WTF? “ANTM” Is The Latest Victim Of The Blackface Infection!
Swine flu isn’t the only virus to be worried about! Apparently, members of the fashion world have been infected with a case of “Blackface-itis” causing them to assume blackface is beautiful and artistic without the slight recognition of its historical context. A string of blackface incidences have been plaguing the pages of Vogue, as well as the CW’s “America’s Next Top Model” cycle 13 season as seen last night.
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On the episode last night, the final six models had a photoshoot in a sugar cane field in Hawaii. Because Hawaii has a large “mixed-race” community (called hapa meaning “half”), the challenge of the photo shoot was for each model to take on two ethnicities even as far as to darken their skin.
Though this is not the first time Tyra has stepped outside of herself and created photo shoots in Blackface, but this one was by far the most extreme. And considering Tyra is a Black woman, there is something very disturbing about turning majority women into “minority-looking.” She even “blackened” the only black competitor up! Was she not “black enough?”
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kaikai7
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!
svnjewels
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.
nattyredds
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
Nightowl358
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.
YOURNAWTEEGIRL
GOOD JOB MAKING SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING….LIKE USUAL
bainerj
Get over it HELLo Beautiful. This isn’t racist or anything else negative. its Art.
Mamacita101
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!
msveevee1
I think they did a beautiful job with the colored girls phase.
butterfly_145
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?
chocolat_bear
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.
brittany_unique
i agree with shamel what tyra is doing is far beyond wtf Vogue did smmfh at that ish…
MsMissyK
I saw the transformations and they are all beautiful. They should stay black. LOL.
Shamel_
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.
2daTopnonStop
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!
CaliFemme23
they all looked the same to me…kinda dark yet pasty…not very convincing Tyra…
johnani
The makeup was absolutely beautiful. They showed races that some people don’t even know exist.
tauyette
They could not find models that are already dark skin…they had to paint people…dang, maybe we have fallen beyond the minority.
Da_J_Rok
“F” these boney broads
QueenFisa
somewhat off this topic….those are some interesting mix of ethnicities