Comments on: French Vogue puts model in blackface

By: Binocular Harness

Binocular Harness — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:50:14 +0000

I love french vogue for this reason. It’s so edgy and pushed the envelope. American’s are too conservative.

By: Mr.Carrot45

Mr.Carrot45 — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:35:01 +0000

It seems neither adequate nor possible to dissect into discrete ‘properties’ the pattern of an organism which is essentially a unity, a ‘whole’. ,

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By: Mr.Carrot23

Mr.Carrot23 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:59:02 +0000

Anyone failing to satisfy any of these criteria would be deported immediately, without the possibility of appeal. ,

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By: NFLer

NFLer — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:36:25 +0000

I would have liked to seen other colors used too. I just love makeup, the use color and photography and for what they were trying to achieve I think they did.

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By: Aspen

Aspen — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:40:03 +0000

That isn’t blackface. That is makeup intended to make her look African. There is a very, VERY distinct difference. Blackface is horrifyingly racist. Brown makeup to make someone look African or just…brown…is not.

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By: pickelhaube

pickelhaube — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:28:30 +0000

Oh, and I don’t appreciate being attacked because of something that was done YEARS before I was even born. How am I, or any other European-descendant responsible for the actions of others? If your father robbed a house, should YOU be punished? NO! You had nothing to do with it! That is how we feel…and even though we are trying to learn and grow as people, it is never, EVER enough. We can never do enough to make up for the past, so is it any wonder why people don’t even try? Especially when we didn’t even personally have anything to do with any of it?

And way to fall back on the “imperialism” talking point. I knew you would…it just shows a lack of understanding of the subject matter. If the roles were reversed and other cultures had been capable of doing what we did, they would have done so, so why try and take the moral high ground here? It’s HUMAN NATURE, not a race issue, and to turn it into one is disingenuous and just plain wrong. But I guess since so much attention and fawning comes from pulling the race card, people are gonna go with what works, right? Crap like this just ensures that there will never be true racial harmony…but even though the Europeans aren’t to blame for this, we’ll once again be blamed. Like usual.

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By: pickelhaube

pickelhaube — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:21:43 +0000

Mama Besser-

Um, are you serious? EVERYTHING that has ever gone wrong in history is blamed on Europeans nowadays, so please don’t think that any of us think we aren’t capitalist colonialist imperialist pigs, because we are told that each and every day of our lives. I am not saying that Europeans have done nothing wrong, but the issue we have is with being blamed for everything that has ever gone wrong on this planet. Maybe if some other cultures took even 1% of some personal responsibility for their issues, more people of European descent would be more willing to take some blame, but by attacking us and blaming us for everything bad, while never giving us any credit for the massive GOOD we’ve done makes people a little bit defensive and angry.

A good example is Zimbabwe. They’ve been out from colonial rule for a good long while, yet they are way worse off now than they ever were under colonialism. Yet now that they are masters of their own destiny, they’re failing horribly, but who do they blame? EUROPEANS! S. Africa is another example as well. It was a First World country just over 25 years ago, and is now basically a Third World country, and they refuse to take any of that responsibility, instead they blame Europe and colonialism. The more people blame past actions for their current situations, the longer they’ll remain in those situations. These are just the facts, whether or not they fit in with the prevailing “hate and blame Europe” mindset, and you are doing yourself a disservice by not doing some research on the subject.

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By: AlisonLovesSean

AlisonLovesSean — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:40:46 +0000

Why not just hire a black model? They need money too.

How much time (money) and labor (money) and makeup (money) did it cost to turn the white model (money) into a “black” model?

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By: amber

amber — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:35:16 +0000

I’m certain the shoot was not about race at all! The images are striking and make you aware of the process of making up the model for the shoot. If this was an editorial on supermodels, perhaps the methods were there to point out the fact that supermodels have to completely transform themselves at the whim of everyone else. That they are a glorified coathanger on which to hang WHATAVER the boss wants.

There is not one single thing offensive about this spread, except perhaps towards models in general.

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By: Praise St. Angie!

Praise St. Angie! — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:59:38 +0000

the more I look at her, the more I think they wanted to make her look like she was made of milk chocolate.

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