Comments on: The media’s obsession with skinny white girls

By: ilovedank

ilovedank — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 05:20:10 +0000

okay hatting on skinny white girls wow real mature wow,
whatever i agree many skinny whites girls are hot thats with the obssession, attractive people are alweys liked or looked at

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:15:16 +0000

The reason for the obsession with skinny white girls? Many skinny white girls are hot and as a result, quality options for magazine covers.

By: Shon

Shon — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 16:12:26 +0000

Wow! I am surprised that we are even spending time worried about the papparazzi for entertainers of African decent in opposed to their European counterparts. In an age where our people are being legally enslaved by the judicial system and our fahers are “congratulated” for knowing their kids, this type of dialog is fruitless. Who gives a damn what a celebrity does in their spare time. Stop being sedated by the b.s. and open your eyes to the real issues that effect the disadvantaged. Peace to you and your families.

By: V.K. Bullock

V.K. Bullock — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 09:52:53 +0000

Raven and the rest should get a life and a country or a status among your own kind. We need to stop begging white America for equal opportunities in the media. Just allign with the disapora of our own world and see what happens. If we don’t have it, let’s build it.

Actually we do have a world of our own.

By: Duane

Duane — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 20:48:03 +0000

You are right. Raven and other black celebs should consider themselves fortunate that they are not really targeted by paparazzi. It sounds like Raven has good parent(s) that are encouraging her to be herself. That is a lesson that will go with her for a lifetime.

By: Sherman

Sherman — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 17:55:41 +0000

I agree that this has been an issue for a very long time, but I’m not sure if it’s really worth my time to worry about whether a high-paid black celebrity is getting enough coverage in the mainstream media. Don’t get me wrong – I love Raven (and so do my children), but then again that’s the point.

Raven may feel bad for a minute about the lack of paparazzi at her party, but then she can comfort herself with the fact that she is raking in millions of dollars from mainstream Disney and its mainstream viewers – not to mention the millions that have rolled in from Cosby syndication and the upcoming release of Cosby DVDs (when they get to her seasons).

I think she’ll be fine, and will outlast those other celebs we see on the cover of a magazine once (only to be forgotten in a week).

By: John Lindsay

John Lindsay — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 14:25:03 +0000

This occurs everywhere: ISP homepages, amazon.com, textbooks, novels, and so on; even Parade (Suday’s paper) presents the most little-known white celebrity in “In Step With”(James Brady).

Michael jackson was right when he criticized the music industry for not promoting its Black artists. I’ve been sending complaints to amazon.com for doing the same: recommending white artists over “the Others.”

Today’s pattern is the same as the past, in that we’re most likely to see news of rapper’s antics than we are positive news.

The Washington post recently published an article by African American columnist Eugene Robinson titled “Damsels in DIstress,” which discussed the media’s frenzy of covering “missing white women while completely ignoring other missing persons.”

All of this is inter-related.

John Lindsay