Face it: K-Pop can be Ignorant.

    I've just recently discovered the world of K-Pop October of 2012, although I loved Jay Park before then because I discovered him through YouTube. But that's besides the point. 

As I've been pludging deeper and deeper into the endless hole that is the world of K-Pop, I've discovered something both shocking and disturbing to me. "KKK-Pop" as some have been calling it.  Just so you know, this is my view as a 16 year old African American girl.  

Some "KKK-Pop" scandels, aren't "RACIEST" as some people think.  I am not one of the fans who'd turn their head if they saw their favorite Idol say something raciest either, but I can tell the difference between the ones who are blatently raciest and the ones who are just hopelessly ignorant.  

As an observer of all of this, I will disect the ignorant ones from he raciest idols. Here we go...

IGNORANT IDOL SCANDELS:

1) Big Bang

I'm going to start off by saying I am definantly a V.I.P and they just so happen to be the first group I fell in love with in K-Pop, but GOOD GRIEF they have some ignorant moments.

Let's start off with Seungri's fear of seeing a black man in america. I literallt shook my head when I heard that.  It's not that Seungri is raciest at all, because he's not.  He's been around plenty of black people like Flo-Rida and worked with them during the Alive Tour, but he is IGNORANT.  Or just had a moment when he was talking out of his (Like come on, IS seungri we're talking about).  I do find it sad that his image of black men in america are "thugs" and "gangsters" with guns.  I feel like South Korea has their view on black people ALL WRONG. 
   We're NOT all gangsters and "hoochi mama's" who walk around with hair rollers in our hair wearing shower robes with plates full of fried chicken and watermelon drinking alchol out of the bottle with pictures of Kool-Aid for the kids. The image of black people drinking Kool-aide probably came becuase kool-aid is cheap to buy when people were having a hard time. AND IT'S DAMN GOOD TOO! (Everyone ing loves kool-aid, not just black people) But I'll save this conversation for later.

   GD& Taeyang has also had a scandel where they've said "nigga".  Ok, when I heard GD said nigga, I was dying laughing because I thought it was funny.  I'm not mad he said Nigga, I'm mad at the fact that he said it on a live broadcast center. GD WHAT WERE YOU THINKING!

Even if it was scripted, he shouldn't have said it.  When he was saying it, he was giving TOP a handshake and saying "Wassup, my nigga".  I've noticed that in the korean langage there is a word spelt like "niga" when romanized.  So I'm guessing he was referncing that word and comparing it to nigga, like a play on words. It was cheesy anyway.  I have no problem with people using nigga as a FRIEND type thing, but only when it's private. Like if GD and Flo Rida were best friends, and they called each other nigga on the down low, it'd be cool.  But I ALWAYS tell my friends outside my race never to say nigga in public. EVER.

  Taeyang on the other hand is just one living controversy.  He's also my bias.  Ok, this man used nigga on an online site, which was ... basically the same thing as GD and I feel the same way. Use that in private NOT ON A PUBLIC VIEWING SITE.  Also, people say that Taeyang had "BLACK fACE" and tried to cosplay omarion.  I was so done XD.  NOOO! Taeyang didn't have blackface, bruh he was just dark!  His hair type is thicker (I think). Taeyang just likes braids ok!? He's still a tad ignorant, but Teydaddy is just being Teydaddy.  That's just his perosnality. 

Now, the biggest facepalm is when BigBang was performing dressed up as the BLOODS from L.A. BIG BANG YOU DO UNDERSTAND THAT YOU WENT ON STAGE AS GANGMEMBERS RIGHT? LIKE GANGMEMBERS WHO KILL PEOPLE FOR NO REASON WHAT THE ARE YOU DOING! NO! Lmfaoooo, pabos.  They even made there way on WORLDSTAR (And they ain't even in a fight *JayPark voice*)

2) SNSD

Ok, Let me start this by saying I have not gotten into SNSD yet, and I'm sure I won't.  Sorry to SNSD fans around the world.  I'm not saying I HATE THESE MUTHA A'S like no, I don't.  I just haven't touched base with them yet. 

With that said, sadly I've already seen controversy with these ladies.  Let's start off with the popular Yuri.  I've heard a LOT about yuri and all I think of her is that she...well, she hasn't been around a lot of black people.  Her controversy is her mimiking what she thinks is a black person. She clapped her hand and pointed "cooly" and said "You diiieeeee." 
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I've never in my life witnessed a black girl say you die.  She also did the neck roll thing. (Well, tried too.) All I think of it is that she seems like a bubbly airhead. (Not trying to insult anyones bias, but I'm trying to say is that she doesn't know what she was doing at the moment.)

Now on the other hand we have Taeyeon

"For a black person, She's Pretty." Taeyon said referencing Alicia Keys.

For a BLACK PERSON.

She's not just ing pretty periode?  I think this time, she actually meant what she said, but she didn't mean to be offending about it.  But it's still ing rude.  FOR A BLACK PERSON. Really? Like she hasn't seen black people who were beautiful before.

This isn't raciest though. She didn't say she hates black people (although no one really knows what's in a persons heart) but what she said was still hurtful.  I know somewhere out there some beutiful black woman are die-hard fans of SNSD, and Taeyeon fails to notice this.  It feels like when some idols say "I love all my pretty fans" that certain raciest or types of people aren't included. Well, it feels that way with certain idols when they do ignorant . 

But BTW 

If Alicia Key's would've heard that comment about her, it would've been on and poppin' because Alicia Key's is an black activist! (She even tried out for the role of Huey Freeman for The Boondocks before the role was given to Regina King!)

3) KikWang

Out of all of the ignorance out of K-Pop, this hurt me the most. 

