Blm Question

[smurfchops]

If BLM activists are so proud of their heritage why do so many of them want to look white? ‘Celebs’ like Beyoncé, Naomi Campbell, Meghan Markle, all straighten their hair. Numerous celebs (eg Beyoncé again) dye their hair blonder, as do many activists seen on TV as well as black reporters. And so many wear straight-hair wigs... And why do some e.g. La Toyah and Janet Jackson, lighten their skin and have plastic surgery on their noses to make them smaller? Michael Jackson ... well we won’t even go there. Just wondered.

[barry1010]

Fashion, innit. White girls are risking skin cancer tanning their skin or turning orange with fake tan; women are either straightening curly hair or curling straight hair; skinny girls are having foreign bodies inserted under their skin to give them artificial curves, curvy girls are dieting to lose them.
Everyone is trying to 'improve' their appearance instead of being happy with how they are. It's always been so and always will be.

[Ken4155]

It could also be asked why many of those who are downright racist against people of colour, do their utmost to get the deepest tan they can achieve. I have no examples, of course, because no-one I can think of is brave enough to admit being a racist.

[gulliver1]

Will I still be allowed to drive my black car?.

[Barsel]

ken, someone once told me there's a bit of racism in everyone. If not about black people, but Indian, Pakistan, Jewish people, Germans,etc.
I knew of a woman, (in recent years ) who wouldn't let Indian or Pakistani doctors anywhere near her.As barry has said,a lot of us try to change our appearance just because we think it might make us look better.

[Jackdaw33]

Can anyone explain to me why the term 'coloured people' is frowned upon yet 'people of colour' is perfectly acceptable?

[smurfchops]

But I don’t hear white people banging on about their heritage and how proud they are to be white. BLM brigade seem to want to be proud of how god made them, but some of them want to change it to look white. Can’t understand.

[Theland]

Excellent question.
Just look at BBC news presenters and reporters.
Most of the women have darkish skin and that's it.
Not one, (as far as I can tell), any with full blown African features, b!back skin, thick lips, flared nostrils and frizzy hair.
The BBC like to say they are diverse and inclusive, but shy away from using the true Africans on the TV.
I think they are racist but like to broadcast that are not, and do the minimum required to tick the boxes.

[douglas9401]

To find a job is like the haystack needle
Cos where he lives they don't use coloured people.

[ichkeria]

Excellent question?

I don't mean to be rude, but I was just thinking it was one of the daftest questions, I've seen.
No offence.

Michael Jackson, just to point out the obvious, died years before BLM was even thought of :-)

[naomi24]

Several of the famous have apologised for sporting corn row hair styles - cultural appropriation you know - Katy Perry and Florence Pugh (?) (no, me neither) among them, so I suppose that will be a no go area for the rest of us now. Shame for the lovely, happy ladies who, with their boxes of brightly coloured beads and ribbons, roam Caribbean beaches earning their living by making us all look pretty. I guess we’ll have to say ‘No thanks’ now.

[Theland]

They'll have to swap their beads and ribbons for books and pamphlets on how to enjoy your holiday without feeling guilty for white privilege.

[Theland]

I think if the BBC go for the full, ''African Look,'' as they should if they practice what they preach, many viewers will turn off, preferring to view their own, '' tribe.''

[smurfchops]

I don’t think there will be any white reporters on TV soon ....

[Mamyalynne]

Dear oh dear.

People have sought to alter and meddle with their appearance as long as mankind has walked the planet - some of this alarmist stuff is really quite sad to read.

[bednobs]

I had my hair permed in the 80s. Does that mean I want to be black? no Or that I am not "proud" of my heritage (whatever that actually means)no. It simply means I wanted curly hair. I currently have dye in my hair - does that have a wider meaning? (clue: no it doesn't, I just wanted red hair for a while)
in any case even if these "so many" celebrities you talk of (six) wanted to look more white, why do you think that is? Could it be because they want some of that white privilege that's being decried?

[naomi24]

What alarmist stuff?

[Mamyalynne]

To name one

//I don’t think there will be any white reporters on TV soon ....//

The World domination theory, I find it sad even if others don't.

[naomi24]

Oh, okay.

[Ken4155]

Are all those you mentioned actually "BLM activists", smurfchops?

[Theland]

Having had BLM and black issues forced down my throat so much lately, Imnave given the issue much thought, and come to the conclusion that we whites should acquiesce and let blacks have everything they want, then let them get on with it.
The same thing will then happen here as in the US.
Black governor, black mayor, black police chief, black fire chief, majority black council. Then they became the elite, doing nothing for the ordinary black person, because that is the way of black culture, the truth that dare not speak it name.
Let them do it here too starting with TV.