I feel like Erin is on "clean up crew" for other Jezzie writers lately.

Respectfully disagree. I think racial epitaphs should be retired. They are divisive, hurtful, and lazy. The phrase "white trash" makes my blood boil, for instance. Making fun of people because they are poor (even if the are White) is never, ever ok. Same with the term "ghetto" as a way to describe a poor PoC.

You caught me. I'm not a 34 year old Black woman in NY but rather a 73 year old White woman sipping champagne off the coast of Italy on her yacht. God, you're good. I'm calling you Sherlock Holmes from now on.

This article and other articles about Macklemore don't focus on the "system" it focuses on him.

And I'm Black. Does that make me a ni—-r in your world?

So the point of fighting for equality is to get "social credit"?

And yet you calling him a "cracker" is ok because...?

It's all fine and good that she used the dancers for satirical purposes but to me this is akin to how Miley Cyrus used WoC dancers or how WoC dancers are used in the stereotypical rap video. That is to say that the dancers are not, first and foremost being used for their ability as dancers—-their technique, training,…

It just seems like not liking plumbers because they work with pipes or not liking doctors because they work in hospitals. The very nature of a pop star is to be "popular", i.e., controversial, interesting, in the media, so that you remember them and buy their music/perfume/whatever product they are shilling for.

Only rich women get pedis and have meetings? I think it's more about being time-crunched...

As you can imagine since we are an 80% volunteer office offering sliding-scale (and often free) legal services to up-and-coming artists, we are under-staffed (boo) and quite popular (yay). Keep reaching out regularly and hopefully someone from our in-take department will call back to set up a time for you to come in.

Obviously your opinion is your opinion. It just seems like LG is singled out (in a negative way) by lots of people on Jezebel for trying to sell records, like that's an odd thing for a pop artist to do. That's how they all make the bulk of their livlihood. I just get confused because I see no difference between…

Don't all pop artists pander to a demographic to make money? Isn't that the entire business model of being a pop star? How is LG any different that Katy Perry, Jay-Z, Rihanna, One Direction, etc.?

No, that's not how magazines work.

A WoC here.

No to the bow-sash thingie. YES to everything else.

Awesome. Just what I needed on my Sunday, someone perpetuating the Mandingo stereotype. Sigh.

Perfection.

That's realllllllll short. She's gorg, but what about sitting down?

You know full well why you targeted me with your attack. Give me a break. I was actually really perplexed as to why you kept trying to put words in my mouth and when I asked two of my WoC blogger friends to read the exchange and help me understand WTF was going on with all the misquoting and lies they informed me that…