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Beverly Johnson Asks: Where Are All the Black Models?
The Daily Beast ^ | 9/12/2013

Posted on 09/13/2013 6:20:08 PM PDT by Altura Ct.

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To: Third Person

121 posted on 09/13/2013 10:05:28 PM PDT by packrat35 (Admit it! We are almost ready to be called a police state!)
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To: TChad

“Well, please rethink that.”

Actually, you should. Who controls the language, controls the argument. Who controls the argument, wins.

Redefining words has been a key strategy in the onslaught of the left upon all that is good and decent.


122 posted on 09/13/2013 10:07:48 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: OrangeHoof

“It is, as I say, a product of early conditioning, not any form of intentional racism.”

That won’t keep PC jackals from calling you a racist.


123 posted on 09/13/2013 10:09:47 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: Cicero

That’s a nice picture of Mrs. O. actually. She’s got a nice smile, she should use it rather than that scowl we see so often.


124 posted on 09/13/2013 10:15:42 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: workerbee

You make the correct point, methinks.


125 posted on 09/13/2013 10:16:53 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: All

They’re in rap videos hanging around with hood rats and thugs.


126 posted on 09/13/2013 10:19:10 PM PDT by Rodney Dangerfield (Ask the MSM about Christopher Newsom and Channon Christian. Observe the subsequent blank stares.)
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To: spel_grammer_an_punct_polise

“Who is this dimwit?”

LOL, Beverly Johnson who I now vaguely remember as a super-model but for a while I was thinking it was Betsy Johnson, who is a fashion designer, and white, and perhap a lovely, lefty lady but no fashion model herself.


127 posted on 09/13/2013 10:20:51 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: pluvmantelo

Yes simply gorgeous!


128 posted on 09/13/2013 10:41:37 PM PDT by funfan
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To: dsc
Actually, you should. Who controls the language, controls the argument. Who controls the argument, wins.

Nice platitudes, but we were talking about a specific word: "gay."

To many if not most people, "gay" no longer means what you remember that it meant. It also doesn't mean what the homosexuals wanted it to mean, which was something like "lighthearted, cheerful, and homosexual." "Gay" now has negative connotations galore. Remember the "gay plague"?

To college students where I live, the word now has an additional slang definition that I linked above, that was definitely not approved by homosexuals. I imagine that on some gay online forum, homosexuals are lamenting the corruption of "their" precious word.

If you were looking for a word that proved that no individual or group controlled the language, "gay" would be a good example.

Redefining words has been a key strategy in the onslaught of the left upon all that is good and decent.

I agree with you, but the time to fight those redefinitions is when they first appear, not decades after they have appeared in dictionaries. Fight today's winnable battles today. Fighting yesterday's lost battles is a waste of time and energy.

129 posted on 09/13/2013 11:53:09 PM PDT by TChad
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To: al baby

Look closely at your model. Green eyes, straight hair, caucasian-type hair, lips, and nose. She looks like a white girl with a tan.


130 posted on 09/14/2013 12:24:55 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (this space for rent)
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To: dsc

“They” are all the same? Are you conducting a survey? Stereotype much?


131 posted on 09/14/2013 1:26:19 AM PDT by Misterioso (Was born an atheist 76 years ago and haven't changed my mind.)
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To: Altura Ct.

Blacks in sprinkled conspicuously into every form of media are becoming as embarassing as lawn jockeys.


132 posted on 09/14/2013 2:34:17 AM PDT by AdaGray (Primary Them All)
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To: manc

“Where are all the White people on daytime TV?

I can often flip through maybe a dozen channels I get off the air and not see a single White person. Most of the times tho there are a few. Even those times there will be more Blacks and usually be a good margin.”........

Most of those missing white people are probably working (assuming they still have a job), unlike the blacks who sit at home, watch TV and collect their welfare checks and “free stuff”. TV plays to their audience.


133 posted on 09/14/2013 3:22:49 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: Altura Ct.

Perhaps when we remove the watermelons from their craniums, we might be able to find them. LOL Thanks Jimmy K.


134 posted on 09/14/2013 3:42:22 AM PDT by V K Lee
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To: South40

Some of these are very beautiful indeed, but half are mixed with Latinos or Asian.


135 posted on 09/14/2013 3:57:01 AM PDT by Molon Labbie (Prep. Now. Live Healthy, take your Shooting Iron daily.)
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To: Chickensoup

Pay no attention to some of the posters here. A young engineer that works for me is absolutely drop dead gorgeous. I’ve got a couple of pictures of her when her and her husband came out to the ranch to go deer hunting. I’d never post a pic of her without her permission but all I’ll say is she’s a head turner and a heck of a good shot.


136 posted on 09/14/2013 4:39:07 AM PDT by Dusty Road
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To: Altura Ct.
Well, if you look like Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey with a booty call in the U.S. Standard Rail Gage [4 feet, 8.5 inches], I'd guess that disqualifies them from Project Runway? Another thing is the average black woman isn't thin enough overall for professional modeling — most professional models appear anorexic. Unless a person is blessed with an overactive metabolism, a professional model is always dieting to maintain weight so as to fit into clothes, usually size small to medium. This is a fact of life for any professional model regardless of their race.

Professional modeling is a meat market that demands youth and thin, toned, attractive people. My guess is that Beverly Johnson would not qualify as a professional model, so why bother to inject race into modeling?

137 posted on 09/14/2013 5:04:27 AM PDT by MasterGunner01
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To: raybbr

It is interesting to compare the Williams sisters, Venus and Serena. Venus is one year older than Serena, but has maintained a very trim and attractive figure. Serena seems to be filling out in the wrong places and is starting to look chunky. I find Venus attractive and Serena not so much.

Vanessa Williams [no relation to Venus or Serena] is a gorgeous beauty — an absolute 10 and nearly 20 years older than the sisters. Vanessa could model a burlap sack and make it look attractive. Vanessa radiates a certain warmth and not the “attitude” the Williams sisters do. A lot of black women radiate this “attitude” and that is a major turn off for a professional model.


138 posted on 09/14/2013 5:40:43 AM PDT by MasterGunner01
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To: manc
I’d love to know why most black women are obese, fat butts and then give attitudes but what really gets me is how they think they’re sexy by showing their fat butts, big stomachs and bad attitude.

You have it backwards. It's the bad attitude, the ego, and the sense of entitlement that makes some women think they can become obese and still expect guys to be attracted.

139 posted on 09/14/2013 5:42:56 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: Misterioso

yea it’s really hard to have a conversation and for them to tell you what they like .

ARF


140 posted on 09/14/2013 6:45:15 AM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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