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Old 02-26-2011, 02:05 AM
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Originally Posted by DrPhil View Post
When these types of disclaimers are offered, the reasons sometimes boil down to race once you get beyond the surface level. Her photo seems random, her makeup wasn't particularly well down, they kept her chest light, a lightskinned Black woman doesn't need to wear darker makeup to depict Africa...that boils down to race and its correlates, as far as I'm concerned. This wouldn't even be a Blackface topic that needed disclaimers if it had nothing to do with race. Basically, what Ch2tf said.
Those reasons are but I was talking more of her makeup wasn't done particularly well, she looked nothing like the man she was supposedly portraying, and her outfit was tacky. Those are all non-racial reasons why the photos were a fail to me and I noticed them way more than the color of her face paint.
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