So now some people are upset because they see non-Black women with makeup that darkens their skin on Tyra Banks' America's Next Top Model?Pa-lease! How many photos of Tyra, Halle or Beyonce have been taken with makeup that is lighter than their own skin tone?
Is that "White Face"?
Real Black Face is a caricature of Blackness which exaggerates traits that are seen as different.How many Black people are really that black ?
How many have big white lips?
One instance is using skin tone as an artistic expression,
the other is using skin tone to degrade a whole race.
(Not everything involving one's perceived racial traits is "Racist".)
5 comments:
I thought the same thing when i heard there was controversy. A few year's ago though they did the same type of shoot and a white woman won to do an ad campaign for carol's daughter. that was a bit like ok what the hell but this time it's like whatever. I see what they are trying to accomplish.
Look it's just a sign to show you that some folks are not ready to start making the distinction between the two. Try again in 2020 but I guess it ain't happening in 2009.
You have to remember we have a whole other generation still here and when they see anything close to it they might overreact to it. So the ghosts of Christmas past!
What? You watch "America's Top Model" too! And "Housewives of ATL"? Damn, please tell me you don't watch "Tyra" as well?
yeah seriously, your TV viewing is becoming a little "Ugly BLack Jane" here.
I gotta go, that wedding dress show on TLC is coming on, can't miss it.
Oh... I watch whatever is on TV at whichever house I visit.
Old people - The Price Is Right, any judge show, Wheel of Fortune, and the local news are on all day and night.
Women - Victor Newman, Lifetime movies about how some woman gets revenge on some dude or TLC.
Guys - Spike, ESPN or BET.
Kids - Cartoon Network, BET, MTV or The Disney Channel.
I don't really watch much TV - I just get glimpses of what everyone else is watching.
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