Magazine Uses White Model For "African" Queen Photo Because Real Africans Disgusts Them
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Busta Carmichael
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A French magazine has sparked controversy by booking a white model for an 'African Queen' fashion shoot - then heavily bronzing her face and body to make her appear black.
Numéro magazine chose to use blonde-haired, blue-eyed industry darling Ondria Hardin, 16, for the shoot - which features in the March issue - despite then making her up as a black model.
The editorial - shot by photographer Sebastian Kim - also sees Hardin dressed in 'traditional' prints, with make-up done by artist Maud Laceppe.
Critics have now slammed the magazine for using the North Carolina teenager, saying that if they wanted a black model they should have simply hired one.
"This is one of the most insulting things that I have ever seen, it makes me so mad I actually want to cry. I can’t believe magazines think that they can just dip a woman in brown paint, give her clothes from my culture to put on for a couple hours and then have audacity to call her an “African Queen”. Growing up I heard every joke about Africans and saw the negative stereotypes portrayed by the media that tried to make me feel so bad about where I come from. Yet Ive noticed when fashion magazine want to do spreads portraying poise and exoticness they often turn to Africa ( and many other foreign continents/nations) proving time and again that Africa is more than the negative images you see in the media) but this time, to try and take parts of my beautiful culture just to have white women play the role of an “African Queen” proves that beauty cannot be seen in our countries/cultures unless it is represented by White people"
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*shrugs* Cacs gonna Cac.
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As always there was an apology to save face. But people didn't buy it because it made no senseI would like to apologize for any misunderstanding around my recent photos for Numero France. It was never my intention (nor Numero's) to portray a black woman in this story. Our idea and concept for this fashion shoot was based on 60's characters of Talitha Getty, Verushka and Marissa Berenson with middle eastern and Moroccan fashion inspiration. We at no point attempted to portray an African women by painting her skin black. We wanted a tanned and golden skin to be showcased as part of the beauty aesthetic of this shoot.
It saddens me that people would interpret this as a mockery of race. I believe that the very unfortunate title "African Queen" (which I was not aware of prior to publication) did a lot to further people's misconceptions about these images. It was certainly never my intention to mock or offend anyone and I wholeheartedly apologize to anyone who was offended.
Sincerely,
Sebastian Kim
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all i can do is smh ... they never cease to amaze me
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I don't get why anyone that is black would be shocked or outraged by this. This par for the course for them. I guess more people are going to want us to protest and sing more songs about ? like this as if that helps us or makes them see their wrong.
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Here is the girl that posed for the mag
Lmao gtfoh
U mean to tell me you couldn't find ANY black models? -
I had a comment, but i deleted that ? .
This is white supremacy, at its finest, a bunch of confusing ass ? , that just dont make no sense. Like, what the ? ???
@ t/s what the ? is real blacks???
I hope u know that this magazine is in france. all the majority of the black ppl there, are actual africans -
Sad thing is, I can see in the future, "whites" rewriting history with these fake pictures, that could be real to someone who doesn't know
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Alicia Keys
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Busta Carmichael wrote: »Here is the girl that posed for the mag
Lmao gtfoh
U mean to tell me you couldn't find ANY black models?
We all know the apology letter is ? but even if they were going for a Morroccan/ Middle Eastern theme why get some Middle Eastern women instead a pale faced white kid North Carolina. Feed the people more ? and TELL them to like it. -
This disgust me.
I wonder how it would have went down if they titled it Afrikaan Queen -
Busta Carmichael wrote: »Here is the girl that posed for the mag
Lmao gtfoh
U mean to tell me you couldn't find ANY black models?
We all know the apology letter is ? but even if they were going for a Morroccan/ Middle Eastern theme why get some Middle Eastern women instead a pale faced white kid North Carolina. Feed the people more ? and TELL them to like it.
The same reason they have pale ppl in egyptian movies, Living in the desert.
Thats like polars bears living on beaches.
