I want to challenge you this week to look through a fashion magazine and ask yourself how many African American men or women you see. As I was thinking about this over the past couple of months it accured to me that every model who is not white has some kind of european features (lighter skin, high cheek bones, light eyes). Why is it that we market these things as if they are "the standard" of beauty?
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December 19, 2007
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Well because we caucasian women, have supported that image by buying those magazines and fretting about our bodies, hair color and skin tone when it doesn't look like the white, airbrushed, eating disorder plagued model on the cover and in the pages. Fashion is supported by those of us who pay its salary. No wonder women of African or Carribbean descent have created their own magazines. I don't blame them.
Imagine that if we feel inferior then how must these women feel?
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