this is why i LOVE tumblr, speaks the realest shit.. stop racism ! every girl can be beautiful despite their skin color
to tell you the truth… I don’t know how I feel about this.
Angie [in all her UN Ambassador, adopt-a-foreign-minority baby, millions of dollars to charity goodness] is still white. Her eyes, still blue. She’ll get the role of Cleopatra [an Egyptian] one day and play a British tomb raider the next. She is an “every woman” in Hollywood. racially ambiguous. Color does matter. Because my daughters are going to be “idealized” for their light complexion and “good” hair. Because dark black girls don’t get to take positive leading roles as often as they should. Because characters in media are written as either a default “white” or purposefully ”ethnic”.
Color matters because the media tells my sisters, mothers, and daughters they are not beautiful. they are not worth it. they need to press or weave their hair. they need to lose 20 pounds. they need to have narrower noses. they need to wear hazel contacts.
I understand what this image is trying to say: we’re all human and we’re all beautiful. But it’s saying it the wrong way. Show me three different women, three different colors, three different beauties. THAT’s reality. but this just says to me “Color doesn’t matter… they’re white on the inside”. Frankly, that’s not what I would want my daughters to see.
This image screams “Race doesn’t matter if you’re white”. I won’t even get into the contextualized visual meaning of the right-hand portion of the image. This epitomizes the idealization of colorblind racism: “If we pretend race doesn’t exist, it will magically cease to be a problem, so that people of color can stop talking about racism and we can all agree to idolize whiteness!”
I never stop being surprised by the racist things that [white] people think are not only okay, but actually ANTI-racist.