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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe new fashion-trend: "N*ggerfishing"
https://www.kingofreads.com/instagram-impostors-twitter-exposes-white-womens-nggerfishing-tactics/Due to the vigorous erasure of unambiguous Black women in mass media, the market for mixed-raced and racially ambiguous women has skyrocketed. To illustrate this point Black womens representation drastically shifted from the Afrocentric look in the 1990s to what we have seen and continue to see in contemporary eras of the 2000s and 2010s, which is a more universally appealing look generally found in women who are not monoracially Black. The abundance of Black women who cannot be cosplayed by white women such: members of En Vogue, Blaque, Brownstone, SWV; Brandy, Lauryn Hill, Tatyana Ali, and Nia Long dwindled in preference to: Zendaya, Kehlani, Alexandra Shipp, Amandla Stenberg, Jhene Aiko, Cassie, Yara Shahidi, and Cardi B.
The high demand for women with features that are Black enough to provide the exoticism and white enough to appeal and provide accessibility to white women created the space for literal imposters or ni**afishes. The look, popularly known as Instagram Baddie, relies on Black women as its foundation, but because Blackness fails white beauty standards it has to be adequately removed from Blackness to appeal to white women. The Instagram Baddie aesthetic for non-Black women results in more likes on social media which operates as social currency thus inadvertently; however, more times than not, intentionally garners recognition from beauty corporations invested in exploiting the insecurities of women for profit.
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Now, in the modern-age, racial ambiguity has afforded mixed-raced, and consequently white women, the privilege of trapezing a broader demographic. For whites and non-Black people of color Instagram baddies are exotic, and to Blacks, these women are still seen as Black because there may be a little bit of Black in them, even when it turns out there isnt any at all. This more expansive demographic translates to higher opportunities for marketability and monetary profit because diverse groups of people will consume the image of these women more favorably.
The preeminent non-Black women to ni**erfish in the contemporary era are the Kardashian-Jenners. They may not have been duped the public into believing that they are Black; however, they tap into Black womens aesthetic for their marketability
The high demand for women with features that are Black enough to provide the exoticism and white enough to appeal and provide accessibility to white women created the space for literal imposters or ni**afishes. The look, popularly known as Instagram Baddie, relies on Black women as its foundation, but because Blackness fails white beauty standards it has to be adequately removed from Blackness to appeal to white women. The Instagram Baddie aesthetic for non-Black women results in more likes on social media which operates as social currency thus inadvertently; however, more times than not, intentionally garners recognition from beauty corporations invested in exploiting the insecurities of women for profit.
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Now, in the modern-age, racial ambiguity has afforded mixed-raced, and consequently white women, the privilege of trapezing a broader demographic. For whites and non-Black people of color Instagram baddies are exotic, and to Blacks, these women are still seen as Black because there may be a little bit of Black in them, even when it turns out there isnt any at all. This more expansive demographic translates to higher opportunities for marketability and monetary profit because diverse groups of people will consume the image of these women more favorably.
The preeminent non-Black women to ni**erfish in the contemporary era are the Kardashian-Jenners. They may not have been duped the public into believing that they are Black; however, they tap into Black womens aesthetic for their marketability
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The new fashion-trend: "N*ggerfishing" (Original Post)
DetlefK
Nov 2018
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Funtatlaguy
(10,893 posts)1. That also what filthy racists in Georgia and Florida call voter recounts.
My racist brother actually said that it is so illegal that all of those people in those two states are fishing for votes for those two n*****s.
It sickens me that I share his dna.
PJMcK
(22,067 posts)2. You are scientific proof, however...
...that racism is not inbred. It is learned.
Sorry about your brother. He is on the losing side of history and evolution.
Funtatlaguy
(10,893 posts)3. Thank you. My Dad was racist. Mom was not.
Harker
(14,069 posts)4. Same here.
I have one brother. And one ex-brother.
Funtatlaguy
(10,893 posts)5. We both care for my mother with Alzheimer's.
Once shes gone, I will have no reason to interact with him.
Harker
(14,069 posts)6. Your doing what's best for her is beautiful.
Common ground can surely, if only situationally, overcome differences. Fractured families come with a steep price.
My best to you all of you in trying times.