It ain't just L'Oreal
Aug. 14th, 2008 01:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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Funny what you'll get used to without noticing.
See, not even Michelle Obama is beautiful enough. Mainstream mags have got to lighten up her skin so that she looks like a fucking circus clown. Cause no matter how beautiful that woman's skin is? Its too dark. Too black. Lighter and brighter, that's the ticket! Can't have no dark-skin-toned Black woman on our magazines now, no matter that she is an intelligent, accomplished woman who just might be the next First Lady of the US of A. And of course if Michelle Obama can't cut it, what in the world makes us think that Serena Williams will cut it? One of tennis' biggest stars? Check, but still too dark to put in our magazines. Got to lighten her up. And as for Jennifer Hudson? Well she gets it both ways. She is too dark and wayyyy to fat to be photographed properly on her cd. I mean people! Those uppity people may get ideas, here. They might actually think that white skin isn't the ideal. That black people of all shades are actually be beautiful That fat people as beautiful. Can't have that, now can we?
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Funny what you'll get used to without noticing.
See, not even Michelle Obama is beautiful enough. Mainstream mags have got to lighten up her skin so that she looks like a fucking circus clown. Cause no matter how beautiful that woman's skin is? Its too dark. Too black. Lighter and brighter, that's the ticket! Can't have no dark-skin-toned Black woman on our magazines now, no matter that she is an intelligent, accomplished woman who just might be the next First Lady of the US of A. And of course if Michelle Obama can't cut it, what in the world makes us think that Serena Williams will cut it? One of tennis' biggest stars? Check, but still too dark to put in our magazines. Got to lighten her up. And as for Jennifer Hudson? Well she gets it both ways. She is too dark and wayyyy to fat to be photographed properly on her cd. I mean people! Those uppity people may get ideas, here. They might actually think that white skin isn't the ideal. That black people of all shades are actually be beautiful That fat people as beautiful. Can't have that, now can we?
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Date: 2008-08-15 03:37 am (UTC)I was so mesmerized by Serena's shots I totally missed that she'd been lightened, thought the shots were hot to def.
if I hit the islands for 2 months and come back black as tar (and I've done it in the past), they'd lighten my ass up so quick...
If you ain't bright, you ain't white, right?
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Date: 2008-08-15 03:56 am (UTC)Where I come from there was crap about cream in your coffee and such foolishness...