[NB] Sam Okyere speaks out about Uijeongbu High's blackface parody

[kittykoo]

This whole situation makes me really pity Sam. I watched his discussion about blm on AsianBoss and comments section was flooded with hate from Korean netizens (I can only imagine how much worse twitter is), so this isn't even exclusive to a few sites or the top comments. I actually do hope this blows up internationally because this is just ridiculous. Even if people choose to ignore the very easily assessable (especially now) history of blackface its still offensive. Most of the posts were using the excuse about the hashtag that he used to hate him or that since he has a platform, he was somehow wrong to give his opinion. 

I don't want to start ranting, I was just genuinely shocked by the flood of comments, in both Korean and English, trying to justify this. One would think on a video specifically about blm, people would try see things from his viewpoint, but no, in their eyes its more important that netizens justify their behavior and save Korea's image. Truly just pathetic.

Edited August 8, 2020 by kittykoo