Favourite Top African and Black Models

[Gypsy_Doll]

Originally Posted by electricladyland

since when?

Exactly. Let me not respond. This might be a wasted thread. Some of us are on different levels. Well, I speak for myself.

[inhirnamy137]

Naomi Campbell- great runway walker, and very exotic look.

Liyah-classic face

Alek Wek- underrepresented beauty

[MicheleIman]

Pat Cleveland was and is one of the most stunning women that has ever modeled. She has a regal attitude about her (in a good way of course) and now her daughter in in the business. She looks like see spit her out.

[OMIFAN9]

Originally Posted by simplylovely

Naomi Sims & Beverly are true legends! Love to see Pat again, its been so long. More like Dorothea Dandridge. I hardly remember Donyale Luna, I remember seeing her in a few magazines but not thinking she really stood out. My my, Helen is a stunning beauty!

Pat has always been such a unique presence on the runway! Dorothea Dandridge! The thing with Donyale is she hit than totally just didn't live well so she didn't reach her full potential...and than there is that another thing,too! To touch on it lightly,her casting aside of those she embodied hurt her in the department of maximum long-term endurance after the 70s. Helen,oh yes she is one of those women that in her heyday I woudn't mind looking like!

[xmodel citizen]

Originally Posted by jollyvixen

A person can "identify" with whatever category they choose, but it does not change your genetics. I have a mixed niece and nephew, but they don't go around picking one of their backgrounds over the other because it's politically correct to do so.

I find it amusing that whites were the ones to implement the "one-drop rule" to lower the status of blacks and mixed raced individuals, but blacks have taken the rule over and now use it as a status of pride. Halle Berry is a good example of that. She rants about how "black" she is, even though her black dad was absent from her life and she was raised by her white mother. Many of the first "blacks" to accomplish in society are actually multi-racial, but it would be too much of a powder keg to admit it.

I don't understand why you have to pride out your "black" side over your other backgrounds just because that race was discriminated against in the past. Those days are over and there is absolutely nothing wrong with being multi-racial.

Totally agree! People constantly tell me I'm not Hispanic because I'm "white". I'm 1/4 Hispanic but I identify more with that side of me because the only person in my entire family I was truly close to was my Hispanic grandfather (I don't know my father and my mom never got along with her mother). Saying someone has to "choose sides" is ridiculous. We all have different backgrounds and various circumstances that contribute to our individual identity. It's not a one-size-fits-all issue.

My sister is half black and her children's father was half-Black and half-Native American. Do they have to identify themselves as black solely based on skin color despite the fact that they are also Native American, Spanish and a variety of other ethnicities? I don't see the point in somehow choosing to be one ethnicity and one ethnicity only when the Native American, European, Asian, and Middle Eastern cultures are equally as rich, diverse and important.

[electricladyland]

It's not about what you choosed but why you choose it. Unfortunately some people have internalized so much racism that they are ashamed to be black. They then down play their blackness by announcing that they are all of these other things as well. Or they deny their blackness altogether if they can pass. That is their right of course. And I'm not saying that anyone should deny his/her other ethnicities, but if they are ashamed of one part of their heritage then, how sad.

[simplylovely]

Why not be proud to be mixed (not a mut....mixed!)? Why should they choose sides, why not admit your mix and embrace it? I'm pretty sick of the topic to be honest and I wish we all just move on already!

[OMIFAN9]

Ms.Waris Dirie starring in "Up to the Minute" Mademoiselle(1991) by Neil Kirk. Photo Source:scanned by me

[simplylovely]

^Stunning woman! Thanks for posting omi

[electricladyland]

Originally Posted by simplylovely

Why not be proud to be mixed (not a mut....mixed!)? Why should they choose sides, why not admit your mix and embrace it? I'm pretty sick of the topic to be honest and I wish we all just move on already!

of course you should "admit" your mix and always be proud of who you are. I'm not sure why there is such a need for a black african model thread if we should all just embrace being mixed.

[OMIFAN9]

Personally I don't see why there shouldn't be! I mean isn't there still a 'mixed' as you say thread for models? I think these recent 'discussions' have a better place there if they constantly are being addressed. And I agree with Simply in just moving on.

[OMIFAN9]

Originally Posted by simplylovely

^Stunning woman! Thanks for posting omi

Isn't she though!

[electricladyland]

wow...guess we should stick to pretty pictures...

[OMIFAN9]

Tomiko Fraser(1995) by Ruven Afanador. Photo Source:scanned by me

[OMIFAN9]

Janine Green by Peter Gravelle(1991)for Donna Magazine. Photo Source:scanned by me