Re: Re: Re: Would It Be Ok To Have A All White Beauty Pagent?
curling said:
Vatech15,
Why don't you pucker up bend over and kiss my white ass. This is not what this post is about. You have your head so far up your ass it's not even stinky anymore?
This post is about the black population calling their pagents "Black" or "afro American" excluding other races and not thinking nothing of it. What I was saying if whites did the same thing, the blacks would be all over it saying it was racist.
Tell you what just answer me this. If we had a white pagent or a white college fund, what would the NAACP do? And be honest. Because if you are you know what they would do, they bitch and whine like they always do. With their babbling idiot Jesse Jackson leading the way.
vatech15 is absolutely correct, and ON TOPIC. The whole point of having black pageants in the first place is because whites have a different view of beauty than blacks, and therefore, blacks would never, in the past, win a white pageant. Women, as late as the 70's, were judged on their beauty and capacity in the home for the most part, so being a beautiful woman opens doors that wouldn't have been opened in the first place.
The black beauty pageant began as a way to offer black women OPPORTUNITY that they wouldn't normally have.
Remember Vanessa Williams? She is mixed, like me, and that is why she was the first black Miss America or whatever.
Her beauty falls along the lines of a dark white person. Black beauty will never be understood by whites....flame away...talk Whoopi Goldberg or whatever...but there are some incredibly beautiful black women in the world who, back then, would never be recognized.
Things HAVE changed. Entertainment, hip hop and whatnot, has made blackness 'mainstream'.
Remember pop music before hip hop? Do you think that's why Michael Jackson changed his face and color?
There needs to be change...blacks suffer from inertia just like any other group. We may no longer need black pageants, BUT WE DID BEFORE.
They are still here for a variety of reasons, mostly capitalistic.
White pageants are nothing more than a celebration of female beauty and 'talent' from a white perspective. How can someone say black pageants were never needed?
musclebrains mentioned the politicization of homosexuality...have any of you considered that claiming your blackness is yet another way to leverage a population politically?
This leverage can be both positive and negative. Smart politicians put down the Sharpton's and the Jesse's because that's how you de-legitimize a political group...by de-legitimizing their leader. And you ruin the power of an entire group.
Blacks definitely need another strategy. Whites have figured out how to maneuver around black political strength. And black pageants were just one part of the whole game of mobilizing a group to gain political power....black pride, is the game.
Now please....move on. This stuff is so obviously inflammatory...white pageants...gimme a break.
Learn your history!