Second, the idea that back-up dancers in a video should NOT be props, ever, is nonsense. Miley's allowed back-up people in her video, because everyone is allowed back-up people in their videos. The singer is always center stage. That's how music videos work. That girl has been a prop her whole life, for Disney and for her dad and for us, to be whatever we want. Yesterday, she was Jezebel's prop for "Big Bad Racist." There are real, serious race issues in this country and Miley Cyrus is not one of them. Honestly, this feels to me like piling on the most obvious target because it's easier than looking at the deep misogyny in hip hop or exploring the complexity of the exchange of ideas and race relations in this country. Yes, this story got a ton of pageviews, but did it really elevate the conversation? Personally, I think it just gave white people who aren't twerking with black people in their video (all other white people besides Miley and like two others) another thing to pat themselves on the back about when they say, "Look! I'm not racist!" and then go back to their lives, glad they aren't young black men getting unfairly jailed, getting killed or beat up by police or each other. This sort of rhetoric doesn't change anything. In my opinion, it only makes things worse.

So what do you think? Should we let Miley twerk or not?

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