Sheryl Lee Ralph’s Red-Carpet Commentary On Black Beauty Was Spicy And Perfect
Huff PostWhen Sheryl Lee Ralph speaks, the world listens. And Ralph made it all the more spicy by dropping the name of the family most often accused of altering their bodies to look like Black women’s. And there is certainly nothing wrong with your lips, because there will be some people called ‘Kardashians,’ and they will pay $10,000 for your lips,” she assured her tender teenage self. The things that Black folks create, innovate, or are naturally graced with are often demonized until someone non-Black copies it and makes it “trendy.” It then becomes a commodity for the masses — think extreme tanning, dressing like us, copying hairstyles, the use of AAVE, the popularity of the BBL, and all the other mimicking of Black aesthetics and expression. There has been a running joke over the past year about how we’ve watched various famous white women start to ditch their stolen Black aesthetic to go back to being plain white women.
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