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Black U.K. beauty magazine accidentally put a white model on its cover. Apologies followed.
Washington Post ^
| November 23, 2016
| Travis M. Andrews
Posted on 11/23/2016 6:36:20 AM PST by grundle
Emily Bador is a white woman. She is not, therefore, a black woman. Normally, that wouldnt be news worth reporting, mostly because it isnt news.
But her race came into play recently due to the new cover of Blackhair magazine, a British glossy that bills itself as an international bi-monthly magazine for the style conscious black woman. Packed with 100s of hair inspirations, fashion, lifestyle and celebrity interviews, we are one of the leading publications for women of colour in Europe.
The magazine, which generally if not always features black or mixed-race models, used her photograph for the cover of its December/January issue. The editors have admitted they didnt know she was white.
Her apology:
"I would deeply and sincerely like to apologise to every one for this, and black women especially. I would like to clarify, I believe this shoot is from when I was around 15 and didn't understand cultural appropriation or the impact it has on POC. I was uneducated, which obviously is no excuse, ignorant and immature. Growing up in a very very white city, I had no idea the struggles black women face and how often they were persecuted for their hair. I didn't understand how black women are constantly told their natural hair is inappropriate/unprofessional for the work place, or how young girls are told they can't go to school with natural hair..."
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: beauty; blackhair; blackseparatists; emilybador; fakenews; fashion; handwringers; racists
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To: Alberta's Child
“LOL. That would have been like making a movie about Martin Luther King Jr. and casting Chris Farley in the lead role.”
Ok, am I the only person here who would have watched that?
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posted on
11/23/2016 6:53:05 AM PST
by
Ueriah
To: TexasFreeper2009
She looks at least as black as Rachel Dolizel.
To: grundle
What’s that you say? They put Black Beauty on the cover? I read the book as a kid.
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posted on
11/23/2016 6:55:31 AM PST
by
Enterprise
("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
To: Ueriah
No. I would have been all over that one. LOL.
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posted on
11/23/2016 6:55:34 AM PST
by
Alberta's Child
("Yo, bartender -- Jobu needs a refill!")
To: grundle
Struggles of black women and their hair? What, like in sanding a dowel?
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posted on
11/23/2016 6:57:42 AM PST
by
King Moonracer
(Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
To: grundle
The model had nothing to apologize over.
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posted on
11/23/2016 6:58:38 AM PST
by
Bogey78O
(We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
To: King Moonracer
so....we're just a couple of white people?
To: Alberta's Child
LOL. That would have been like making a movie about Martin Luther King Jr. and casting Chris Farley in the lead role.My choice would have been Sam Kinison, who was a preacher in an earlier career.
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posted on
11/23/2016 7:01:31 AM PST
by
Night Hides Not
(Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
To: grundle
Never apologize. Never explain.
Tell the butthurt leftists and race baiters to FOAD.
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posted on
11/23/2016 7:02:14 AM PST
by
NorthMountain
(My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.)
To: Carl Vehse
Or does diversity only work one way?
Yep, you got it. Fewer whites = More diverse.
The original meaning of the word is lost.
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posted on
11/23/2016 7:02:55 AM PST
by
BitWielder1
(I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
To: grundle
cultural appropriation?..................
To: rlmorel
At 15 she’s a girl, not a woman.
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posted on
11/23/2016 7:10:56 AM PST
by
nuconvert
( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
To: grundle
Here she is without the afro:
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posted on
11/23/2016 7:11:34 AM PST
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: grundle
I wonder if a black model appeared on the cover of a white only magazine if she would apologize? Of course not because it would not happen since it is a federal crime (in this nation) to have a “white only” anything. /s
To: grundle
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posted on
11/23/2016 7:19:39 AM PST
by
Iron Munro
(If Illegals voted Rebublican 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
To: grundle
Did they think the Ring in her nose meant something ?
To: grundle
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posted on
11/23/2016 7:33:21 AM PST
by
Iron Munro
(If Illegals voted Rebublican 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
To: Yo-Yo
Looks like a young Shell Duvall:
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posted on
11/23/2016 7:33:50 AM PST
by
PLMerite
(Lord, let me die fighting lions. Amen.)
To: rlmorel
And that is not an attractive woman, at least not as portrayed there.It's worse than you know...
To: grundle
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posted on
11/23/2016 7:39:41 AM PST
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through you're anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
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