BLACKHAIR MAGAZINE and the tail of the white model
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We often ask PR companies/salons to submit images for the magazine, specifically stating that models must be Black or mixed race. We can only take their word for it,” the editor of Blackhair magazine said.
Why is it that we as Black and white people always have to question ones ethnicity? I must admit I have and do at times question folks on their ethnicity but it’s not to judge them it is because I am so interested in different ethnicities and backgrounds of people.This weekend Blackhair magazine was criticized for putting a white young model in a kinky haired wig passing her off as a light skinned black woman. Okay PR made a mistake the model Emily Bador wrote an apology on her IG explaining that she noticed that they used an old headshot of her when she was 15 she also explained why people would take offense to this. READ BELOW:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BNDrib-l083/
Now from what I understand Emily Bador noticed her own picture of herself and contacted the PR magazine told them of their “error.” Then went on her IG apologize saying she is white and some of you still question her ethnicity?So with that comes social media debate of what is she?To me she looks like an ambiguous very light skinned black woman but she has told us that she is white and folks still want to tell her who she is. White people want to say she’s white or insist that she’s of European decent but isn’t white people of European decent?Black folks want to say she’s mixed or bi racial one parent is black they other is white. Others say she’s passing as white but she really a light skinned black.
“If I had known it was going to be published, I would never have condoned it. … I was never asked by the photographer/hair salon/anyone if this image could be used for the cover of Blackhair,” she said.
Black folks need to stop just stop if says she’s white then she’s white. How hard is that for you to except? The hypocrisy of it all if Emily Bador said she was a light skinned black woman you’d say she was white.As for you white people SOME of you just get under my dark skin dictating what we people of color are and who we are not. YES WE black folks do it for very different reasons. If you ask me we black people ask what are you? so we can identify with the parson so we can feel safe.
There was a time in the entertainment industry if you was of mixed race you wouldn’t be able to work so the bi racial person who was born with black daddy or mother would pass as white just to survive. This is the same for other perfusions these bi racial people just wanted to fit in some forgot their blackness all together just to belong.
We as a society are so obsessed with color until we don’t see color as problem within our world.