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By: kaikai7

kaikai7 — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:09:04 +0000

Oh Lawd we sure don’t want to take a stroll back to the era of black face , which was highly exploitive of our people!I am for artistic freedom but d*amn why take it there Tyra? She is such a dimwit sometimes!

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By: svnjewels

svnjewels — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:07:51 +0000

Come on! Black folks always crying foul over sillyness. I didn’t see white folks crying when the Wayans did White Chicks. But let that be in reverse the sky starts to fall. This isn’t black face as we all know it to be. They aren’t portraying a race of people in a negative stereotype.

By: nattyredds

nattyredds — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:46:20 +0000

THIS IS WHY I DO NOT WATCH TYRA BANKS

OR SUPPORT ANY OF HER SHOWS…

I REALLY DONT GIVE 2 FUKKS IF ITS ART OR WAS DONE TASTEFULLY

THE POINT IS TYRA IS A BLACK WOMAN AND SHE LET SOMETHING THATS WAS MEANT AS A RACIST GESTURE(BLACKFACE) NO MATTER HOW YOU PUT IT…

BLACKFACE NEVER MEANT ANYTHING TO BE GOOD
BLACKFACE OR N.I.G.G.E.R

SOME PEOPLE THINK THAT THAT WORD NIG WAS COOL CUZ ONLY “WE” BLACK PEOPLE WERE USING THE TERM BUT SINCE ITS INCEPTION THE WORD “IS” AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN MEANT AS DEROGATORY

SO I CAN NEVER SUPPORT TYRA OR ANY OF HER SHOWS CUZ IN MY OPINION SHE HAS SOLD OUT HER BLACK RACE ALONG TIME AGO

By: Nightowl358

Nightowl358 — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:03:34 +0000

I have no issue with it. I can see if these women were being caricatures of black women and other ethnic minorities and mocking them, but that wasn’t the case, it was respectably done(yes, I’m a man who watches the show). Sorry, but it takes a bit more than a non-white putting on dark makeup to make it an outrage. This is much ado about nothing.

Save your outrage for something that makes sense.

By: YOURNAWTEEGIRL

YOURNAWTEEGIRL — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:43:29 +0000

GOOD JOB MAKING SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING….LIKE USUAL

By: bainerj

bainerj — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:56:55 +0000

Get over it HELLo Beautiful. This isn’t racist or anything else negative. its Art.

By: Mamacita101

Mamacita101 — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:30:36 +0000

Damn it’s not like this is the first time that the show has done this. S**t nowadays everything is considered blackface, boy I hate to see what the press and “hello beautiful” gonna say about the little kids on Halloween!

By: msveevee1

msveevee1 — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:21:35 +0000

I think they did a beautiful job with the colored girls phase.

By: butterfly_145

butterfly_145 — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:16:38 +0000

how is antm the latest victim to blackface,didn’t they do a episode like this in a past season where they model as another race?

By: chocolat_bear

chocolat_bear — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:03:12 +0000

you should see the episode in question..they were rep. different races…and they were eloquently dressed and not in a negative light. there was no big lips and neg gestures…so i am asking all my black bro n sistahs to watch the episode and decide for yourself. i wasnt offended in any way..and i would like to think that tyra would sell out for fashion.

By: brittany_unique

brittany_unique — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:08:00 +0000

i agree with shamel what tyra is doing is far beyond wtf Vogue did smmfh at that ish…

By: MsMissyK

MsMissyK — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:06:03 +0000

I saw the transformations and they are all beautiful. They should stay black. LOL.

By: Shamel_

Shamel_ — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:51:33 +0000

I don’t find this offensive because I understand the premise behind what Tyra was trying to do. However, that s#!t in Vogue was OUTRIGHT OFFENSIVE! Those were white chicks in “black face” which is not only offensive but unnecessary when there is plenty of beautiful black models that could have done the job…and BETTER! I think this was a tribute to the diverse brand of cultures in Hawaii and nothing more, nothing less.

By: 2daTopnonStop

2daTopnonStop — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:03:03 +0000

Get the f*ck otta here BP/HB~ Quit trying to stir a pot of sh*t that no one wants to eat~

Did you hear the background of what the shoot represented? How the Island of Hawaii is a blend of cultures and they wanted to represent that?

Not one of these girls were jooking and jivving around acting a nut~ This wasn’t some type of slapstick offensive act…it was art…it was fashion…it was tastefully and respectfully done…Obivously they wanted to SHOW how GORGEOUS darker skinned races are, since the majority of them were made to be women of darker ethinic roots~ Get a better hobby!

By: CaliFemme23

CaliFemme23 — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:50:25 +0000

they all looked the same to me…kinda dark yet pasty…not very convincing Tyra…

By: johnani

johnani — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:21:47 +0000

The makeup was absolutely beautiful. They showed races that some people don’t even know exist.

By: tauyette

tauyette — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:15:46 +0000

They could not find models that are already dark skin…they had to paint people…dang, maybe we have fallen beyond the minority.

By: Da_J_Rok

Da_J_Rok — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:55:57 +0000

“F” these boney broads

By: QueenFisa

QueenFisa — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:38:21 +0000

somewhat off this topic….those are some interesting mix of ethnicities