Blackface Keeps Rearing it's Racist Head

What the heck was famous American photographer, Steven Klein, thinking? Creativity? I think not... blackface is hardly something new. Was he trying to treat blackface like the word "nigger" and change it to a cool "nigga"; trying to reverse the power of its meaning from something negative to something positive? Well, many are yet to get over their awful racist run-ins full of nigger this and you nigger that and have not taken the use of the word nigga lightly.


Were there NO black employees who saw this and thought that it would possibly be too offensive? It's a direct slap in the face to know that black models are already not the color of choice and have no blacks in your issue, yet instead hire a European woman to play a black role. A black model could have easily filled that slot and been absolutely flawless in her own skin.


You know, maybe there is a perfect explanation as to why this has occurred. Maybe they sent a European model over not knowing what the vision of the photographer was. I'm guessing that the photographer and French Vogue just forgot to mention that the model needed to be black. Or maybe they were doing like what Tyra did on ANTM by turning a white model black and vice versa - switching ethnicities overall. Idk.


What was French Vogue thinking? I mean really. Have you no black American relations or respect? Are you clueless of the purpose of blackface - to degrade and poke at the black race? Is this your way of telling blacks to "get over it already"? Well tell that to the Jews (who get reparations* by the way)... and watch your funding go down the drain, right?


Lara Stone is the model. Lara, you are just as crazy as the rest of them and probably figured it would just add more attention to you. As a foreign, early 20 something, I'm sure you could care less. But hey, maybe you simply didn't know. And what gets me is that they use Lara (a supermodel) as if she is a pinnacle.


Maybe I wouldn't be so offended had there been black supermodels throughout the mag... but that's hardly seen in Vogue anyway. We have our token black girls and the rest of us are too common. But yes, I'd still be offended anyway. But how can you have an issue dedicated to supermodels and not have one "black face" in it? Thus, the sting of insult.


Steven, I don't care how many black friends you have. Vogue, I don't care how many black people you have hired... you both have just insulted them all; every friend, every colleague, and America. You have made your statement. You really don't know black people AT ALL. It's never okay to do blackface. Just look at Whoopi Goldberg and Ted Danson when he did blackface for her roast. Of course she had to defend him; she was in love with him! But as you can see... the two of them are no more. I'm convinced it's probably because she quietly saw the stupidy of misunderstanding and it created a divide - at least I wouldn't be surprised. If Ted couldn't even do blackface in a roast without creating a frenzy, then how the heck do you feel you can do it? Idk, maybe you wanted that sort of attention.