Tweets Is Watchin’: ‘Peas Frontman Reacts To Blackface Backlash
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If you felt some type of way about will.i.am‘s misguided make-up choices at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards, you’re not alone. Twitter’s right there with you.
The reaction on Twitter to will.i.am’s fashion fail started as a whisper when he hit the red carpet, and roared on when he hit the stage with Nicki Minaj and later sat in the audience looking like a cut character from The Wiz.
The comments ranged from confusion:
…to humor:
… to downright outrage:
And guess what will.i.am thinks about your opinion?
And apparently, a few people actually agree with him:
Guess we really are living in a post racial society, when the man who originated d**k-riding Obama can walk around in public in blackface.
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