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10/30/09
Tyra's narcism has fully replaced any morsel of common sense that was once up there. Jay's repeated WTF faces to her throughout the show were genius. I was intrigued that while all the girls were painted, she left Sundae's face au natural. Im just not sure how appropriate it is to continuously paint white girl's faces black under the guise of a modeling competition. #antmblackface
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Tyra, Tyra, Tyra. You act like an alien. But like a talk show alien. #antmblackface
10/29/09
(I'm a yellow/tan-colored black person. Technically, I would argue that most American blacks are mixed race folks, but I digress.) I said, no, I'm just black. And then they go, "Are you sure?!," acting like I let them down. Apparently being just "black" isn't "exotic" or "interesting."
Sigh.
The memories ANTM evoke. #antmblackface
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What really interested me about the history of the plantations is how they used racial attitudes and developed them for capitalist gains. They started to import more workers from different areas once a population of any one or two races grew to a level in which they could create an effective union and make demands.
Really shows the importance of fighting against stereotypes and racial divides. The common worker benefits if we can see past race to create better working environments by uniting. #antmblackface
10/30/09
Fucking A! Remember this? (I actually voted for Hillary in the primaries, but I think that this is important in more than the primary sense. Also I love unions.) #antmblackface
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Selling crazy.
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You: Mommy, where do babies come from?
Tyra: Babies come from "what happens when men and women from different places come together." #antmblackface
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P.S. PM'ing you. #antmblackface
10/29/09
From Wikipedia:
In the Hawaiian language, hapa is defined as: portion, fragment, part, fraction, installment; to be partial, less. It is a loan from the English word half. However, in Hawaiian Pidgin (the creole spoken by many Hawai'i residents), hapa has an extended meaning of "half-caste" or "of mixed descent". Mary Pukui & Samuel Ebert's Hawaiian Dictionary define hapa as: "of mixed blood, person of mixed blood as in hapa hawai'i, part Hawaiian." [See: Pukui, Mary Kawena, and Samuel H. Ebert, Hawaiian Dictionary, Revised and enlarged edition, University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu HI, 1986] The word hapa has moved into mainland English.
Used without qualification, hapa is often taken to mean "part White", and is short hand for hapa haole. The term can be used in conjunction with other Hawaiian racial and ethnic descriptors to specify a particular racial or ethnic mixture.
I don't see how that doesn't apply to Obama. Wikipedia doesn't say it's derogatory, and I've never heard the term before, but it seems like it's just a Hawaiian term for biracial. #antmblackface
10/29/09
Also, such as, "hapa" is an adjective, not a noun. No one is *a* hapa, Tyra. I'm not sure if I should be offended by that but I know it bugs me. #antmblackface
10/29/09
Also, ditto on the hapa = adjective, not noun comments. #antmblackface
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But I figure with the way most non-English words are generally, loosely incorporated into the language, it wouldn't be unusual to see the definition extended to any biracial person. #antmblackface
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She was then told off in panel for not having asked them. But you just knew that if she had, she would have got a crap edit and been told off too. They can't win on this show against Tyra's weird passive aggression. #antmblackface
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this. this is what makes you awesome #antmblackface
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I'm kind of feeling like that's how TyTy got to some of the conclusions she got to, so you shouldn't have any problems. #antmblackface
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Also, Tyra totally chose Malagasy so that she could show off that she knew what it meant. Shut Up Tyra. #antmblackface
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