Well it certainly seems your up on your rap game right now. I'll have to defer to you, I don't listen to as much rap as I used to, and definitely not current stuff. Yes, the big names will eventually tackle some issues. I'm a huge Kanye fan, and it's a lot of why I respect him. I would think having some depth would be…

I haven't listened to Iggy's music. I bet she doesn't engage the difficult aspects of black culture, but maybe she does have a few "deep" tracks about history. Are you saying she's shallow? Because that's 75-95% of rap unfortunately. (for a bit of context, I was unaware of her racist tweets at the start)

yeah, I'm against this notion that because she's white and successful at hiphop: 1 she needs a black history lesson, 2 she only got that way because she's white, 3 all her critics are right and proper (looking at you Banks) or 4 she is disrespectful for wearing her black culture influences on her sleeve. I'm not a fan…

I was willing to respect her style only because I read her bio and it said she moved from Australia to ATL in her teens, lived on the streets on ATL and learned how to rap there. And King of the South T.I. (I'm a big fan of his) vouched for her.

"He wasn't being "too nice," he was being classy."

You know, when I first heard Fancy on the radio I thought, "Da Brat is back! Why is she calling herself Iggy?"

Well you finally did it. You got a old nerdy Kotaku reader like me on a Jalopnik page. Well done, well done.

yikes, okay. well, if that's the case, then Q-Tip was a little too nice don't you think? and hopefully this hurts her sales and all that.

I'll give you that: if she turns out the be racist, that's one thing (she deserves no defense for being racist). But that's not what Q-Tip is addressing. What's the point of him saying that to a racist? He even said "this isn't a chastisement at all" It seems he was more like trying to educate a well-meaning but…

That's a scary-ass GIF. But the question still stands.

OK now we're getting somewhere. "She's a modern minstrel show" Blackface, huh? That's a heavy charge. Did you know Iggy moved from Down Under to the ATL in her teens and lived in America since? When you live in an area you pick up the slang and speech mannerisms. You claim she "acts black", but can't it be that she is…

Ouch. that's in bad taste. although she did say she didn't mean she was a slave owner and that "master" was meant to apply to "mastering the past"... IDK, I don't listen to Iggy or think she's a particularly good artist.

Rather pointless. "Blah blah blah hip-hop blah blah blah slavery blah blah blah white privilege"

This site can't stay consistent. Most of the time, white people have a near mystical powerful voice which should be used to elevate the less privileged. And Iggy disparages protestors and makes light of a black death. That's just "being an idiot" now? What happened to all that great power great responsibility mantra?…

I don't think the people here are looking for rewards or pats on the back for being decent. Some just want to say out loud what they are doing (and some is above and beyond), especially in response to an article that seems to say "even the good whites aren't really good perhaps". She (the author) seems uncomfortable…

Part of the point or message of the article seems to be that the author isn't sure. The good whites don't seem to be good. And some of the bad whites think they're good. From her point of view, perhaps there are no good whites, or it's impossible to tell a true good from a bad pretending to be good from a deluded bad…

OMG you win this article! Can someone STAR THIS PERSON PLEASE!?!?!?

That's actually really interesting. I can't say whether MLK and the Civil Rights Movement gave the "good white people" who joined them a suspicious once over and conflate their actions and intentions with actual violent racists like the author seems like she would, but nonetheless they seemed to accept them in the…

power? can we please stop deifying white people?

While this was well written and somewhat entertaining and thought-provoking, it's missing a point. What's the author's point? Maybe it's a Fine Arts thing, and as a writer of fiction she's more inclined to set stages and describe emotion, but really, what's the point?