Posted on 04/25/2015 9:06:38 AM PDT by rightistight
Writing in USA Today, Alexandra Samuels, USA Today's columnist for their "voices from campus" section, believes that people trying to have big lips are racist.
Specifically, Ms. Samuels is referencing the "#KylieJenner Challenge," in which teenagers suck on shot glasses so that their lips are "plump and pouty" like Kylie Jenner's, who is on the reality TV show "Keeping Up With The Kardashians."
While Ms. Samuels warns teens that the practice is dangerous, as it has led to bruises and some disfiguration, the main point of Ms. Samuels's piece is that trying to create big lips is racist.
The article, titled "The #KylieJennerChallenge is dangerous and racist," tries to explain to readers how big lips are racist.
"These teenagers participating in the challenge aren’t aware of the history associated with black people and big lips," Ms. Samuels writes. "White Americans in the nineteenth century used blackface, along with other racist black stereotypes, as a form of entertainment."
...The problem, as Ms. Samuels sees it, is that big lips have always been considered "ugly" until "until Jenner and other white girls came around and made them popular."
Samuels explains, "My biggest in concern is that Kylie is hailed for her big lips and for making them trendy whereas black people have been historically ridiculed for them."
(Excerpt) Read more at thepunditpress.com ...
the author is racist? big lips are racist?
[[USA Today Columnist: Trying to Have Big Lips is Racist]]
Quick somebody call the Waaaaaaaaaaaambulance!
Excerpting your own blog is racist.
dang ya gunner!
Hey Alex...stuff it.
I worked in a company where a young Mexican woman came to work with her hair in corn rows and a black woman sued the company for hostile work environment saying corn rows were a tradition in black culture and the Mexican did it just to mock her.
So. Kim Kardashian is a racist? Big ass, big lips, big tata’s.....
Anything else in there about having a team of electrolysis experts work night and day to remove all that body hair?
I don’t think it’s racist. It’s ‘fishist’. I.E......’trout mouth’.
It’s Laz’s fault!
Reality TV is not reality.
Now if I was the Mexican girl, I’d have done up my hair in that classic three pigtail straight-out fashion. That would have been ‘mocking’.
She sees racists everywhere except in the mirror.
Step away from the fishnet body-stocking ....
an eye of the Tigger moment ... Pooh
According to LIB asshats, everything is racist. So who cares?
One would surmise that white folks who snort coke, which enlarge their nostrils are also racist.
Please don’t shoot me, please .... Laz wants to do that!
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