This video extreamly hurt my feelings becuase I genreally like(d) b2st but I feel hurt though.

I've only watched the video once, I'm really reluctant to watch it again.  It's of the infamous Kikwang "BLACK FACE" watermelon skit.  That right there is already wrong.  What the is up with korea and "BLACK FACE!" -.- My race is not a ing cos-play. I understand if you're doing a tribute, but why do you need to color your skin.

This skit was just too much.  "No a real black perosn would eat it more aggrasivly."

How the would you know how black people eat ing watermelon if you're not black?  You've might have seen one of your black friends eat watermelon but what a couple of black people do ISN'T WHAT ALL BLACK PEOPLE DO! 

I for instantce, am black and I don't particularly enjoy watermelon! BREAKING NEWS! BLACK GIRL DOESN'T LIKE WATERMELON! But sometimes I put on a front and eat it because I'm tried of hearing from my family "HOW YOU DON'T LIKE WATERMELON YOUR BLACK!" I wish people would STOP LIVING THEIR STEROTYPE! JEEZ!

Ugh this was so upsetting. What the guise!

4) Hoya

Hoya is a cutie.  Some people are confused about the fact that he wants to be black or wanted to be black.  He was even happy when he got a tan and was a darker completion.  That made me very happy because of the visual standurds in South Korea. YOU GO HOYA!

He said he would eat burgers with his friends and learn black slang.  See, what he doesn't know is that it's not nessicarliy "Black slang" I mean some slang black people use is: Nigga, Negro, niggy, ext.  But if its' something like "Aye, whats up with you tho?" "Aye you DTF?" "TURN UP!" it's not really "black" slang, it's urban slang. Not just black people use it.  That's all for Hoya. He's not that ignorant. INFINITE HWAITING! (So, people shouldn't even be mad at hoya.)

5) This raciest Pscho Writer named "Jenny Hyun"

"The world would be better without them [black people]" said psycopatic racist Jenny Hyun writer of some of SNSD'S songs.

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Ok, that's not how I actually feel, but the Gif. fits the moment.

Yeah...I think she's out of her mind, like she's literally crazy. Seriously. 

Esscpiciallt if she thinks that's how black people are.... O.O WAHT the FACK-

LEAST IGNORANT IDOLS: 

Since I've listed some ignorant idols, I'm the type of person to equal the positives with negatives so here we go ^.^

1) Bang YoungGuk

This man knows he likes his black culture.

 Haha, and this man is amazing.  Not only does he like black culture but he EDUCATES HIMSELF ABOUT IT! He read "Black Like Me" MULTIPLE TIMES. WHO DOES THAT?!  If you do not know what Black Like me, it's basically a real story about a white man during raciest times in america who went around with BLACKFACE and pretened to be black to see how people would treat him and wrote a book about it. Here's the SparksNotes summary:

John Howard Griffin, the author and main character of Black Like Me, is a middle-aged white man living in Mansfield, Texas in 1959. Deeply committed to the cause of racial justice and frustrated by his inability as a white man to understand the black experience, Griffin decides to take a radical step: he decides to undergo medical treatment to change the color of his skin and temporarily become a black man. After securing the support of his wife and of George Levitan, the editor of a black-oriented magazine called Sepia which will fund Griffin's experience in return for an article about it, Griffin sets out for New Orleans to begin his life as a black man. He finds a contact in the black community, a soft-spoken, articulate shoe-shiner named Sterling Williams, and begins a dermatological regimen of exposure to ultraviolet light, oral medication, and skin dyes. Eventually, Griffin looks in the mirror and sees a black man looking back. He briefly panics, feeling that he has lost his identity, and then he sets out to explore the black community.

This guy makes me really happy.  He even referenced Martian Luther King Jr.  See, I can already picture him dating a "forigner" of any race. Not even just a black girl.  Out of all the Idols, he'd be one to TOTALLY date out of his race.

2.) JAY PARK!

Ok, so not ONLY has this beautiful man chose a black girl to twerk dance with in his M/V "Know Your Name" in an interview, he said he didn't do it to be "The first guy with a black girl" or anything like that, he said he wanted a girl who was y and could dance and his friend hooked him up.  He acknowledge her as a human before a "black girl".  Which I really like.

Maybe it's because he's from Seattle and it's probably more deverse than South Korea, but the way Jay Park carroes himelf JOAAAAAAAAAAAH!

lol.

3.) EUNHYUK!

Honestly, I don't know much about Eunhyuk (or Super Junior periode) but I know this man is a sweetie!  When asked if he would date a forigne fan (by a black girl) he asked if she would marry him, and he grabbed her hand and "Skipped away".

I'm not sure if that's being "Non-ignorant" but it's sweet.

HONORABLE MENTIONS!:

Niel of Teen Top's cover of "Black and White" He's also a sweetie and his dad's a pastor not that it matters! RANDOM FACTS!

Yoo Youngjae of B.A.P for his appriciation of J.Holiday.  Some AMERICAN people don't even know who J. Holiday is. I DIDN'T even know what song he requested from J. Holiday on SuJu radio.  He requested "Forever Ain't Enough" aw, I hope Youngjae knows how cute that it.  I'D BE DEAD IF I HEARD HIM SING THAT! 
Not to mention his pre-debute cover of Gerald Levert whose also a african american R&B singer.  LMFAO my DAD listens to this guy.  Oh and the song "raindrops" is from Gerald Levert's album "G-Spot".

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This is the cover art: I have to put a link because I'm not sure I'll get banned for this girl in a bikini

And that's pretty much all I felt I needed to share!

Thanks for reading!