"Redskins" controversy rumbles on

Inconvenient public opinion polls must be denounced

The Washington Post poll that supporters of the local NFL team’s name believed would end the debate has potentially reinvigorated it — along with sparking a new debate over whether there should even be a debate about the propriety of the name.

On Friday, a group of Native American leaders and activists (i.e., not “white liberal journalists”) held a conference call aimed at further criticizing the poll.

Via the Associated Press, California State San Bernardino sociology professor James Fenelon called the poll “immoral.” He also echoed concerns that the poll was not representative of Native American communities. Likewise, Amanda Blackhorse, who serves as the lead plaintiff in the case attacking the team’s federal trademark protection, called the poll “misguided,” adding that it won’t diminish attacks against the name.

“This issue is not about polling,” National Congress of American Indians executive director Jackie Pata added. “This issue is about human rights.”

Some would say that these voices carry much more weight that 450 unverified self-identifying Native American adults who said in response to a series of questions about the name that the name doesn’t bother them.

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More noose hysteria

No prizes for guessing that a white conservative did not put the noose there

According to NBC5 Chicago, DePaul University officials are investigating reports of a noose found on their Lincoln Park campus Thursday. The university sent out an e-mail alert to students, notifying them of the “horrific symbol of racist intimidation” that was discovered.

“These reports are being investigated and those found to be responsible will be held accountable,” the alert read.

The noose turned up a few days after a group of Black Lives Matter activists disrupted the speech of a blogger infamous for his conservative views, DNAinfo.com reports. The entire ordeal was caught on tape.

Footage shows Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos in the middle of speaking at a DePaul College Republicans event Tuesday when a demonstrator burst into the room blowing a whistle. “This man is an idiot,” the protester shouted to the crowd. According to DNAinfo.com, chaos ensued when more protesters hopped on stage with

Surprisingly, security never stepped in to stop the chaos, the news site reports.

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A Trump version of an apology

Native American writer Nicole Robertson objected to the Republican candidate’s continued use of the term “Pocahontas” to ridicule U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren.

As reported by Inforum, Trump made the aforementioned derogatory comment during a campaign stop in Bismarck, North Dakota on Thursday.

When Robertson, a member of the Cree Nation, told the Republican front-runner that she was offended by the remark, Trump apologized – before immediately referring to Warren as “Pocahontas” once again

Donald Trump’s comments about Elizabeth Warren stem from a 2012 controversy regarding the Massachusetts Senator’s ancestry. As previously reported by Inquisitr, Warren has stated that she is of Cherokee descent, but the claim has proven difficult to document.

A legendary Native American historical figure, the story of Pocahontas was also adapted for a popular animated film by Disney.

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Must not compare black skin color to chocolate



ALESHA Dixon has angered Britain's Got Talent fans after making an inappropriate comment on tonight's live show.

When talking to band Vox Fortura after their performance, she said: “Four sexy chocolate men, with amazing voices, polished to perfection, that was sensational well done.”

The throwaway reference sparked outrage on Twitter, with viewers calling her comments racially insensitive.

One asked: “Can she say that?! #bgt #cringe”

Another viewer said: “Get Alesha off Britain's Got Talent. She's so disrespectful and generally terrible! #bgt."

One more added: “Did Alesha just say chocolate men?! Imagine one of the other judges said that....”

Another tweet read: “Sexy chocolate men!! If a white person said that they would be called racist. Shut your mouth Dixon you clown”

Tweets continued to pour in, with one viewer complaining: "“#BGT So @AleshaOfficial is disrespectful to one act and then says 'chocolate men' Not great tonight. A public apology is needed! #BGT2016."

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Must not mock Islam

An asylum seeker who jokingly wore a T-shirt saying 'I'm Muslim, don't panic' was so savagely beaten by his fellow refugees that he had to be rushed to hospital.

The 23-year-old Iraqi had thought that his fellow Islamic asylum seekers would see the funny side, but instead they accused him of offending their religion and decided to teach him a painful lesson.

The man was attacked in the evening as he returned to his asylum seeker home in Berlin, Germany wearing the T-shirt which he had just bought.

