Imma address this now and be done with it. Let me tell yall a story about a group of boys who were raised in a homogeneous society, were barely taught anything about black culture aside from music and idolized a hip hop culture without truly understanding some of its aspects +
https://twitter.com/CannibalIceDoll/status/1441912690666991617
They were one day jamming to a song (a rap song) which had the n word in it a lot of times like multiple times and these boys who at the time were ignorant of the context and breadth of this word just sang along to the lyrics of this song not understanding that they should not+
Have. And they were on camera just jamming to the song. Well as expected people called them out, some more aggressively and harshly then others and people explained to them the connotations of the word and from then on these boys went on. Did their research and have learned and +
From that mistake. They've continued to push for cultural education and have adapted an attitude of always trying to understand and educate themselves about others people's cultures and music genres before attempting those genre in order to show respect and acceptance to all +
These boys have gone on to change lyrics of their own songs to avoid making others uncomfortable, advocated against racial discrimination, and when they travel to other countries they make sure to find out about the culture there so they may be as respectful as possible. +
Ladies and gentlemen that is called growth! As Black army who's been here since pre-debut I'm proud and I've been proud of these boys. They apologized, learned from it and grew. And to this day people always bring this incident up whenever they wanna slander the boys. So to baby+
Baby army who dont know or to those of you who dont know about this incident im here to tell you the truth and the factual way that this supposed "racist" thing that these boys did that they love to put on namjoon only because he's the leader. Just so you know Korea does +
Have their own version of the N word that has its own connotations and concept (I'm not gonna get into it today) but it's basically based on ignorance. Also again I keep having to explain that korea is its own country with its own history and social concepts and systems +
And also the fact that you can't expect people to know everything as soon as they start out in life. And these idiots refuse to acknowledge that the reason they keep on bringing up something (an isolated incident I may add) That happened in 2013, like 8 years ago is because +
They have no other way to get at the boys because they have no leg to stand on to hate them or berate them. So they keep picking at old wounds that have scabbed over hoping to pull out blood and we should not give them that luxury. These boys never shied away from their mistakes+
They took responsibility and gre from them, all of them, unlike other groups whove done worse and have been way more offensive on multiple occasions and never apologized, and kept making the same mistakes over and over again and kept getting a pass. I'm not gonna mention names +
Because I'm not looking to start a fandom war but some of these groups are famous and prominent. Groups doing things like blackface, saying the n word and more. So yeah don't let haters fool you, they are all hypocrites. Here's the clip they use
Make your own judgement from it. I can only speak from my pov as a black girl living in america and as someone who's been a fan of the korean music scene since 2008 and who's seen it all. These people are huge hypocrites. I can talk about multiple misogynistic and racist +
Incidents that have been covered up and where fans were supporting the artists even when they didn't make an effort to learn or change. I'm just saying don't let these fakers fool you. I don't need another D-2 Incident on my hands again.
Ps: a quick look at korean history also can explain why they are such an homogenous and had closed off themselves to the outside world for so long. Yall claim to like korean artists and korean culture but you don't make the effort to understand those things and expect the world+
To bed to your whims and to fit within the small box that is your minds and scope of understanding. That's absolutely foolish
Actions speak louder than words. This is 5 years after the "video", and 3-4 years after they came to America to learn more about the culture that fuels the music they make. And later they've spoken about learning more about other genres of music and cultures before approaching + 
Or using those in their music or videos. A great example us the amount of research that went into making IDOL and the very respectful and beautiful ways in which they incorporated many different African trademarks and influences in their own koreanness. To give a message of love
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