Sorry, but that’s your fucking opinion. But please, do tell me more about what I’m allowed to be offended by. My day isn’t complete without a white woman schooling me on racism.

you know, that is also a valid argument. The lyric just rubbed me the wrong way when I heard it as a kid. I don't necessarily feel that strongly about it now, though I still think Blake is an idiot for posting it.

No, as many other people in this thread have explained, it was about how the beauty of black women’s bodies were being ignored. I mean it’s pretty damn clear from the beginning that it’s a white vs. black thing.

I can’t speak for Sir Mix-A-Lot, but that does seem to be the message behind the song.

Yeah, it’s not stupid. Black women should be totally cool with having our bodies and butts fetishized and politicized by white people constantly:

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It is. You know Ryan introduced her to Sir Mix one time and they danced around their mansion. And she wants people to know she knows this song, guys.

It’s just silly to think that any reference to Oakland necessarily means “black people”

For the grays trying to kill me, it is tone deaf and passively racist. I’m just saying that we should keep in mind the context (like it is a lyric and 15 years ago this sort of thing was considered eye-roll worthy but not flat out racist) and that Beige Not So Lively probably doesn’t even realize the implications…

I just looked it up. When I lived in Oakland (throughout the nineties), it was the most integrated city in the United States. Now it is the second most integrated: it is, however, the first in diversity. Both charts can be found here.

her butt isn’t large tho

Very comfortable. Oakland is the most integrated city in the United States. And the nicest, most social, positive vibe I have ever experienced, anywhere. Lovely people. Like the best part of the seventies: communal, friendly, people looking out for each other, and totally cosmopolitan. So nice. Really such a great…

I can’t believe all these folks #ONHERE claiming to know the lyrics to Baby Got Back and don’t even know the story behind the damn song. This is the is the OG “Becky” song. It’s about how white racism dismissed black beauty. All anyone seems to know the big but part and forgot the whole beginning where he basically…

Do even know the whole song was about mocking white racism towards black women’s bodies?

And you do know that Baby Got Back was a celebration of black women’s bodies which were dismissed for being unfashionable because at the time in 1991 the fashion industry as it is in many ways now excluded black women from the industry. He is mocking the racism of white women

Thank you! Everyone who is commenting just saying she is taking a line from Sir Mix A Lot is still missing the point of the article.

I immediately got the Baby Got Back reference, but that doesn't make this any less cringeworthy. I always thought that was a disrespectful line in the song anyway (like, women from Oakland can't have a pretty face? WTF), and it's extremely tone deaf for Blake to caption her picture using it. She's got to be doing this…

I’M FROM SEATTLE. I KNOW THE WORDS BUT THAT DOESN’T ACTUALLY MAKE THE USAGE *ANY* BETTER. THE COMPARISON STANDS.

IT’S STILL KINDA RACIST IN THE WAY THAT BLAKE LIVELY QUOTED IT.

STOP, Blake.