He was allegedly confronted by three angry Muslims who ripped up the T-shirt and ran off after beating him.

Two of the alleged attackers, a 27-year-old from Syria and a 33-year-old from Lebanon, were later arrested on charges of aggravated GBH.

Police said a report would be prepared for prosecutors.

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Rage that Chinese prefer Chinese to blacks

A Chinese laundry detergent company is under fire over a new commercial which many have interpreted as racist.

The new commercial for laundry detergent brand Qiaobi shows a Chinese woman shoving a black man into her washing machine with one of the company's detergent pods and the man emerging as a light-skinned Chinese man.

The commercial reportedly started airing this month in China on TV and at Wanda Theaters and quickly spread online.

The shocking commercial begins with a Chinese woman walking up to her washing machine to start a load of laundry, when a dark-skinned African laborer holding a paint brush and wearing a stained white shirt enters the room and whistles at her in a flirtatious fashion.

The Chinese woman motions for him to come closer and the black man approaches as if to to kiss the woman. But at the last second, she feeds him a laundry pod and then shoves him head first into the washing machine.

She then slams the top of the washing machine shut and starts the cycle, jumping up on the appliance with a smile on her face as the man screams and groans from inside.

When the cycle ends, the woman opens the top of the machine and a cleaner, light-skinned, Chinese man emerges to her delight.

The commercial ends with the 'improved' man holding up one of the laundry pods and a picture of the detergent box appearing on the screen. 

As the Shanghaiist points out, this commercial is reflective of Chinese ideals for white skin. 

'Thanks to traditional beauty standards valuing white skin, many Chinese people have a well-established phobia of dark skin which unfortunately also breeds racist attitudes towards people of African descent, who are viewed by some as "dirty" simply because of their skin tone,' the website wrote.

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Chinese generally have a dim view of blacks -- and they don't have the American hysteria about race

La.: Critic of over-regulation gets condemned

He used satire, which is always dangerous these days

State Rep. Kenny Havard said Thursday he won’t apologize over his “joke” legislation that sought to ban exotic dancers from being overweight or older than 28 years.

He took a firm stand on Thursday, despite numerous demands he apologize, blaming the firestorm his comments created on the delicate sensibilities of a nation that he said is overly concerned with being politically correct.

Throughout the day Thursday, legislators openly castigated Havard for what they described as foolish, insulting and offensive behavior which they said has cast an unfortunate shadow over the Legislature. Gov. John Bel Edwards called the move “unfortunate” and “not funny,” while other legislators — male and female — said Havard’s comments were hurtful to women.

On Wednesday, the House chamber debated a bill to raise the age of strip club dancers from 18 to 21. Havard attached a formal amendment to the bill — which he quickly withdrew in the face of opposition — that would have mandated dancers could not be older than 28 years old and weigh more than 160 pounds.

The action quickly drew the ire of women legislators who said his bill was emblematic of casual sexism frequently displayed in the State Capitol.

Havard on Thursday denied that his amendment was directed at women. He maintained he was trying to make an example about how the Legislature is overregulating businesses. He voted favorably for the bill.

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IL: Mural of lynching taken out of public view

Once again history must be erased

A mural in Elgin that has been in place for 10 years and was modeled after the photograph of a lynching, has raised questions about its origin.

A controversial mural that depicts a crowd watching a 1930 lynching will move to the Hemmens Cultural Center, Kristine Rogowski, Elgin communications director, said Friday.

Councilwoman Tish Powell said the decision was made Friday afternoon to move the mural to Hemmens sooner rather than later.

A number of factors contributed to the decision to move it, including the threat of vandalism and how some are interpreting and reacting to the piece.

"We want to encourage people to come to the two meetings we have set up to talk about the mural," Powell said.

Elgin may have dropped the ball in not noting the meaning of the city-commissioned work when it was first put on exhibit more than 10 years ago, Powell said.

Elgin City Manager Sean Stegall, who was assistant city manager at the time of the commission, said he could not recall discussion of matters related to the content of the works of art.

