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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: Chickensoup; All
Your welcome
101 posted on 09/13/2013 8:29:37 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: Altura Ct.

Why just model when you can lip synch to Retarded African Poetry, dress like a hooker, and give lap dances to your audience while calling yourself a singer?


102 posted on 09/13/2013 8:32:06 PM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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To: ilovesarah2012

>Why aren’t whites complaining about how few white players are in the NFL?<

Not being a NFL fan I can only guess that the audience enjoys watching young black millionaires playing football.


103 posted on 09/13/2013 8:36:12 PM PDT by B4Ranch (AGENDA: Grinding America Down ----- h<<ttp://vimeo.com/63749370)
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To: Altura Ct.

Maybe it would make the author feel a wee bit better to learn that this Scots-Irish cracker hates basketball and I no longer watch football.


104 posted on 09/13/2013 8:40:58 PM PDT by Gator113 (The mighty Bear ate the cowardly rat. Obama must resign.)
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To: dsc

To some extent, I think we are conditioned as youths to decide what is considered beautiful and what isn’t. If most hetero men are confused, there are “men’s magazines” around to clarify beyond any doubt.

The Western-conditioned beauty is one with Anglo features, slender waists, slender noses and long straight hair. Extremely few African-Americans fit that description and the ones who do tend to have more white genetics than dark ones.

I did not write the stylebook but I have definitely been conditioned to see beauties as blonde or possibly brunette with features as described in the previous paragraph.

Therefore, my concept of beauty is largely defined by young Anglo blondes. It is, as I say, a product of early conditioning, not any form of intentional racism. Brown eyes with kinky hair simply don’t match my pre-conditioned notions of “beauty”.


105 posted on 09/13/2013 8:44:29 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Howdy to all you government agents spying on me.)
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To: dsc
Complicity in allowing sodomites to hide behind the euphemism “gay” is, IMO, a mortal sin.

Well, please rethink that. Language is not static. Words can acquire new meanings and lose their old meanings. "Homosexual" has become a very well established meaning of "gay." The new definition was added over 40 years ago. I remember columnist Herb Caen complaining about it in the late 1960s. At this late date, "gay" hides nothing.

I can't remember the last time I heard anyone use the word in its old sense of "lighthearted and merry." Kids now use the word to mean something entirely new, and the new meaning is not at all positive. (See "slang" at the bottom of the list at http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/gay). There is nothing to hide behind in that new definition. In another 40 years the slang definition may be #1 on the list, and "lighthearted and merry" may be considered obsolete.

106 posted on 09/13/2013 8:47:48 PM PDT by TChad
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To: NKP_Vet

I recall the year Halle Berry, Harry Belafonte and Will Smith(?) won recognition at the Academy Awards. Then, later, the cast of “Precious” won... for a soft porn flick.

Then there was the tribute to the Italian and after that to the Mexicans for best movie and directors.

Token tributes aren’t really an honor. They are just a “thanks for playing” trophy. Especially the award to “The Kids Are Alright” for the lesbian theme.

Enough of the awards to ethnic/political groups....back to awards for great films. That is all.


107 posted on 09/13/2013 8:53:08 PM PDT by JouleZ (You are the company you keep.)
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To: al baby

Mike: “Belefonte”? Arch: “No,I said black meathead. Harvey (sic) Belefonte ain’t black.....he’s just a good lookin’ white guy dipped in carmel”. (From the ‘All In The Family’ episode, ‘Sammy’s Visit’, 1972.) ‘Carmel’ or not, that pic is gorgeous Al!!!)


108 posted on 09/13/2013 9:04:29 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a GREAT life!)
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To: workerbee
In Western cultures, black women are rarely stick figures. This is not to call them “fat” — it’s a low percentage of white women who make the designer’s cut, too. But by and large (no pun intended) it will be white girls who have the pubescent boy look that designers want to see on the runway.
And yes, gayness has a lot to do with it.

Most fashion designers tend to make clothes for models who look like pretty boys. Most black women past puberty do NOT have the body of a boy.

109 posted on 09/13/2013 9:07:21 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: bigheadfred

If you missed the Supermodel era, you really missed out. Cindy, Claudia, Christy, Naomi and others. All beautiful, all bright and bodies with curves.


110 posted on 09/13/2013 9:15:00 PM PDT by pluvmantelo (No blood for Obama's Intemperate Linedrawing)
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To: funfan

Paulina Porizkova. A beauty for the ages.


111 posted on 09/13/2013 9:18:45 PM PDT by pluvmantelo (No blood for Obama's Intemperate Linedrawing)
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To: al baby

Thanks for posting. She deserved to show up in this thread. The lovely and conservative Stacey Dash.


112 posted on 09/13/2013 9:26:01 PM PDT by TChad
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To: Chickensoup

Congratulations.


113 posted on 09/13/2013 9:26:59 PM PDT by Gator113 (The mighty Bear ate the cowardly rat. Obama must resign.)
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To: al baby

Whatever the gene combination it sure seemed to work out ok, but I’m not sure what your point is of showing a attractive young lady that is at least 1/2 white probably more as her mother isn’t much darker than she is.


114 posted on 09/13/2013 9:29:59 PM PDT by Durus (You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. Ayn Rand)
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To: TChad
Pretty sure that Meghan Markle not Stacy Dash.
115 posted on 09/13/2013 9:33:49 PM PDT by Durus (You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. Ayn Rand)
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116 posted on 09/13/2013 9:39:21 PM PDT by MaxMax (If you're not pissed off, you're not paying attention)
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To: Durus
Pretty sure that Meghan Markle not Stacy Dash.

No, it's Stacey Dash.

Do an ixquick or Google image search for her name. That is one of her most popular photos.

117 posted on 09/13/2013 9:42:27 PM PDT by TChad
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To: Altura Ct.
Beverly Johnson Asks: Where Are All the Black Models?

White America asks Beverly Johnson: Where Are All the Black Role Models?

118 posted on 09/13/2013 9:47:59 PM PDT by Teacher317 (Obama is failing faster than I can lower my expectations.)
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To: TChad

You’re right, my bad.


119 posted on 09/13/2013 9:49:41 PM PDT by Durus (You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. Ayn Rand)
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To: Chickensoup

Your personal circumstances do not change a thing.


120 posted on 09/13/2013 10:05:16 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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