http://www.pittnews.com/arts_and_entertainment/article_a0bedcb8-4ce8-11e3-9855-001a4bcf6878.html
Before you open this link viewer discretion is advised. Seriously when I watched the two video's attached to the article i found them both very disturbing. The first video is Lily Allen's (who i had never head of before until now) music video. "Its Hard Out Here for a Bitch" I find it ironic how the only dancers in the video were black implying its hard out here for black women yet objectifying them having them "twerk" on camera and other things that shall not me mentioned won't make it any harder for them.
Then in the preview of the movie "Orange is the new Black" it showed the stereotypical big angry blacks vs innocent white even in a prison setting were all where criminals. It showed black women portrayed much like black men are portrayed in prison movies. Thus implying the worst think you could possibly be in American is a African American Women.
These two video's are just flat out messed up from not only an african american standpoint but i think more importantly a african american women's standpoint. This is what I think the writers bias on his commentary on the videos was. Because he was a man he did not recognize his privilege and he said it himself when he flat out said. "I don't know if male privilege applies to me" Of corse it applies to you!! You identify yourself as a part of the dominate group which is male. This is why he tended to focus on race and not sexism with these two obvious female degrading video's.
Naija Omari
After watching the videos Naija put up I can say that I was just about as equally disturbed and I can completely understand why Naija was disturbed by these videos. It is very sad and disappointing to see things like this being portrayed on purpose with malicious intent and the even worse part is that these videos are being played to anyone who wishes to see it and the subliminal messages that target African American women are in effect subconsciously. Also I find it frustrating that African American women participate in things like this even though they recognize the fact that they are representing African American women on a larger scale. I think that the real change begins when people stop doing these wrong things for the money and instead the make the more smart decision and not participate for the right reasons.
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ReplyDeleteNaija i completely agree with you here. I listen to a lot of rap but i never pay attention to there rap videos, after watching these two videos i was highly disturbed. It is very disappointing to see how a lot of black woman are being portrayed in rap videos. Videos like this target African-American woman and portray them as "hoes", "nasty", etc, on purpose. But what also gets me mad is that these females are participating in these type of actions. What these woman are doing is that they are conditioning society to think of black woman as "nasty, "hoes", etc. One day this will stop, it also degrades minorities, and empowers the white race.
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