Jay Versace called out over post about African looking models

[Black Steph Curry]

Although on a gut level i see what he's saying, dude painted with too broad a brush by using the the word african. If he were to narrow it down to nilotic women, who most likely have the "look" he had in mind, his comment would hold more merit and be better recieved.

It also comes down to more than just facial features. Nilotic people are often taller, skinnier, with longer limbs than other Africans. Good for modeling clothes. In high fashion you're pretty much a living breathing mannequin for the designs that a fashion house puts out. It's why somebody like a Grace Jones can find so much success despite so many people calling her ugly.

It ain't about simply being pretty in that world.

 

[010101]

dark complexion extremely thin & bald headed

that's what they like & i think they like to draw the contrast between what is considered beautiful versus what is considered interesting

then the countless editorials where they play these young mainly south.sudanese models off with styling that doesn't compliment them

that alek wek shyte

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[$cam-U-Well_Jack$on]

Ya’ll know what “extremely African” means.

No, we don’t. Use ya big words to explain since you seem to know.

 

[Kiyoshi-Dono]

was tyra banks' africa's next top model

bytch ain’t been a model in over 30 fukking years
Boy yall just be posting shyt

 

[RamsayBolton]

bytch ain’t been a model in over 30 fukking years
Boy yall just be posting shyt

did you not see my serious post right after my JOKE post?

 

[LeaveMyHairLineAlone]

The thing is, as Black Americans, we generally don't look like that, so it makes us uncomfortable. I hope you can understand and empathize with that.

In fact, if you refuse to understand or acknowledge that this is a real problem, then you're a part of the reason why tensions within the diaspora have exploded. You can't dismiss us and expect us to stay silent or respectful. Keep acting like that, and don’t be surprised when we all reject you completely.

This fool really said darkskin makes him uncomfortable

 

[im_sleep]

The thing is, as Black Americans, we generally don't look like that, so it makes us uncomfortable. I hope you can understand and empathize with that.

In fact, if you refuse to understand or acknowledge that this is a real problem, then you're a part of the reason why tensions within the diaspora have exploded. You can't dismiss us and expect us to stay silent or respectful. Keep acting like that, and don’t be surprised when we all reject you completely.

So tensions in the diaspora have exploded because people tell Black Americans, who are of African descent, that they look like Africans?

 

[im_sleep]

This fool really said darkskin makes him uncomfortable

Threads like these always expose the real.


Man really said “empathize” like being compared to an African was a traumatic event worth going to therapy over.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

was tyra banks' africa's next top model

You really pulling a chick from 30-35 years ago? The last crop of more “African American” looking chicks was like Jordan Dunn, sesilee Lopez, and a few others from the 00’s…and even then there were a lot of mixed chicks. All them euro versions of fashion mags definitely love putting on for the East African (Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, etc) looking models.

I don’t follow the model worlikw like that, but Jordan and Chanel iman (very blasian) seemed like the last “standard” African American models. Winnie is beautiful, but the vitiligo definitely fits the point of needing a “unique” look

 

[TEH]

So tensions in the diaspora have exploded because people tell Black Americans, who are of African descent, that they look like Africans?

Maybe I mis-worded that - thanks for your clarification.

 

[King Sun]

Funny how you dudes think you don't look "African".

 

[King Sun]

This fool really said darkskin makes him uncomfortable

Funny being that most of these dudes on here are from the deep south but hold the most anti black stances ever,

 

[HarlemHottie]

They're being chosen because they're desperate and easily exploited. Bunch of gaslighters in here.

INVESTIGATION

How modelling agencies recruit refugees from one of the world’s biggest camps​

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Modelling agencies are recruiting young people who have fled war-torn African countries and are living in extreme poverty. They are flown to Europe to take part in fashion castings, but some return within days or weeks, often laden with debt​

Wearing a long, gold knitted dress, Achol Malual Jau, strode confidently along the runway at this year’s London Fashion Week.

The South Sudanese model, 23, who had for months practised walking in heels back at her refugee camp, described her experience at the catwalk show in February as “amazing”.

Just five months later, though, Jau was back in the camp in Kenya, the show she believed would cement her modelling career a distant memory.


“I worked hard but came back with no money. A lot of people think I have money because I went to Europe — I say I have nothing,” said Jau from the hut she shares with her family in the Kakuma refugee camp, one of the biggest in the world.

Run by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), it is home to 280,000 people, more than half from South Sudan, the poorest country on the planet, where civil and tribal warfare has killed and displaced millions.


A Sunday Times investigation has established that top fashion labels are using models recruited from this refugee camp. We interviewed dozens of models. Some were already working in Europe, with varying degrees of financial success, while others had returned to Kenya having made nothing.

How modelling agencies recruit refugees from one of the world’s biggest camps

Wearing a long, gold knitted dress, Achol Malual Jau, strode confidently along the runway at this year’s London Fashion Week. The South Sudanese model, 23, who had for months practised walking in heels back at her refugee camp, described her experience at the catwalk show in February as “amazing”. J

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