Below is an opinion piece written by 24-7KPOP owner Kim Lee in defense of GDragon, blaming Spin Magazine for "wasting everyone's time" and 'Livejournal bloggers' for "spreading hearsay on forum cites" and making the situation ''out of control'':
SPIN Magazine Fails To Do Homework, Accuses GD Wrongfully Of Racism 
We’d expect more from a major publication, not a quick glance at other sites before they write their articles.
On July 31, 2013, SPIN Magazine proceeded to waste everyone’s time posting an article titled, K-Pop Star G-Dragon Dons Blackface in Cringeworthy Trayvon Martin Homage. Their evidence: Because other sites (including a few Asian-themed ones) said it was so. The article starts off with a basic picture of GD performing at a concert in Seoul and then quickly escalates to a theme of “He hates Black people.” Although GD never mentions Trayvon Martin, the young African American teenager who tragically lost his life in Florida when a police academy reject mistook the teen’s candy bar for a gun (and whose killer was just freed of all charges by a jury), it took only one netizen to start a frenzy of “He has black stuff all over his face and wearing a hoodie…He must be making fun of Trayvon.” The publication even tries to lay on more racial tension, mentioning possible boycotting of the KCON’13 festivities by the NAACP.
Not only does the article in SPIN paint GD as a racist, they start to make up a picture of a crazy artist “with a past.” Although most of the KPOP world has forgiven GD for his marijuana scandal (yet it is legal to smoke as much of that as you want in the states of California and Colorado), SPIN has to bring it up, wanting their readers to believe this wacky guy from Asia is the new Kanye West (honestly, NO ONE can be that far gone but Yeezus). But, what, do you say? SPIN has evidence?! Where? Oh, this little snippet: “As with Frank Ocean, Diddy, the-Dream, and others after news of Martin’s shooting death broke last year, the K-pop idol wears a hoodie, in apparent tribute to Martin. But he’s also wearing blackface.” These are the images I pulled from Google, just typing in “Diddy + Trayvon Martin”:
But, Kim, aren’t you missing the big point? HE WAS IN BLACKFACE. Actually, this is the best part and proves that people like to takes things at face value in the internet age and not spare a few minutes to actually research for themselves: GD was actually NOT in blackface nor thinking of Trayvon Martin at all when he posted the picture.
Actually, YG Entertainment answered it nicely, taking the initiative to contact SPIN instead of the other way around: “GD was simply wearing different facepaint colors and this is a HUGE misunderstanding. The facepaint is only a color variation for his album cover which includes black, white, and red. It is in no way meant to be a political or racial statement. It’s being derived by a simple photo shoot where GD was using different facepaint colors for his upcoming album.” It has also become common knowledge that the sweatshirt in question isn’t even a sweatshirt: GD is wearing a t-shirt, pulled over his head, with the tag sticking out near the top of his head.
How did this whole situation get out of control? Easy answer: Bloggers, on their own personal LiveJournal sites, speculating and calling to arms anyone who they feel should be outraged. This speculation found its way to a known KPOP forum and the rest is history. Someone, who makes their living off of having a good public image, had their name and face blasted over several sites (even the Los Angeles Times) and the only proof they had in their hands was….fan opinion. That’s right. Now, in this day and age, if you don’t like someone or an “anti” of an idol or group, YOU TOO can go on your personal blog and a large publication can grab that as fact. This is indeed a sad world we live in. Anyone can be defamed at the price of website clicks. Although the issue has been addressed, SPIN Magazine and the author of the article have yet to apologize, choosing to instead save face and point the finger, citing: “Online forums [name withdrawn] and [name withdrawn] previously pointed out an alleged connection to the Martin tributes.” Way to do your homework, guy. Right now, we are not addressing the widespread trend of Blackface (something that has a hurtful past to African Americans) without knowing the repercussions. Instead, we are questioning the spread of “quick” journalism that now includes looking up hearsay on forum sites for a few quick traffic bumps. There should be some form of integrity still left in the reporting world.
so I posted ifuaskedmeto's post on fb a few days ago and one of my fb friends, a huge BigBang fan, posted this article on my fb page to clarify it for me
SOURCE: 24-7KPOP