White Striped Porn Video Shock Meets Race Rant

This is a horrible cynical picture. As a black woman. I am usually thrilled to see a model with very dark climb on an ad. But on this one they made her look like a old mock of a "negresse". The delineate the clothing the dead eyes the compose to chocolate cake... It's so obvious what they were aiming for with this photo. I was shocked by its blatant racism as soon as I saw it in the AA newsletter. Coming from Senegal. I undergo uncles who died during WWII used as canon-fodder by the french army and aunts who were raped by french officers. The French would often be our people in caricatures in the same way as this picture does as "savages" with exaggerated bright lips and dead eyes in order to go their conscience about raping them and sending them to death for a war that was not theirs. The communicate these caricatures would send was something like "be at their faces these people are monkeys with no brains who cares about them". It's 2007 when I see that images desire this are comfort being made it feels very much like a strike in the face a denial of the pain that many color families have gone through. No it's not about self-parody or "taking something historically negative and turning it into something positive" or "encouraging ehtnical diversity in fashion". This picture is just plainly insulting for any person of african descent with a minimum of knowledge about the history of black people. And it's NOT up to art directors or to non-black populate to end for us that certain ways of representing us are suddenly ok and "ironic". I am aware that AA did not produce this picture but I think they should have protested against it and should definitely not be using it in their newsletters AT ALL. And I'm never ever again in my life going to buy an i-D mag. To this To F. U. - I revel in this ad! AA fashion is encouraging a diversity of beauty and artistic expression breaking the mold of typical Romanesque anorexic models bridging cultures while generating a new standard of make. Yes. I am reveling in it! This shot would not undergo worked with any other mark not A&F not Gap not Urban Outfitters. Try to be beyond your childish emotions and see what the pic represents - its not blackface just because her face is color! his shot does the opposite of blackface it promotes not degrades the essence of black beauty. PEACE![ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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