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Busta Carmichael wrote: »Here is the girl that posed for the mag
Lmao gtfoh
U mean to tell me you couldn't find ANY black models?
We all know the apology letter is ? but even if they were going for a Morroccan/ Middle Eastern theme why get some Middle Eastern women instead a pale faced white kid North Carolina. Feed the people more ? and TELL them to like it.
Damn I meant "why not get some Morrocaan/Middle Eastern women". -
Busta Carmichael wrote: »Here is the girl that posed for the mag
Lmao gtfoh
U mean to tell me you couldn't find ANY black models?
We all know the apology letter is ? but even if they were going for a Morroccan/ Middle Eastern theme why get some Middle Eastern women instead a pale faced white kid North Carolina. Feed the people more ? and TELL them to like it.
The same reason they have pale ppl in egyptian movies, Living in the desert.
Thats like polars bears living on beaches.
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White women invented corn rows, and now they're african queens.
50 years from now, Tupac and Micheal Jordan are gonna be looking like white jesus.
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Exodus: Gods and Kings
white guys playing Egyptians. again -
White women invented corn rows, and now they're african queens.
50 years from now, Tupac and Micheal Jordan are gonna be looking like white jesus.
Why wouldn't they be worshipped like him too. Black people read the bible Jesus is described as being bronze in color and having hair like lamb's wool but so many black people got a picture of white jesus in they house, car, phone and work computer. WTF!!!? -
White women invented corn rows, and now they're african queens.
50 years from now, Tupac and Micheal Jordan are gonna be looking like white jesus.
Dont forget they invented twerking also, smh. -
Smh.
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White women invented corn rows, and now they're african queens.
50 years from now, Tupac and Micheal Jordan are gonna be looking like white jesus.
Why wouldn't they be worshipped like him too. Black people read the bible Jesus is described as being bronze in color and having hair like lamb's wool but so many black people got a picture of white jesus in they house, car, phone and work computer. WTF!!!?
BOLDED IS A LIE.. NO WHERE IN THE BIBLE DOES IT SAY HIS HAIR IS LIKE LAMBS WOOL -
White women invented corn rows, and now they're african queens.
50 years from now, Tupac and Micheal Jordan are gonna be looking like white jesus.
Why wouldn't they be worshipped like him too. Black people read the bible Jesus is described as being bronze in color and having hair like lamb's wool but so many black people got a picture of white jesus in they house, car, phone and work computer. WTF!!!?
BOLDED IS A LIE.. NO WHERE IN THE BIBLE DOES IT SAY HIS HAIR IS LIKE LAMBS WOOL
Not lamb's wool but white as wool in Revelations 1 -
White women invented corn rows, and now they're african queens.
50 years from now, Tupac and Micheal Jordan are gonna be looking like white jesus.
Why wouldn't they be worshipped like him too. Black people read the bible Jesus is described as being bronze in color and having hair like lamb's wool but so many black people got a picture of white jesus in they house, car, phone and work computer. WTF!!!?
BOLDED IS A LIE.. NO WHERE IN THE BIBLE DOES IT SAY HIS HAIR IS LIKE LAMBS WOOL
Ok so it say just plain wool ohhh big ? difference there -
Busta Carmichael wrote: »Here is the girl that posed for the mag
Lmao gtfoh
U mean to tell me you couldn't find ANY black models?
Man, it's scary that that "Gollum from the Lord of the Rings" looking thing up there is what their ideal of beauty looks like. Come on. -
I guarantee if the publication was going for a portrayal of an African servant instead of an African queen, they would've used a black person. Whites always want to steal/claim anything they perceive as positive in our cultures and leave (or magnify as an indictment) anything they perceive as negative. It's reflected by Hollywood:
Throughout the history of the world's civilization there's few things that has been as devastatingly effective as one of white supremacy's most potent weapons: indoctrinating the masses with the eurocentric aesthetic standard. -
Yeah, this ? is more than a year old; And the backlash was met with some sideways, "I'm sorry that you're offended, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong or racist, but I'm sorry tho" type apology..
