Beyonce's Blackface

[christiangirl]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

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.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by christiangirl

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.... 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.

You consider those nonracial. I do not. I still say they are racial when you get beyond the surface level. Her horribly done face paint and them pretending that she was portraying Fela Kuti are no coincidence in this context. She is paying homage to Africa in horribly done face paint (the color of the face paint isn't so easily separated from how the face paint looks on her) and pretending to portray a man who she looks nothing like. Yeah, I'm pretty sure none of that would've happened if this wasn't about Black/African Diasporic people.

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I just wanted to post this article about Fela Kuti's music.

http://newsone.com/way-black-when/ne...omcamp=NEWSBAR