And it's not gonna stop until we start calling these 'ignants' out.NEW YORK - Canadian singer The Weeknd said Monday that he will no longer work with H&M after the clothing company posted an ad of a black child in a sweatshirt with the words 'Coolest monkey in the jungle' on the front. Fuck lifting each other up, it's easier to tear each other down. Or so I thought before I saw this unfold. To tell the world that we will not be conform to the idea that we are ugly simply because how we're born. But that's why the whole 'black is beautiful' thing started decades ago. We've been fed the notion that European features are the standard of beauty (long hair, fair skin) for CENTURIES, and told our physical attributes are ugly. It's only blacks, and the majority are black women.īlack people always be our own worst enemy when it comes to image. And do you see people of other people pitching a fit about the state of the kid of their ethnicity's hair? Nope. Did YOU still have perfectly combed hair after 5 hours playing in the hot Saturday sun? I doubt it. It's made to look like they were playing outside all day.

All of the children had matted, messed up hair. Oooooooooooh the irony of bashing a 10-12 year old girl for wearing her hair with no product in it to a photo shoot while you wear the hair of an animal, a dead person OR synthetic hair because you're too fearful of letting the world see what grows out of your scalp REALLY looks like? Hmmmmmm? Furthermore.the entire theme of the ad is 'kids at play'. Why the fuck am I NOT surprised?Īnd the real kick in the head here is that a lion's share of these broads are weave wearing hair hats. Because the vast majority of the tweets bashing this girl AND her parents ('how they let her go out the house like that?') came from. Whatever happened to 'black is beautiful' and 'love your natural self'? I guess all of that is for show.

Seriously? SERIOUSLY!!!? Now I could side with most on the monkey debacle.but this is some flat out bullshit.īlack people are clowning this little girl because her hair was unkempt. Seems other folk saw something different.Īll over social media.namely Twitter (the bastion of bullshit it is), my fellow black folk were in a mouth frothing frenzy.about all things.her hair being nappy. It's a dark skinned black girl in a pink hoody. No, it's not a dark skinned boy in a hoody that says 'monkey' on it this time. H&M are in hot water for a black kid in an ad.

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