~Controversy~ Over "Racist" French Vogue Editorial... What do YOU think?

[Shelton123]

http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyl...n_blackface_for_french_vogue_photoshoot_.html

This is probably going to be an unpopular opinion, but it is NOT a big deal. I don't like how people say they just "could have gotten a black model" because the editorial was called Lara, so it doesn't make sense to have a model that isn't Lara in an editorial named after her. Not to mention, Lara Stone was specifically called to do it to showcase her versatility, and show how you don't have to be a size 2. Not to mention, this isn't the first one, it's just the first one that caused controversy. Nadja Auermann had an editorial where she was painted in blackface and no one cares? Also, Lara was painted white in some of the editorial too, so it wasn't about race, it was about showcasing versatility, and breaking the wave of size 0-2.

Anyone see where I'm coming from? On the plus side, this is publicity for Lara

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

Well--the difference is that on the game show with the Jackson 5 group that Harry Connick got upset about--they did the old black face which was considered mockery and offensive.



I don't see this model in the same way as that. However, I can see how it would be taken as offensive as in America--blackface is never considered appropriate.

However there was a Ben Stiller movie recently--where one of the actors was a white guy pretending to be black--so they had a white actor painted as Lara is in her shoot.

I guess I don't see why they needed to show her versatility by painting her black---except to possibly incite controversy.


I don't know.

 

[lillygator]

what about the white chicks movie where the Wayans brothers went under cover as white?

 

[GoodFairies]

LOL at the statement about her not being a "typical anorexic model."

LOL further that blackface says anything whatsoever about versatility and size.

Indefensible. Incomprehensible.

 

[FireDancer]

I could care less if black people want to dress in whiteface or white people want to dress in blackface. Neither would register on my radar at all. No one cared when Dave Chappelle did whiteface skits so why would they care about this? After all, having different rules for different people based on their race is pretty despicable regardless of which race it favors.

I don't spend any of my day thinking about race contrary to what the media and people like Rush or Reverend Al want to portray.

 

[Shelton123]

LOL at the statement about her not being a "typical anorexic model."

LOL further that blackface says anything whatsoever about versatility and size.

Indefensible. Incomprehensible.

1. She's a size 4, while most models are a size 2. Not to mention, she's on the larger end of size 4, and she's obviously not as skinny as other famous models, like Tao Okamoto, Iris Strubeggger, or Sasha Pivovarova.

2. It does show her versatility. It shows how she can look great no matter what kind of clothes you put her in, or what kind of makeup you put on her. So yes, it does show her versatility. The blackface didn't say anything about her size, it wasn't intended to, and no one said it did. The editorial was to showcase her versatility AND to break the wave of size 2 models. The blackface accomplished one of the two. They also painted her white in about half of the editorial, as I said.

 

[Holly]

I think the use of traditional blackface is insensitive and anyone who doesn't think so may not have a good grasp of the history of racism in this country.

In this case, however, I don't think that it's overly offensive because the model doesn't have the painting of overly exaggerated caricature that was used to ridicule blacks in the past.


There is no comparison to the use to whiteface, as whites have never faced the racism that blacks have here.

 

[DramaQueen]

in this particular case it doesn't come across as particularly offensive, simply because she's not 'playing black' (like the Jackson 5 aussie group)

but i in no way see how the demonstrates the model's versatility
great, she can pose with body paint on...


i don't understand the artistic concept of the editorial...what was the purpose of using black face? usually when black face is used in art it's for a purpose.

 

[Disney Doll]

French Vogue is clearly too deep for me and frankly, that girl doesn't look that great in blackface. I have no idea how she looks in whiteface.

 

[EMom]

1. She's a size 4, while most models are a size 2. Not to mention, she's on the larger end of size 4, and she's obviously not as skinny as other famous models, like Tao Okamoto, Iris Strubeggger, or Sasha Pivovarova.

What a cow.

 

[agnes!]

I think it's kind of stupid-looking, and the make-up looks patchy and poorly-done. And I wonder if there were any people of color working on that set or on the editorial board of this magazine, this french "vogue" (yeah, I didn't capitalize it on purpose).

agnes!

 

[allison443]

French Vogue is clearly too deep for me

Me too!!

 

[luvmy3]

What a cow.

She must be a real heffer, being on the large size of 4 and all

I don't find anyone playing a character offensive, it doesn't matter if its a black person playing a white person like Eddie Murphy mocking a white person for an SNL skit, or a white man protraying a black man like C. Thomas Howell in the classic film Soul Man

 

[nicolemomof4cuties]

I thought that they were just trying to be artistic. You know like the pics wer they paint they persons face red or hot pink or what not.