The artist behind the Elgin mural that depicts a portion of a famous photo of a lynching of two black men in Indiana said the piece was intended to get people to ask questions, think about issues and consider their own place in history.

"The idea here was talking about lynching, asking questions, the history," artist David Powers said. "You don't want to be on that wall with these monsters. Anywhere. In any town."

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Big deal over minor incident in Massachusetts

American racist hysteria well and truly on display. Trump needed

Local police and the school superintendent are investigating the discovery of racist graffiti found inside Newburyport High School this morning around 8 a.m.

According to police, the single racially vulgar word targeting African-Americans was found scrawled in pencil on an elevator. A high school staff member reported the word to Principal Michael Parent.

It appears the word, about 2 inches in size and written very sloppily, was there for some time before being noticed. Posters and notices had been placed partially covering the slur, and it was uncovered after posted materials were removed.

The message was documented and removed, and the Newburyport Police Department was notified and is investigating. The message did not contain any threats and did not target a specific person.

“Though this appears to be an isolated incident, I am very disappointed that someone would write a racist remark in the high school. Newburyport has a progressive and inclusive school system, and this kind of ignorance sends an unwelcoming message to others,” Superintendent Susan Viccaro said.

The School Department is working with Mayor Donna Holaday’s Commission for Diversity and Tolerance to determine an educational and corrective course of action to prevent such acts of intolerance in the future.

An email detailing the incident and the department’s investigation is expected to be sent to parents this afternoon, according to a police spokesman.

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Big deal over minor incident

American racist hysteria well and truly on display. Trump needed

Local police and the school superintendent are investigating the discovery of racist graffiti found inside Newburyport High School this morning around 8 a.m.

According to police, the single racially vulgar word targeting African-Americans was found scrawled in pencil on an elevator. A high school staff member reported the word to Principal Michael Parent.

It appears the word, about 2 inches in size and written very sloppily, was there for some time before being noticed. Posters and notices had been placed partially covering the slur, and it was uncovered after posted materials were removed.

The message was documented and removed, and the Newburyport Police Department was notified and is investigating. The message did not contain any threats and did not target a specific person.

“Though this appears to be an isolated incident, I am very disappointed that someone would write a racist remark in the high school. Newburyport has a progressive and inclusive school system, and this kind of ignorance sends an unwelcoming message to others,” Superintendent Susan Viccaro said.

The School Department is working with Mayor Donna Holaday’s Commission for Diversity and Tolerance to determine an educational and corrective course of action to prevent such acts of intolerance in the future.

An email detailing the incident and the department’s investigation is expected to be sent to parents this afternoon, according to a police spokesman.

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Must not call drug addicts drug addicts

White House drug czar Michael Botticelli said Thursday that using “terms like abuser and addict” to describe people with drug addictions makes it less likely that they will get treatment.

“Funding isn’t our only barrier to expanding treatment. We also have an enormous hurdle to overcome, and that’s shame and stigma,” Botticelli said.

“Stigma is an obstacle for people reaching out, reaching recovery, and living healthy and productive lives. That’s because stigma breeds prejudice, discrimination. It alienates and isolates people. It prevents them from accessing treatment and even seeking it in the first place. It says you should be ashamed because you have a disease,” he said.

“In fact, research has shown that when we use terms like abuser and addict to describe someone with a substance use disorder, that person is actually less likely to be offered treatment or to receive treatment, and often contributes to negative public policy,” he said, adding “and this stigma extends to other aspects of recovery, including housing and employment opportunities so needed for people to be stable in their recovery. “

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Euro-court outlaws criticism of EU
       
THE European Court of Justice ruled yesterday that the European Union can lawfully suppress political criticism of its institutions and of leading figures, sweeping aside English Common Law and 50 years of European precedents on civil liberties.

The EU's top court found that the European Commission was entitled to sack Bernard Connolly, a British economist dismissed in 1995 for writing a critique of European monetary integration entitled The Rotten Heart of Europe.

The ruling stated that the commission could restrict dissent in order to "protect the rights of others" and punish individuals who "damaged the institution's image and reputation".

