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She's a beauty alright! But pictures will never do her the justice that watching her pour her heart out in an interview with her eyes twinkling and her down-to-earth opinions will. Her youth gives her an advantage.
I agree about limited roles for darker women (of course I don't watch much TV) Hallie Berry was raised in an all-white environment (thank God she wasn't aborted). I hate when people say she acts too white. Tiger Woods has such cultural diversity in his family he objected when people continued to forget he has other ethnicity in his DNA besides black. And the president... would he be as popular as a black man if his white mama stood beside him every step of the campaign(s)?
I find all the emphasis on skin tone differences to be WAY too distracting from the important stuff.
I agree about limited roles for darker women (of course I don't watch much TV) Hallie Berry was raised in an all-white environment (thank God she wasn't aborted). I hate when people say she acts too white. Tiger Woods has such cultural diversity in his family he objected when people continued to forget he has other ethnicity in his DNA besides black. And the president... would he be as popular as a black man if his white mama stood beside him every step of the campaign(s)?
I find all the emphasis on skin tone differences to be WAY too distracting from the important stuff.
Not that there is a who is blacker than who contest. But the people who "represent" black people in the mainstream are the ones with the least black heritage a lot of the time. But it is all part of the legacy of slavery here in the US where anyone who was 1/8 "black" was considered "black."
So the skin tone stuff is really important. It represented leaving the fields during silvery, with a potential opportunity for easier and less oppressive work. A faster path to freedom. Earlier access to education via HBCUs and a shorter path to middle class (or upper middle class) privilege. And now it translates into beauty standards, movie roles, singing careers, modeling contracts, video videos and even shorter sentences if you happen to be tried for a crime. Additionally it wasn't all that long ago when classified ads specified skin tones for jobs as well, particular the white collar ones.
So yeah this stuff is still perpetrated. I've heard "you're pretty for a dark girl" enough times to know it is still an issue. My parents did a pretty good job of shielding me from lots of that so I didn't realize tone was an issue until I was old enough to analyze it and understand the historical context.
It's because People is more targeted to middle aged women so they don't put the actual most beautiful women, as that would be intimidating. I honestly cant imagine them ever choosing like a male fantasy woman like Kate Upton, Emily Ratajkowski or Brooklyn Decker and having them in a swimsuit on a cover. Something like the Maxim Top 100 would be closer to what more guys would think is the most beautiful woman although that list has really gone downhill recently (Miley Cyrus at #1 WTF)
coolzombie: kate upton is stunning. you rarely see a slim waist with D cup chest size naturally (no implants). she was however lauded in sports illustrated as it's a different demographic.
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Her youth gives her an advantage.
