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What this Little Wayne issue reminds me of...

posted 8 years ago by sierra17
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It reminds me of the issues that arose from that new disney princess movie kid's costume. The rock's character. The character is buff, has tattoos and where a grass skirt (no shirt). The costume has mostly padding with the character's skin tone (obviously not white) amd tattoos with the skirt. This got a LOT of hate, calling it racist. And Disney pulled the costume.

But how were they suppose to make the costume? I don't see anything wrong with it. If it was white, they would've been on called white washing (which would've been right).

This plot reminds me a lot of that. Both would be racist if it was a costume of a race. But costumes of characters/people are different, in my opinion. As long as you aren't doing horrible things like black face and/or using the character/person to mock that culture.

Thoughts?

[–] kolnoaMograbi 8 years ago

Don't know about the Disney costume, but I agree with your last two sentences. Lil Wayne is an icon, and Mingo copied his iconic look. The fact that he's black is irrelevant.

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