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I’m so sick of dark skinned black girls never being appreciated!

I’m so sick of dark skinned black girls never being appreciated!

LOL that’s so ridiculous it made me laugh.

Womp womp, Philippines.. Hahaha!! Love my culture but they just pulled stupid with this cover.

@fromprivatetopublic@xanga - I get you and I think people like Grace Jones was beautiful, but this article was in regards to a Philippine magazine, not the U.S… 

Honestly it is. Just because you don’t mean it does not make it not-racist. A lot of us say shit in day to day life that we don’t really give much thought and we say it and do it because if others are and they’re not getting shit for it then it must not be wrong. Which is totally incorrect. And she may be Filipino but her skin color is much lighter and honestly the closer you are to light skinned the more you can be considered privileged regardless of what culture you are. Most people are not educated enough in those matters to tell the difference. All they see is color. She may not have meant for it to be seen that way but it is what it is and they made the right choice in getting rid of it.

I see what she’s saying, but she had to know it looked bad. The moment you decide to get a black girl to be your “shadow” come on lol.  

I mean, I get the gist of what they were trying to do…”stepping out of the shadows” and then visually contrasting her compared to darker colors.  Buuuuuut….not a very smart way to go about it.  Nice.  It’s good that they pulled it instead of being stubborn asses and refusing to admit an oversight.

At least they admitted to it and pulled it.

I wouldn’t have viewed this as racist… 

I’m a Filipina and I find this cover mag objectionable. I mean, what the hell was Bela Padilla thinking? Coming out of the shadows with three black models in the background? I mean, really now. In the Philippines as well as pretty much all of Asia, it’s quite common to use very light-skinned/white models. I really loathe this whiter the better concept. It’s so sad. Another thing. Why is Bela Padilla taking the flack? Isn’t it the editor’s responsibility in the first place to give the go ahead whether or not a cover/article gets published?

@heart_leigh@xanga - I think she’s taking the flack because she’s who everyone sees. It’s easier to blame people who we see than someone behind the lens, you know what I mean? And all controversy aside, I’m not a fan of her. She’s not a very good actress and she reminds me too much of Bea Alonzo. lol.. But I’m not giving her the flack since it is the editor’s fault.

i get where they were going, but really?  .___.”  

@pick_my_friggin_nose@xanga - I agree. She’s not a good actress at all. She’s only in Philippine entertainment because you know Mestizas like her are adored and placed on a pedestal. Btw, did you hear about her interview recently with the BBC news regarding her controversial cover especially her commentary regading the black models? Some of the models were actually Filipinas painted black. Wth? Blackface? Fast forward to 1:31.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-17196449

The cover pic looks like a Hostess Ding Dong cupcake.

yes, we would never see white models idolizing a black model in a magazine cover like this one

Political correctness ruining everything once again.

There’s definitely more than three black models…

lol!

wow that sentence literally made me laugh out loud!!!!! SERIOUSLY??? ouch. ouchouchouch. I mean that screams conflict/ scandal. What the hell. Perhaps that was secretly their marketing strategy, who knows. You can’t use black women as the “shadows” in a picture and not think about it as being offensive to some people. 

lol my country >_>

I get it, but it seemed pretty obvious they’d get such a reaction.

It was way too literal. 

@heart_leigh@xanga - Those models DID look like they were painted “black”. There’s no way to really truly come out of this controversy just like any other ones similar to this situation.

I thought the cover was going for artistic. Sadly, the world is far too PC.

I see three gorgeous women in bikinis, and the one in the middle happens to be lighter skinned. >_>

Retarded. Everyone is so damn sensitive these days.

There’s a huge disparity that’s often ignored between light skin and dark skin women in the Black community. Because these women were dark skin and the cover’s headline mentioned the word, “shadow,” I can see why it would evoke such an uproar. If these women were of lighter complexions, it wouldn’t arouse such commotion, but either way I can definitely see why this cover would get a lot of criticism.

As a dark skin Black woman, I don’t think people are being sensitive at all. I’m glad that people are looking into it rather than ignoring what’s happening here at all. Race is such taboo these days and I’m just glad people are noticing these things.

Does anyone realize that the black girls are IN the photo? Obviously they had no problem with the shoot, so why does everyone else? It is ridiculous for people to say that this photo is controversial, because the intentions of the shoot were not controversial. People force controversy into things for attention half the time, and it’s getting old. People should appreciate the photo as it is and as it was meant – a beautiful picture of beautiful women. Simple as that. People are too complicated and too sensitive!