The case has wider implications for free speech that could extend to EU citizens who do not work for the Brussels bureaucracy.

Mr Colomer wrote in his opinion last November that a landmark British case on free speech had "no foundation or relevance" in European law, suggesting that the European Court was unwilling to give much consideration to British legal tradition.

Mr Connolly now intends to take his case to Europe's other court, the non-EU European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.

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"Redskins": Liberals Told Us This Was a Racist Crisis. It Turns Out No One Really Cares

The economy is in the tank, America's enemies are on the march, and what are liberals worried about? The names of American football teams and the ability of perverts to access women's bathrooms where they can peep on children.

Americans care very much about the latter, but it turns out that no one cares at all about the former. As Fox News notes: "A recent national poll found that nine of 10 Native Americans aren't offended by the Washington Redskins name".

The poll conducted by the Washington Post indicated more than eight in 10 said they wouldn't be offended if someone who was not a Native American called them that name.

A federal judge ordered the cancellation of the Washington Redskins' trademark registration in July, ruling that their name may be disparaging to Native Americans. The club is appealing.

Ninety percent of the random national sample of 504 Native Americans said the name doesn't bother them; 9 percent said it was offensive. Native Americans make up about 2 percent of the U.S. population.

Of course Native Americans are indifferent. They, like millions of other Americans, have many other things to worry about

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Opposition to free speech at the University of Minnesota

With the growth on college campuses in trigger warnings and safe spaces, shouting down speakers and blocking student journalists from public property, Prof. Dale Carpenter decided that the U of M could use a refresher in free speech.

He drafted a set of four “core principles” reaffirming what free speech is and how the U should uphold it. “Ideas are the lifeblood of a free society and universities are its beating heart,” Carpenter wrote. “If freedom of speech is undermined on a university campus, it is not safe anywhere.”

The four principles, which are modeled after the University of Chicago’s famous “Chicago principles” in defense of free speech, are:

1. A public university must be absolutely committed to protecting free speech, both for constitutional and academic reasons.

2. Free speech includes protection for speech that some find offensive, uncivil, or even hateful.

3. Free speech cannot be regulated on the ground that some speakers are thought to have more power or more access to the mediums of speech than others.

4. Even when protecting free speech conflicts with other important University values, free speech must be paramount.

Other universities like Princeton, Purdue, and Yale have adopted close versions of these codes. The U of M, however, has had a particularly difficult time getting behind them.

The Student Senate, Council of Graduate Students, and at least one faculty member have wrangled over the principles for months. As a result, Carpenter’s proposal has been tabled for the remainder of the academic year.

In March, the Council of Graduate Students wrote an official letter in opposition, calling the wording “tone-deaf,” “ill-advised,” and “deplorably patronizing.”

The group would prefer the University regulate speech by giving “special consideration to otherwise marginalized speakers.”

Jonathan Borowsky, spokesman for the Council of Graduate Students, explained that's not to say that the powerful and privileged should be shut down. Rather, the University should be expected to assume the responsibility of offering special opportunities for those who are not well-spoken or who use English as a second language to express themselves as well. Soliciting those students' thoughts could be a form of good "regulation," Borowsky says.

"We were trying to communicate that this proposal was really problematic even though we agreed with parts of it," he says. "People found it offensive. What people heard was there's just one right way to speak, and it contributed to an atmosphere where many felt like their views weren't welcome. So we sent a letter objecting to the free speech document, but also supporting free speech."

The grad students also took issue with the fourth principle, which urges students to fight speech with which they disagree using counter-speech instead of censorship. “The most effective response to offensive ideas is to rebut them with better ideas,” Carpenter proposed. “Speakers are themselves subject to criticism from within the community for the substance of their ideas and the tone of their words.”

This too was insulting.

“Some community members may believe that their points of view are habitually ignored, regardless of the quality of their ideas, due to racism or other prejudice, cultural difference, or differences in power,” the Council of Graduate Students responded. “These sentences, with no context or specificity, presume to know the best way for people to advocate for themselves.”

