She considers herself biracial but also acknowledges the fact that being able to pass for white confers one some amount of privilege both in the modeling world and in everyday life.

People who are misguided are never confronted about their views from a position of understanding, they only get shouted down.

When was the last time white people suggested the races should be separate? I’m talking mainstream white people, not Nazi trash.

White People: The races must be separate. If you really want to prove you’re as good as white people, you’ll be able to co-exist separately

It’s a wide and wonderful world of magazines out there, poopy. https://www.buzzfeed.com/patricksmith/the-most-niche-magazines-the-world-has-ever-known?utm_term=.crb2G930g#.nookQO0bN

Yeah, when I saw her other pics I thought, “She’s either English or Welsh.”

Well if anything, at least we can agree she’s gorgeous.

I don’t see why she had to apologize to begin with.

“I would deeply and sincerely like to apologise to every one for this, and black women especially,”

I don’t know how poopy diapers got out of the gray.

Well so according the models.com the model is mixed-race; she’s half-white, half-malaysian. She’s just not black. Not saying that the hair and photoshoot was a good idea, but I could see them tagging the image as “mixed-race,” which is true, and the editor mistaking her as half-black.

I think the point was showing people owning it instead of people dismissing it or excusing it poorly. It was celebratory.

She is half Malaysian, not black.

She’s actually half white, half Malaysian. Also, some casual googling found her discussing intersectional feminism, abortion rights, and the need for ethnic diversity in fashion. She’s only 19 and she’s using her fame as a platform to discuss really important issues. I sort of love her.

she is so cute

Not segregated. Safe. We wouldn’t need our own spaces if we felt welcome and secure in mainstream spaces, or we hadn’t been excluded from them in the past (which is why black fraternities and sororities exist, for example).

That shows how very little you understand about black hair.

Clover’s not going for outrage. Not every Jez article is about being outraged. It’s about the mistake the magazine made and especially the well-handled apology from the model. Seems more like Clover wanted to feature the model’s genuine apology as a good example. It’s supposed to be kind of a happy ending story. …

Wow, I managed to come out of this article not hating anyone. It’s a good day.

Admittedly, I am the whitest of white ladies, but I appreciate that the model made a sincere and thoughtful apology.