@lost_in_this_moment747@xanga - It’s easy for people to say that when they are not the shadow being stepped away from. Not to mention, many of those women were painted black. Why couldn’t she literally step out from shadows. Why did people have to be involved? I can’t even think of an example for the reverse that would make any sense. Too often the word black is used to stand for things that are dark, opressive, and ominious. For white or lighter people, there’s purity, cleanliness, peace and so forth and so on. We are simply tired of being compared to things that are wrong. I am 25 and I am just learning to love my skin. My entire life the only beautiful women I had to look up to were lighter skinned than me. That’s not to say that there aren’t darker skinned versions of beauty out there, they just aren’t given the same kind of attention as the lighter ones. I spent most of my childhood explaining my skin tone to people as being the remnants of a really bad sunburn. I wanted to be what many black people refer to as “yellow”. Like I said, it’s easy for you to say something about a subject until you really experience it. In the world lighter is always more beautiful than darker, but there is actually no worse place for it than in the black community. Our people have spent centuries being told that we were inferior to lighter races, some of us actually began to believe it. It has taken us this long to come to terms with it and we are trying to heal. It’s really hard to do when we have stuff like that happening constantly.

I’ve never understood the whole people are sensitive/pc has gone too far bullshit. Is it wrong to call something for what it really is? Racist. There I said it. Maybe this magazine cover isn’t racist to some of you, but to a person of color, there is a subtle message being conveyed here whether it’s intentional or not. 

As a black woman, I can honestly say that I can see how this could be offensive but I can also see how people would think that it wasn’t offensive. When things are about art, they tend to bend and break social mores. I do hope, though, that no dark-skinned black women internalized the possible racist meaning of the photo. Know that you are beautiful.

I think it could have been done more tastefully… instead of using brown skinned people around her as the “stepping out of the shadows” metaphor, they could have easily used something else… lol  I’m a brown skinned woman and I’m just happy they will work on a different piece.

How is this white supremacist if she is Asian? =\

I’m glad people are letting the magazine know how completely unacceptable this is. How could they even conceive such an idea without understanding how offensive it would be to black people?

Perhaps they were attempting to create controversy?

@heart_leigh@xanga - It definitely comes across as racist. It’s not a matter of being ‘too sensitive’. It’s so obvious how racist that cover is, I can not believe the magazine didn’t figure it out before they published it. 

This is a fine example of how Filipinos, indeed Asians in general, put Whites on a pedestal.

This is why there are so many more White men/Asian women couples, and not the other way around.

@misslei11@xanga - It’s not that the woman is Asian, btw, she’s half-Asian and half-white, it’s the thinking behind the white supremacist ideology. There is a blatant indoctrination that people with light/white skin are deemed more intelligent, more beautiful, and more desirable than people with darker skins. In the Philippines and the rest of Asia, heck, everywhere around the world, light/white skin offers more advantages than dark skin. Sad, but true.

That’s why if you put a White man in Manilla, he gets treated like royalty by the Filipinos, especially the Filipino females, which is why, so many White men go to the Philipines, huge sex industry there.

On the other hand, you put a Filipino in New York City, the guy would be lucky if he doesn’t get looked down upon as if he were a lower species.

I like the artistic idea behind the shot. Not a big fan of the tittle though.

 It would be cool if they did a black woman coming out of a crowd of white people chicks. Like a yin yang kind of thing and they might get more sells because one issues will complete the other.

@heart_leigh@xanga - Yep..very true.

For those that don’t see this photo cover and title as being insensitive or controversial…then let’s say there is a fictional magazine for example that reads this:

‘Fighting and avoiding the Whitewash’  -  Cover title of a periodical about Law and Justice System.

or

‘Floating with ease and success in a White Squall’  -  Cover title of a magazine about business and investing.

or

‘From Blacklist to the top of the Whitelist’  -  Cover title of apublication about the entertainment industry.

No problem right?  Right.

But now add a photo of dark skinned person in the middle of the page representing the subject in the action of the title and surround him/her with very fair skinned (or white) individuals who represent the negatively associated object, in this case “whitewash, white squall or whitelist which could be interpreted as only the fair skinned are superior in entertainment…well, if you are a fair skinned/white person how would you take it?  

I think some fair skinned/Caucasian individuals the may be offended by seeing these magazines as being white is associated with [1st magazine] crime, scandal, dishonesty, [2nd magazine] greed, domination, power, cut-throat, [3rd magazine] jealousy, egotism, vanity, conceit, a better than other more skilled than others attitude.  *shrugs* 

If you understand this and feel this way then you’ll understand where dark skinned/black people are coming from.

@heart_leigh@xanga - Racism sucks. =\

@flawsnall@xanga - exactly!! Also the fact that all of the darker women are covered with words and titles and there are none over the center woman

I think it’s hot. There’s nothing hotter than an interracial lesbian threesome.

@heathursaurus@xanga - Hahahaha I had to go back up and look at the cover again. Yes, definitely more than three black women.