Note to Modeling Industry: Cute Little Black Girls Are Everywhere

After writing two stories on my Web site, The Black Snob, about the advertising/modeling industry suddenly scratching their heads and having their worlds turned upside down by clients wanting a more "ethnic" look in the kid campaigns due to First Daughter Fever, and reading unadulterated nonsense like, "(T)he First Daughters are tough subjects to match" and "It's a very specific age and a very specific ethnicity, so there aren't that many girls that would necessarily fit the bill, (New York Magazine online)" I can no longer stand idle and say do nothing.

We at The Black Snob aren't just about complaining! We're here to help the clueless who seem to think black Americans (the kind with African, European and other mixed ancestry) are, you know, hard to find. Even if there are 40 million blacks in America (according to a 2006 US Census study) and almost all of us fit that make-up in some way, shape or form and their are millions of little girls, each cuter than the last.

So, if you know a cute little black/brown girl, working professionally as a model or is an undiscovered diamond in your family, school or neighborhood (with the parents' or guardian's permission), please submit her adorable picture to The Black Snob's "Cute Black Girls Are Everywhere, You Idiots" campaign, via email where we will happily put together a lovely post and release a press packet to the dunderheads at Wilhelmina to say, "Um...looking for cute, little black girls? You're doin' it wrong!"

Let's get the industry to acknowledge that cute black girls aren't a myth! I have seen them! They're real! (And you just didn't want to employ them because you didn't think they'd be profitable!)

Let's show how these agencies were caught flat-footed by this new request for diversity because the industry was never interested in using minority children in ad campaigns, pictorials, fashion editorials or otherwise until the Obamas made black "in" again.

Thank you in advance for your support. I look forward to coo, ooh and aah over the undeniable cuteness of your offspring, siblings and future super models!

Deadline for submissions: February 8th!
Send to: [e-mail]
Read the original article here: http://blacksnob.com/snob_blog/2009/2/1/solutions-help-madison-avenue-find-fauxbama-girls.html

(And feel free to link away!)

Comments

[Alirocks]

I'm a white girl... straight from the suburbs. White as it gets. Anyway, I just wanted to say I completely agree with your article! One of the prettiest girls in my high school was black... And India.Arie, Thandie Newton, Mary J, Eve, Rihanna.... so beautiful (I dated a black guy in high school as well and used to wish I was black too, so India's song "Brown Skin" would apply to me... I know it's naive, but true nonetheless). I just wanted to say not all white people refuse to see the beauty in brown skinned ladies (and men for that matter). I would LOVE to see more black girls/ladies/women in ad campaigns and on the runway, so note to all you designers: It's boring to see the same Russian/Eastern European faces and bodies who wear your clothes in the same old way....

[oneofmany1234]

The problem that many Americans are faced with is that even tho they pass us on the street, work with us, communicate with us, and are possibly even friends with us, they don't associate the Average black person with those they see on the news every night.
For some reason, the Average black person is INVISIBLE to the average white person, or is an exception.
The only blacks they recognize are the criminals they are scared of. And we are lumped into one expectation, despite the fact that we are in and excel in every situation the average human is in.

Now that we have a family that looks like and represents what I grew up with, in the White House, they are still not prepared to deal with the ignorance that runs rampant. Now all of a sudden Black People Are In! Give me a break!!

This of course is not a blanket statement covering all whites, but to the many that still think like Wilhelmina and others mentioned. This is not reality, just a way to cover up their over racism.

Reality hurts, so now the history of this country is smacking you in the face everyday on CNN!

Pretty black girls were here from day one. The slave master agreed, and so do ur sons!

[luvangelHussein330]

Love it!! Hopefuly this will extend into Older girls, teenagers, and adults....

[anghiari]

The black Snob? ...hopeyouarejoking...have never understood the concept...anyblackpersonanywhereanytime, no matter how much education, money, sophistication, accomplishment can have some idiot refuse you cab service or suggest that you are the in fact the car jockey, while you are waiting for your Mercedes, he attempts to hand YOU the keys to get his Ford....my point ? being a black snob is an insult to your ancestors and their history in this country. Please note how far it got Starr Jones!

[Danielle Celena Belton - Huffpost Blogger]

Um ... the name is satire. Not an endorsement of actual self-entitlement. But I'm glad to know you don't have a sense of humor.