The *Blank Stare* Award for December 13th, 2010
No really. This picture does exist. Somewhere someone thought “We should get a model for this “Love My Hair” shirt–which is based on the critically acclaimed Sesame Street video about a black girl loving her hair. Wonder who would work best for it…hmmm…“
My brain has imploded due to unexpected large quantities of irony. Via The Random Musings & Findings of a Brooklyn Negro a.k.a. my tumblr…
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yes, but they’re trying to sell it to white people. hence, a white model.
c’mon, elon. you know the game…
Hence the *Blank Stare* award. I get why they used this model, but I also think its magically ridiculous.
*kanye shrug*
I think I get what happened here. T-shirt companies have a few photos & then photoshop the different shirts on to each one so that they don’t have to do a new shoot every time a new shirt comes out.
The shirt comes out, the company selling it grabs a model & photoshops & voila!
I don’t say this to excuse what was done or say that racism was not involved in how the shirt was (mis)interpreted by the person selecting the model for the photoshop job. I just think it would be harder to do this if they were doing an actual shirt with an actual model via IRL photography in an IRL photo studio.
And dusttracks is right – they’re trying to sell the shirt to white people, especially white women, because *that’s where the money is* right??? I mean, “I love my hair!” – who loves their hair? The blonde, white women with long hair, straight with a bit of curl at the end, right? So get a fashion-blonde to be the shirt-rep!
It all makes so much twisted sense in the twisted world of commercial bodies where the whiter the skin, the more money you take in.
I want that shirt for my little niece. Is there a source link?
I know this is besides the point…but…where can I get this shirt?
I know this is besides the point, but….where can I find this shirt?
I know this is besides the point, but….where can I find this shirt?
The Susan B. Anthony Dollar replaced the Eisenhower dollar in 1979. Susan B. Anthony fought for women’s rights, especially the right to vote, in the 1800s. When a new, smaller $1 coin was being considered, Suzie turned out to be one of the more popular subjects. Mint officials thought a smaller dollar would circulate better than the old 38-millimeter version, but the public absolutely hated the new coin because it was too easily confused with a quarter dollar (shades of the old 20-cent piece all over again). Millions of the Anthony dollars remained unissued in the government’s vaults.