Well, this is interesting. A recent study conducted by the Pew Research Center, which explored Americans’ feelings about the country’s changing demographic, found that most Americans don’t even consider the President of the United States a black man. Challenging society’s long-standing “one drop rule,” the study’s findings showed that 52 percent of Americans consider Obama mixed-race. Read […]
Why do we keep having to travel down this road? In the past year alone, we’ve reported on more black face editorials than there are days in the week, and of course with each offense comes an apology, but offensive editorials just keep rolling in. The latest contender, once again, appears in the March 2014 […]
This Monday, Miroslava Duma’s new online magazine Buro 247 published an article on Russian socialite Dasha Zhukova. The seemingly innocent article about her life, fashion and career was paired with an image of the Editor-in-Chief of Garage Magazine comfortably perched on an extremely life-like black mannequin, who is naked save for a pair of leather-look black panties, a dominatrix-style belt, elbow-length gloves and […]
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was a day made to reflect on the dream of equality, but sometimes the message slips through the cracks. The image of a white woman comfortably perched on a “black woman bondage chair” was a prime example of that. Yesterday, Miroslava Duma’s new online magazine Buro 247 published an article on Russian socialite […]
Much like blackface, there are certain things in the realm of culture and history that we know we should stray away from appropriating into modern-day work, but sometimes the fashion industry just doesn’t give a hoot. Namely, Karl Lagerfeld, who debuted a show titled ‘Cowboys and Indians’ in Texas last week. The final two looks of […]
The cycle of stupidity continues. Wear blackface, think it’s funny, get media backlash, say sorry, repeat. Because of the aforementioned, we’ve admittedly turned a blind eye to the foolishness that played out when ELLE France Beauty Editor Jeanne Deroo dressed in blackface earlier this week. But now, in the order these things typically follow, she has […]
If we learned anything this Halloween season, it’s that people aren’t afraid to be offensive. And if the multiple blackface costumes we saw weren’t indication enough, a new Huff Post poll is revealing that more than four in 10 Americans believe it’s acceptable to wear the makeup on Halloween. According to the new poll, 43 […]
Halloween residuals are still rolling in and it’s making us wish we could cancel the ghoulish holiday next year. More offensive costumes have hit the ‘net (like the Boston bombing victim or missing teen Avonte Oquendo) but here’s one that will surely piss you off. Will Vendramini, seen above in what some say is “blackface,” […]
Let’s face it. Halloween might be over, but the offensive costumes and themes that outraged us all are year round. Like that “Hood Ratchet World Star Hip-Hop” party that a University of Michigan fraternity planned for later this month. The racially insensitive invitation of a black man holding wads of cash was even complete with […]
Republicans in Chisago County, Minn. tried to jump on the meme bandwagon by posting what they thought was a funny image on their Facebook page. And while common sense would tell you a meme comparing slavery to abortion isn’t going to get you very many likes, the GOP culprit responsible just didn’t get it. “Pro Choice. […]
This is getting exhausting. Halloween is here and despite the heightened use of blackface and the tremendous response telling offenders not to do it, it’s still totally happening. This time, two San Diego high school football coaches wore blackface for their Cool Runnings costumes at a game last weekend. Not surprisingly, they’ve come under fire […]
We’ve seen this formula before. Dress in blackface, get ridiculed, and eventually issue a sorry-I’m-not-sorry type of apology. The latest culprits were the organizers behind a “Disco-Africa” themed party attended by a group of Italian fashion figures like Anna Dello Russo, Stefano Gabbana, and Alessandro Dell’Acqua, who attended the party dressed in their rendition of “Africa.” The […]
