Posted on 11/23/2016 6:36:20 AM PST by grundle
Emily Bador is a white woman. She is not, therefore, a black woman. Normally, that wouldn’t be news worth reporting, mostly because it isn’t news.
But her race came into play recently due to the new cover of Blackhair magazine, a British glossy that bills itself as “an international bi-monthly magazine for the style conscious black woman. Packed with 100’s of hair inspirations, fashion, lifestyle and celebrity interviews, we are one of the leading publications for women of colour in Europe.”
The magazine, which generally if not always features black or mixed-race models, used her photograph for the cover of its December/January issue. The editors have admitted they didn’t know she was white.
Her apology:
"I would deeply and sincerely like to apologise to every one for this, and black women especially. I would like to clarify, I believe this shoot is from when I was around 15 and didn't understand cultural appropriation or the impact it has on POC. I was uneducated, which obviously is no excuse, ignorant and immature. Growing up in a very very white city, I had no idea the struggles black women face and how often they were persecuted for their hair. I didn't understand how black women are constantly told their natural hair is inappropriate/unprofessional for the work place, or how young girls are told they can't go to school with natural hair..."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
“LOL. That would have been like making a movie about Martin Luther King Jr. and casting Chris Farley in the lead role.”
Ok, am I the only person here who would have watched that?
She looks at least as black as Rachel Dolizel.
What’s that you say? They put Black Beauty on the cover? I read the book as a kid.
No. I would have been all over that one. LOL.
Struggles of black women and their hair? What, like in sanding a dowel?
The model had nothing to apologize over.
My choice would have been Sam Kinison, who was a preacher in an earlier career.
Never apologize. Never explain.
Tell the butthurt leftists and race baiters to FOAD.
cultural appropriation?..................
At 15 she’s a girl, not a woman.
I wonder if a black model appeared on the cover of a white only magazine if she would apologize? Of course not because it would not happen since it is a federal crime (in this nation) to have a “white only” anything. /s
Did they think the Ring in her nose meant something ?
Earthlings Obsessed With Skin Color Destroy Planet 
It's worse than you know...
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