georgia boi
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Brova;1212088 said:Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's all well and good, but Uncle Toms like Puff have gotta go cuz they are influencing our community in a negative way. You tellin me Puff couldn't find a black woman for his campaign?
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Diddy putting a Black female in that ad wouldn't have done anything to help the community or empower the community as a whole. It's all about how Black women view themselves. Giving power to ads and music videos to guide and direct the paradigm of what a woman should be is what has destroyed a lot of women to begin with. People have a choice and a person forfeits that choice by giving power to other entities to direct how they should behave and carry themselves.
It doesn't matter how many Black females are placed in ads and videos, there will always be a negative aspect to it. The first argument will be: "she isn't Black enough" or "she's too Black". The next argument will be "how she was exploited to sell a product". Those issues are bigger than any ad campaign that any entertainer could create because these are psychological problems that plague our community that can't be resolved by just simply placing more African Americans in ads, television, commercials, and positions of power. It's about how one perceives him or herself which runs deeper than race and skin color. If people view themselves as inferior as a human being they will imitate whatever they perceive is the standard.
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