Consider this a public service announcement brought to you by a black girl with some junk in her trunk.
Big booty girls (I’ll call us women from now on) stick together and I stick with more than a few white women.
The interwebs went ABSOLUTELY crazy over a split shot posted on the pregnant actress’ Instagram account with the words “An L.A. Face with an Oakland Booty.”
Lively has been called everything from racist to out-of-touch to privileged and classist.
She might be all of those things (lord knows she’s privileged to have that hot-as-fire husband Ryan Reynolds), but her post is not proof.
It is just an attractive celebrity showing off her attributes and making a pop culture reference.
In case you aren’t familiar with the hits of the 90s, the phrase “An L.A. Face with an Oakland Booty” comes from the Sir Mix-a-Lot’s somewhat sexist, buttastic and apparently everlasting hit song “Baby Got Back.”
Oh, you remember: “little in the middle, but she got much back.”
The ode to the butt was, of course, controversial back in 1992 and was briefly banned by MTV.
Even back then, we all somehow knew the song was something people would always love.
Only Whitney Houston’s version of “I Will Always Love You” sold more records that year in the United States.
Two years ago — my, does time fly — rapper Nicki Minaj used parts of “Baby Got Back” in her song “Anaconda.”
The ample buttocks has come a long way since 1992 and today is even more embraced.
The plump butt comes natural to some of us, but nowadays, other of us pay a lot of money to get those buns, hon.
We do side bins or sit ups. Fact is, Lively does have an L.A. face and an Oakland booty.
How is that a bad thing?
Having a shapely keister is a not a negative in today’s society even though some people name Becky (Oh my gawd) still attribute it negatively to black women.
Those kind of Beckys with the good and bad hair are racist, out-of-touch, classist and privileged.
Don’t get confused.
“Blake” begins with a ‘B,’ but the rest of the letters are different.
When we get to the bottom of it, this controversy is pretty absurd.
L.A. girls are more than just pretty faces and Oakland girls are about more than just booty.
Don’t get me started on the Oakland girls with San Diego booties or the Dayton girls with the Englewood faces.
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