Remember yesterday when Blake Lively was at the centre of a racism storm, albeit in a teacup, because of her Instagram post from Cannes Film Festival?
Well, in that post, she quoted none other than rap legend Sir Mix-A-Lot saying, 'L.A. face with an Oakland booty' from the world famous 'Baby Got Back'.
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Now, I can't say I've ever watched Gossip Girl but from what I hear from my friends who have watched it is that Blake Lively is amazing, and she can literally do absolutely nothing wrong. Which is why I can't imagine for a second that her caption in that post is remotely racist in any way.
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But this is the 21st century and a lot of people appear to have a burning desire to take offence at even the most innocent of things. You know, see above.
Anyway, Sir Mix-A-Lot has now jumped to the defence of Lively.
He told Hollywood Reporter: "That song was written with African-American women in mind, but trust me, there are white women with those curves everywhere, and they were once considered fat. And that's what the song was about. It wasn't about some race battle.
"So I wrote this song not as a battle between the races. I wrote the song because I wanted Cosmopolitan, I wanted all these big magazines to kind of open up a little bit and say, 'Wait a minute, this may not be the only beautiful.'
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"I mean, I don't look at Serena Williams as fat. I don't think she has an ounce of fat anywhere on her. I didn't want there to be one voice. I wanted to say, 'Hey, us over here! What we feel like is this'."
The man himself has now told everybody that took offence to basically chill the fuck out.
And I personally couldn't agree more. There are far more prominent racism issues out there that need talking about, not the size of Blake Lively's rear end.
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Words by George Pavlou
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