When members of the Student Senate discussed the core principles, they were also split on similar concerns of whether speech should be free even when it’s hateful, and whether reaffirming free speech is even necessary when everyone’s trying to “evolve intellectually in order to have hard conversations about such things as race and equality.”

Within the faculty ranks, engineering Prof. Catherine French also argued against free speech so long as hate speech is included in freedom of expression.

In the end, though faculty voted to support the core principles, students spoke up in opposition during the full University Senate meeting last week. The University Senate did not vote on the proposal, and will not meet again until the fall.

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The basic student objection seems to be that they want to PRIVILEGE some speech -- speech by minorities.  Clear racism.

Must not pretend to be homosexual

David Walliams has outraged Britain's Got Talent fans by "pretending to be gay".

The judge, who was married to model Lara Stone for five years, jokingly ran after a seriously sexy half-naked acrobat on tonight's show.

While he was hoping to make viewers laugh with the gag, he received a backlash on Twitter for allegedly offending the gay community.

One viewer wrote: "I despise @davidwalliams & his tired faux camp 'am I arent I' gay bulls**t. Being gay or camp is normal life not a lame joke to be used BGT."

Shortly afterwards, a different viewer tweeted: "Am I the only one who doesn't think David Walliams is remotely funny? This pretending to be gay crap is getting monotonous now."

The comments came after David got a tad over-excited when French act Charlie Placais walked out on stage wearing just a pair of jeans.

When the contestant walked off stage after dazzling the audience with his tanned chiseled torso, the judge jokingly ran after him.

After catching up with him, David wrapped his arms around Charlie's naked torso and told him he was "brilliant".

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Must not joke about rape

Ray Badran says he received death threats online from a joke he told involving the word rape.

That was one of the first tweets that Ray Badran received last year that make him realise something wasn’t right.

A few nights earlier, the Sydney stand-up comedian had been confronted by an audience member at a warm-up gig for last year’s Melbourne International Comedy Festival after she objected to a joke he made using the word “rape”.

In what Badran considers one of his worst gigs, he ended up walking off stage frustrated and saying “f**k off and die”.

The joke goes something like this: “If you’re black you can do jokes about being black, if you’re gay you can do jokes about being gay … so I’m not sure if you can tell just by looking at me but … I can do rape jokes.”

Badran estimates he had told the joke to about 50,000 people before that Melbourne gig last year without any complaints.

“It’s self-deprecating — that’s why I can get away with it,” Badran tells news.com.au.

And as far as his comedy goes, Badran says that joke is about as “edgy” as his stand up gets.

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'Luvvie' is as bad as the N-word(?)


(In both Britain and Australia, "Luvvie" refers to the influential clique in the entertainment and literary industry.  Their views are strongly Leftist and they are very sure about what is right and wrong.  They don't think much of ordinary people either.  They are happily elitist)

Calling actors ‘luvvies’ is as offensive as using racial slurs, Tom Conti said yesterday.

The 74-year-old star was backed by fellow veterans of the stage and screen Peter Egan and Dame Janet Suzman.

The three have become embroiled in an astonishing war of words with a Labour councillor after he called celebrities ‘livid luvvies’ for protesting about plans for a new supermarket in north-west London.

Shirley Valentine star Conti, who lives in a £17.5million mansion in Hampstead, told the Daily Mail that to use the word ‘luvvies’ was ‘as abusive as “Yid” or “n*****” and it’s a horrible expression.

The row began after councillor Theo Blackwell wrote to his local newspaper citing the endless complaints from well-heeled residents in the area, including Oscar-winning actress Emma Thompson.

He noted that they attacked plans from Tesco or Sainsbury’s but did not care about setting up ‘roadblocks’ to stop Ocado delivery drivers. Mr Blackwell also accused the same campaigners of making ‘spurious claims against the new Cycle Superhighway route’.

And he ended his letter by stating: ‘So let’s have less of the “livid luvvie” protests – not everyone locally thinks the same on all these issues.’

