White Women Have Always Stolen Black Beauty

The Daily Beast ^ | June 13, 2015 | Keli Goff

[2ndDivisionVet]

White people have been reaping the rewards of appropriating black culture for years. At least Rachel Dolezal was doing it to educate others.

There’s been a lot of outrage directed at Rachel Dolezal, the civil rights activist recently outed for “passing” as a black woman. But some of us are scratching our heads trying to figure out why Dolezal’s particular case has evoked such anger when she’s simply doing what has been standard in American culture for years: hijacking aspects of black culture, and black beauty in particular, reaping the rewards while black women with the same attributes rarely do.

According to reports, and accompanying photos, as part of her alleged fraud, Dolezal tanned her skin and braided her hair. So in other words she’s like a zillion white female celebrities. Jennifer Aniston recently noted in an interview that she needed a tanning “intervention” to let go of her obsession with darkening herself. She is far from alone in Hollywood where spray tans have become as ubiquitous on red carpets as spanx....

[2ndDivisionVet]

That’s a secret? Not at my local Wal-Mart it isn’t!

[BenLurkin]

Just read some of the comments on this thread.

[Iron Munro]

Black female beauty..... like Michelle Obama.
Bwhahahahhahahhahahahah!

[Olog-hai]

OK; why does the author’s hair look like this . . . ?

[gaijin]

exactly correct.

[ansel12]

So tanning isn’t about looking outdoorsy and healthy, it is our sick attempt to try to appear to be negro.

I did not know that.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Theresa Heinz-Kerry is African.

[catnipman]

I thought Black Beauty was a horse.

[dp0622]

Interesting.

[Red in Blue PA]

[Toddsterpatriot]

I Like Big Butts

[Red in Blue PA]

I thought Black Beauty was a horse.

Michelle Obama is.

[God luvs America]

LOL!!!

[BenLurkin]

[central_va]

Corn rows are ugly.

[onedoug]

Arthel Neville, Harris Faulkner/Fox and Vivian Brown/The Weather Channel....

Ah-homina-homina....”

[EvilCapitalist]

Worse than that. Rachel Jeantel. (shudder)

[Olog-hai]

The color photos are even more blatant.

[doorgunner69]

"Black beauty?" Is this a satire piece?

Unfortunately, even to many black men, most black women are typically not in the least attractive, not to say downright fugly.

[Hugin]

LOL. After they’ve been saying for decades that black women are victimized by white standards of beauty. I guess that means all those white women are victims now.