The American “tradition” of blackface/minstrelsy has been exported around the world for almost 200 years.
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“Dressed up”? “Wearing”? This looks like a Photoshop job. I don’t think she did shit besides pose for the original photo. The 2 is generous to the extreme.
Copied is a bit generous - she photoshopped her face into the original pictures and looks like she fixed her lips on occasion.
She's essentially creating the conditions (the gradual disappearance of said tribe through erasure, that she claims to be fighting against) by centering her own non-African body. Europeans are something else.
Wait...
It bums the fuck out of me that you know there are people who would feel uncomfortable by some of the original images but are all too enthusiastic about the appropriations.
They are! WHY NOT JUST POST THOSE. The women in the original portraits are all absolutely gorgeous.
These stunning portraits show how beauty varies across the globe and prove that all of us are beautiful in a different way. They’re celebrating stunning tribal beauties at the brink of extinction.
Good lord this is headache-inducing. The original portraits are so gorgeous too...
What she did was racist, stupid, racist, completely lacking in self-awareness and good sense. And racist.
the kid is sitting at a playground, the officers roll up on top of him, and he has the tragic failure of judgement to move in Literally Any Way.
watch the video.
it’s what they do.
then they wrote a report that was, top-to-bottom, lies about what they did.
Humans are complex beasts. We can be impressed with one action or aspect of their character while being disappointed with a different one.
I’ve started a comment on this piece three times, and each time I get lost in the horror of the crime itself. I can’t find the words. So if this comes out poorly, I do apologize. Like a lot of people, I wish LeBron would take a position of leadership on this issue, but it’s certainly not his responsibility to do so. I…
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I love how you leave out major points of the story. The cops thought it was a real gun because people called the police and said a boy is playing with a gun and threatening people. The story is tragic enough, you dont need to leave out information for sympathy. Most people know the cops did not act appropriately.