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Scotland: Football fans for free speech

On Sunday, I stood singing with thousands of my fellow Celtic supporters in Celtic Park. It wasn’t just because our team were being presented with the League Championship trophy (our fifth title in a row) or even because the sun was actually shining in Glasgow. No, many of us were bouncing because it now looks likely that the Offensive Behaviour at Football Act (OBFA), which has criminalised hundreds of football fans for singing ‘offensive’ songs, is set to become the first major battle of the new Scottish parliament.

Put another way, it looks like the OBFA is going to be scrapped. The Conservatives, Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems all oppose the legislation, meaning that the Scottish National Party (SNP) – which introduced the legislation in 2012 – is outnumbered in the Scottish parliament by 65 to 63 seats. The failure of the SNP to secure an overall majority in the Scottish elections means that the legislation is now extremely vulnerable.

We shouldn’t be under any illusions. When it comes to civil liberties, these parties can be every bit as illiberal as the SNP. Nonetheless, the removal of this toxic legislation from the statute books would be huge victory for those of us who have fought long and hard against the OBFA.

Under the OBFA, you can be sent to prison for five years for singing a song that a police officer deems offensive, either at a match, on the way to or from a match, or even in a video posted online. There is no objective definition of what constitutes an offensive comment or song – it is an entirely subjective law.

Instead, the police are left to decide what is and isn’t offensive. As a result, Dundee United supporters have appeared in court for calling Aberdeen fans ‘sheep-shaggers’ online; Celtic fans have ended up in police cells overnight for singing Irish republican songs; and Rangers fans have been sent to prison simply for writing and singing naughty things about Celtic supporters and Irish Catholics.

The overwhelming majority of people dragged before the courts under the OBFA have been working-class young men. This means that hundreds of young men have ended up with criminal records, have lost their jobs and, as a result, are unable to apply for all sorts of jobs in the future.

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Must not mention that there are a lot of Muslim suicide bombers

The leader of Italy’s second-largest political party was performing at a show in Padua on Saturday when he praised the victory in the mayoral election of "Bangladeshi" Khan, who is British and whose family are originally from Pakistan.

The comedian noted that London's first Muslim mayor is an example of what unthinkable surprises life can hold in store and as proof that one must never stop dreaming, only to proceed to joke: "Now I want to see when he blows himself up in Westminster."

The remark by the leader of the Five Star Movement (M5S), an anti-establishment party founded by Mr Grillo in 2009, came at a sensitive time as  his own party’s candidate, Virginia Raggi, is the leading contender to become the next mayor of Rome.

Stefano Esposito, a PD senator, demanded to know what the mayoral candidate  Raggi thought of the joke: “What does Raggi think of the racist insult that her boss directed at the mayor of London?

Same question asked by Ettore Rosato, the PD's leader in Parliament: "Racism and generalisation by Beppe Grillo is not funny and offend integrated people and free voters. What does Virginia Raggi say about Westminster?"

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Must not mention that African females tend to have large bottoms

Blake Lively thought she was being funny with an Instagram post, but a lot of people aren't laughing.

On May 17, the expectant mother shared a split photo of herself on Instagram while donning an elegant gold Atelier Versace dress. One of the images showed her from the front, looking stunning, her baby bump just starting to show. The other image of the split showed her from the back, showing off her derrière.



"L.A. face with an Oakland booty," she captioned the side by side post of her on a Cannes red carpet, where she has been effectively owning the film festival in the South of France.

The post has enraged many of her 8 million Instagram followers (and many others), as they felt that she is toeing the line of racism.

To be fair, some fans found the humor in Blake quoting lyrics from Sir Mix-a-Lot's 1992 curvy-girl anthem "Baby Got Back," in which he fondly raps about a woman's backside. Others, though, felt she was being intensive and they filled her Instagram with their displeasure.

"Unbelievably problematic," one person commented, "using women of color's bodies as a joke. I guess you just want people to know you're racist and you don't give a s---."

Another said Blake's caption "is pure racism and sadly no white folks will ever understand that. Nice bodies have no geographical nor ethnic limitations. She should be ashamed of herself and how much do you want to bet she's never stepped foot in Oakland in her privileged life?"

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