![]() ![]() Right away, it’s the stupid, racist white girl who disrespected black people. You have a point to prove, which simply put is that white people are bad. ![]() Perhaps, to show the fact that this could be any of us? But no, you don’t bother going any further, you don’t care. She may have had a good reason to photoshop her face onto hell the others. Can folks do better in 2016 or is that too much to ask? I’m rooting for white folks who know better to tell their cousins to chill. A bored white woman trying to get some Black on her. But ok.Īnd this article showed up on the website “Bored Panda.” How fitting. ![]() I’m only saying “NIGGER” 54 times in this scene to show how oppressive it is!’ Sure. She is basically Quentin Tarantino’s cousin. And what does this photoshop project concretely do? It is the epitome of cultural appropriation and it needs to be in the dictionary next to a CAPS version of the word NO. As she’s painting her face brown in a photo-editing software, she is doing nothing to honor the folks she is miming. This is self-serving bullshit, and Boglarka is swimming in white privilege. They want to talk about the “exotic” which usually refers to “they do stuff that is so different from us that we must study them like fish in an aquarium.” Because the only story they want to tell about Africa and Africans are of the struggles. She is Columbussing the pictures of these tribespeople and patting her back like she just did something amazing.įurthermore, I’m over this obsession with African “tribes.” When people use tribes, they usually refer only to the ones that are in rural areas, and untouched by Western technology. What she is doing here is way more oppressive than she thinks, as she is believing that she is somehow being a Good Samaritan documentarian. Erasing us from our lands, our contributions, our history, and forcefully putting themselves there. Which, oddly enough, is exactly what white people have been doing to Black folks for a while. In some of these pics, she literally copied and pasted her own eyes unto the eyes of the people, replacing them. Why she thought it was necessary to then make them her own is beyond me. This is neither noble nor innovative. Surely, we can’t understand their struggle without having a blond white woman juxtapose herself into their markers, like it’s Halloween. She ain’t raising a lick of awareness by Photoshopping herself into a painted version of their images. Take their pictures, record them on video, let them speak. She could record them and have them talk about what they’re going through. Why not raise awareness by simply telling the stories of these tribes? OR having them talk about their own experiences. The hell is that doing for the price of formula in Beijing? It’s like me saying I’m a baby again by putting on a diaper and peeing in it. She is raising awareness by making herself one of them in the most shallow way possible. Ma’am, if you don’t go occupy every seat in Kilimanjaro this moment! Her post was called “ I Morphed Myself Into Tribal Women To Raise Awareness Of Their Secluded Cultures.”Īll the NOPES that ever NOPED in NOPELAND. To do it, Boglarka photoshopped a picture of herself into some of the tribesmen because: awareness. She says “she travels the world and writes about human rights issues.” Ok, cool.Īpparently, she has spent a lot of time in Africa (because of course), and she wants to let us all know about the struggling tribes there who are endangered. The latest in the WHY MUST YOU FAIL SO BAD? life series is from a Hungarian journalist named Boglarka Balogh. You really wanted to honor us in some way but one way you could do it is by having a Black friend who has sense, so you can run things by them. The year is fresh but what’s really old is well-meaning white people who do things that make my blood pressure rise. ![]()
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