I saw a lot of people say "it's 2020, how come he didn't know about this, how come he's not educated, he stands up against racism so he should've known, etc.." so I would like to share my experience with ca as a non-American person.

First of all, I live in France so I have quite a lot of black people around me since this country has a lot of territory outside Europe because of colonialism

So.. I have very long straight hair and my black friends would always ask me if they could braid them. I didn't have a problem with it so I always let them. They would usually braid my hair in a bridal or fairy style so it was really cool actually (they were sooo talented)

But once they decided to make cornrows. Their whole family was there and they didn't mind, they were even quite excited about it? Anyways they did it and I had cornrows for like a week before I took them down. In this time nobody said anything about it

I couldn't have known that it was ca, and I still didn't know a few months ago, when I first came on Twitter... Even if I wanted to be educated about racism etc I wouldn't have even thought of looking up what culture appropriation is because I literally never heard of it

I would've never thought that a hairstyle could be offensive so I never looked it up. You can't be educated on something you never heard of... When I first watched kokobop and saw kai's hair I was just there like "oh it doesn't suit him" but I would've never thought more abt it.

I know that I did ca now, and I sincerely apologize for it. I am now educated about it and I can assure you that it will never happen again.

Now what I would like to talk about is that I just imagined.. If I was a celebrity and I knew a pic of me with cornrows would be released for the whole world to see just because I genuinely didn't know about it I would break down. First thing I did when I learnt about ca

Is to search for any pic of me in cornrows to delete it (I didn't find any btw, I guess I didn't take any because I looked ugly in it anyway ) but it would seriously take a toll on me if anyone released it, especially after I've been so vocal here and irl about racism...

And given the backlash Hongjoong is already receiving because of one picture, I don't wanna know how it'll be when the mv will be out. I can't even imagine how he must be feeling right now, please take that in consideration when tweeting about it...

We have to take in consideration that ca really isn't a something known outside of america and that if I, in France, never even heard about it, korean probably also didn't. We have no idea of what happens in America, I can assure you about that.

Hongjoong was probably educated, so please don't think that all he did was fake or not sincere. Culture appropriation is not something everyone knows about, even if they're against racism.

And saying that it happened before with other idols so the company should've known, I don't think what happens on Twitter really reaches the companies... Not many idols have apologized and their choreographer even said that they genuinely had no idea about it, especially since

Other idols have already done it, which means they didn't receive any backlash. And it isn't the first time KQ did it either, since San and Block B also did ca and idk how it went but it probably didn't reach the company.. Well now they know..

So please, think of Hongjoong and vote for inception since I can assure you he wouldn't want his mistake to represent their comeback. Think also of black Atiny's feelings, please be considerate.