Comments on: The Naked Black Female Body: A Recurring Theme

By: Khinderburg

Khinderburg — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:27:00 +0000

The thing is people don’t see it the way you do, everybody usually is negative when looking at black women.

By: john Shepard

john Shepard — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 22:21:09 +0000

What is her E-mail address

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 22:14:33 +0000

I would love to ha ve been that baby

By: michael

michael — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 02:36:06 +0000

i think you had the most thought provoking comment about this article.

By: Karen

Karen — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 20:29:23 +0000

Part of the debate might be relevant and interesting… I gave up half way… but it no doubt is.

However if you at the same time complain that no one uses other than white Caucasian models…

then this is the kind of blog / reaction that stops companies from diversifying the models they use.

By: anonimo

anonimo — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 12:02:12 +0000

vai se fuder seu racista de merda…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 13:08:43 +0000

hey baby

By: truthserum

truthserum — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:17:42 +0000

So what? A black woman is caring for a baby who is clearly not her own. Babysitters of many races do it all the time.

So what? She’s flashing someone. She’s got charisma. Could it be that its seen as sexy? The audience is white America, they like stuff like that! Why do you think white women started the womens’ movement??? If the black woman wasn’t the one doing it, people would argue ‘WHY CANT THEY LET A BLACK WOMAN BE THE OUTGOING, SEXY ONE?! Why does the white woman get to the be flashing eye-candy?’ You can’t have it both ways. Why bitch about something like this?

If you want to bitch about something make it relevant. Question why everytime a birth control pill commercial or other ‘womens’ prescription’ commercial comes on and there is a black woman among the white women, why they ALWAYS aim at her face when they announce ‘this pill does not protect against HIV, AIDS…”. If they don’t aim at her face, she’s the only one standing up or doing something where you can pick her out of the crowd.

Or how about how the black cartoon/commercial characters always seem to have the sista girl voice– and the blatant sista girl voice, at that. Like a well-spoken black woman was told ‘be more ghetto’ and so she tried– and failed. But it works for the mainstream. Bitch about that.

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Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:36:17 +0000

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By: Kandeezie

Kandeezie — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:32:33 +0000

It was the colonialists that decided to “clothe” the “uncivilized”. It’s European culture that has shaped many of our understandings of “decency” and “body”. I wonder if this obsession has an element of voyeurism as well. Probably in the context of seeing whiteness as bland/without culture and non-whites as with culture/ethnicity (from which whiteness has to draw from). These images raise some interesting questions for me.

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Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:43:30 +0000

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By: Gwen

Gwen — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:15:39 +0000

I have learned over time that many people have workplaces with much stricter regulations on what is “inappropriate” than what I would have thought, and that many readers could definitely have some problems if they were caught looking at that on a work computer. Keep in mind, I bet a lot of people work in places where a nursing mother *would* be seen as horrifically inappropriate. So my “not safe for work” label isn’t an indication that I personally think it’s problematic, but just that I’ve learned that for many people’s workplaces, it would be.

By: Abby

Abby — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:17:57 +0000

Wait a minute, why is a picture of a woman breastfeeding “not safe for work”? I mean, obviously there is a lot more boob showing than a typical nursing mom reveals, but it’s not pornographic.

By: Cynthia

Cynthia — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:18:44 +0000

My mind automatically went to this photograph by Robert Frank:
http://antiquesandthearts.com/Archives/2009/05-May/images//2009-05-19__15-16-31Image3.GIF

By: Jess

Jess — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:21:05 +0000

The black women taking care of white babies gave me some food for thought, about my cultural expectations and reactions to them. I was too young in the 80s to know what the general reaction would have been at the time, but in this age of trendy international adoptions of babies of colour by white parents, my first response is to think that it's unusual (possibly refreshing) to see it happening the other way around. I was also reminded of this Newsweek article about a black family who adopted a white girl, and the various negative reactions to that. (The article itself is, as one commenter said at the site where I got it from, uneven in its cluefulness, but the problems it describes are very telling.) Of course there is a greater historical context of exploitation of black women in colonial settings, which the breastfeeding image in particular brings to mind. However, to me, steeped as I am in current popular culture, the very first reaction was to the inversion of what I'm used to seeing, which is a whole different kind of exploitation. (I'm talking about the kind of international adoption that creates a market for, basically, selling babies, or coercing women of colour to give up their wanted babies.)