girls white, some were painted to look asian and some white girls were painted and posed to look like blacks. They did it for art and what he did with the Vogue shoot was for art as well. So why even post it if 1 It was for art and 2 Vogue was behind the entire thing and they were just doing what the artist/photographer wanted them to do for the concept? I mean its pretty obvious he isnt racist by now since he idolizes black people. Also I agree with others, he shouldnt take down the picture cause he didnt do anything wrong.Leaannanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580924321504500249.post-67110645352869712582014-05-31T02:24:53.477-04:002014-05-31T02:24:53.477-04:00This comment was 10 months ago and im just now rea...This comment was 10 months ago and im just now reading it, but id like to point out that 10 months ago we still had a black president and there are black people in office. Id also like to point out that not every white person has power and white people live in the ghetto and live off welfair just like black people.Leaannanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580924321504500249.post-11343763352992075222013-10-25T00:22:05.015-04:002013-10-25T00:22:05.015-04:00I honestly don't think he meant anything by it...I honestly don't think he meant anything by it. Now, I'm personally against anything that has to do with racism - but that goes both ways. I think the main issue with black-face is that if you want to dress up as someone who is black, you need to change the color of your skin. Nobody will think you're Obama, Morgan Freeman or Oprah unless your skin is tan. I get why in SOME CASES (like some of the really ridiculous gag shows, where they obviously over-do everything) it can be really humiliating for people of color, because they tend to assign this crazy persona to people of color, but I think the main problem here is that every time someone says "black", people of color go into defense mode - at least that's my experience. It's like they get SO OFFENDED by someone else stating a fact; that they're of color. I personally don't understand why anyone would take the color of their skin as an offense. If my friends were to dress up as me, you betcha they will color their skin a SUPER pale yellow - because let's face it; my skin is pale as death and I have ridiculously yellow undertones. Why would I take offense to that? It's what I look like and I can't help that. A character is not the just color of the skin - the color of skin is a physical feature. It expresses what a person looks like and says nothing about their personality or human traits. I heard the outcry of people of color in the kpop fandom going INSANE, claiming that G-Dragon tanned for the ONE OF A KIND music video because he wanted to seem more black and "gangsta". I don't get it. I've heard ridiculous amounts of racial slurs thrown at myself, and I don't take offense to it. I personally feel that if I were to take offense to someone pointing out that I am white, caucasian of descent, then where does that leave me? I think it does nothing but point out that people have a depressingly low selfesteem. I don't think doing "black-face" is racist - I think associating all people of color with "gangsters" or guns is racist. B.A.P colored some of their faces black in their new MV teaser - does that make them racist towards mixed races or black people in general? No. Had G-Dragon been racist, he would've colored his skin dark and added a comment, that would portray racism. He would've associated the color of his skin with something racist - to me, he didn't do that. He just posted a picture of himself with his face skin colored dark. Being black is not racist, being white is not racist and being Asian for that matter, is not racist. The COLOR does not make you racist - the statements do. And in my eyes, GD did nothing racist. His face is black. So what? It could've been for a photoshoot or a face mask for all we know.나니noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580924321504500249.post-31749117866591586432013-10-25T00:22:04.371-04:002013-10-25T00:22:04.371-04:00You saying "as GD apparently has done here&qu...You saying "as GD apparently has done here" makes it seem like you're only getting offended by what he did, because someone told you that you should get offended by what he did (or did not do). I see nothing racist in what he did. I even posted the picture on my Facebook for feedback and several people commented "Wow that looks like something from the Grudge or a horror movie". NOBODY said anything about "omg racist" or "is he trying to look black?" - and none of them were born or raised in Korea; they were all brought up in the Western world well familiar with occurrences of racism and how to behave to avoid it. If I saw a tan girl wearing too light of a foundation, I wouldn't scream "racist" at her. If my Asian friends wanted to dress up as Celine Dion, put on a blonde wig and apply face paint to their skin to match - does that make them racist? Imitation is not racist. Mocking, stereotyping and assaulting is. And from what I see in this photo.... he did no such thing.<br /><br />The history of black-face is upsetting. I don't disagree and I find it disgusting that people found it funny to degrade, mock and make fun of people of color. But I will add that times have changed. Black-face was especially used in modern gag shows and still is being used - and I don't like that many Korean gag artists are using it to make fun of people of color. However, I think that we need to realize that not ALL people that are NOT of color are out to get people of color. GD is a performer, he's an artist and he's a model as well. He has done INSANE things over time and much of it is done to provoke. He has never (to my knowledge) done ANYTHING to be malicious or mean or mock anyone. I personally think that by now... SOME people of color are simply waiting for famous people (or even people that are not out in the public as celebrities) to do something that CAN be misunderstood as racism, label it racism and then go at it like hyenas on a cadaver. I'm not saying that ALL people of color are like that, I am just saying that some of them (and I know one of them) are EXTREMELY sensitive. <br />The definition (or one of the many) goes: "racism; prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one’s own race is superior." - GDragon did no such thing and I don't think it's fair to say that him ASSUMING that all people of color are of color.. is racist, because it's a prejudice. Because that... that is just ridiculous -__-"나니noreply@blogger.com