when magazines praise white people for their 'bold, bohemian' dreds on one page and then rip into black celebs with 'nappy haired patchouli and weed stinking' deads on the next page
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I remember Rancic making some remark about a black celeb's dreads making her look like she smelled of patchouli oil or maybe weed, but nowhere did the word "nappy" come into it, which is pretty important since "nappy" would take Rancic's commentary from being somewhat culturally insensitive, to being straight up racist.
I also have never (seriously, NEVER, and I flip through a fair number of magazines) seen a magazine go from praising a white person's emulation of black style, to making racist comments about a black person's style, within the same issue, in the manner you are suggesting here.
I won't argue that when white celebs emulate the fashion of other non-white cultures, their fashion choices often garner more favorable reviews than people of color receive. But IMO the issue is rarely as blatant or as cut and dried as you're depicting it to be.
And maybe some native Hawaiians get to be background characters!
This is basically just how the film industry works. I'm a background actor in Vancouver, and I can tell you that very few local actors get hired for anything more than a line or two. Mostly, we make up the background. Why? Because the American productions that come up here to film already have their primary cast when they come up here from LA (or occasionally some other major city). Even the whitest of white Vancouverites basically has to move to LA if they want a shot at making it.
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I remember Rancic making some remark about a black celeb's dreads making her look like she smelled of patchouli oil or maybe weed, but nowhere did the word "nappy" come into it, which is pretty important since "nappy" would take Rancic's commentary from being somewhat culturally insensitive, to being straight up racist.
I also have never (seriously, NEVER, and I flip through a fair number of magazines) seen a magazine go from praising a white person's emulation of black style, to making racist comments about a black person's style, within the same issue, in the manner you are suggesting here.
I won't argue that when white celebs emulate the fashion of other non-white cultures, their fashion choices often garner more favorable reviews than people of color receive. But IMO the issue is rarely as blatant or as cut and dried as you're depicting it to be.
And maybe some native Hawaiians get to be background characters!
This is basically just how the film industry works. I'm a background actor in Vancouver, and I can tell you that very few local actors get hired for anything more than a line or two. Mostly, we make up the background. Why? Because the American productions that come up here to film already have their primary cast when they come up here from LA (or occasionally some other major city). Even the whitest of white Vancouverites basically has to move to LA if they want a shot at making it.