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It feels like just yesterday when Miley stepped onto the VMA stage touching herself, spanking people’s behinds and gyrating against Robin Thicke’s striped pants.
It’s six months later but the imagery from that performance is indelibly engraved in many people’s minds. Unfortunately for most of us, I might add.
After her performance, Miley received a lot of criticism for her abrasive sexual gestures and the objectification of her black female dancers.
In case you missed it, Miley did not only appropriate the whole twerking thing from black dancers and musicians, but in the beginning of her VMA performance Miley spanks and bites the bum of one of the black dancers.
In the music video for her song We can’t stop, it’s the black girls who teach Miley how to twerk and are happy when she finally gets it right.
But according to Jezebel, Miley doesn’t care if there are people who think the way she uses black women is sexually offensive and racist.
She thinks anyone who believes that she is propagating a certain image of the black woman is just a jealous hater.
It’s very sad when celebrities fail to take social responsibility and ignore the consequences of their actions. For decades black women’s bodies have been objectified and turned into a spectacle for mockery and entertainment.
Her purposeful ignorance towards the matter is more insulting than racist. But it’s not just Miley who’s taken a swing at black women.
Lily Allen was heavily criticized for her portrayal of black women as strippers who enjoy having champagne poured on their bodies, in her music video Hard out here. Although she said the video is meant to be satirical and mock the music industry, it still comes across as an insult to black women.
Obviously there are kinky black women out there, just as there are kinky white women, but it’s getting tiresome how many white starlets make use of black women’s bodies in their own climb to fame.
There’s more to a black woman than her ability to twerk and swing from a pole, and entertainment doesn’t only come in the form of sexual gestures and half naked women.
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It’s six months later but the imagery from that performance is indelibly engraved in many people’s minds. Unfortunately for most of us, I might add.
After her performance, Miley received a lot of criticism for her abrasive sexual gestures and the objectification of her black female dancers.
In case you missed it, Miley did not only appropriate the whole twerking thing from black dancers and musicians, but in the beginning of her VMA performance Miley spanks and bites the bum of one of the black dancers.
In the music video for her song We can’t stop, it’s the black girls who teach Miley how to twerk and are happy when she finally gets it right.
But according to Jezebel, Miley doesn’t care if there are people who think the way she uses black women is sexually offensive and racist.
She thinks anyone who believes that she is propagating a certain image of the black woman is just a jealous hater.
It’s very sad when celebrities fail to take social responsibility and ignore the consequences of their actions. For decades black women’s bodies have been objectified and turned into a spectacle for mockery and entertainment.
Her purposeful ignorance towards the matter is more insulting than racist. But it’s not just Miley who’s taken a swing at black women.
Lily Allen was heavily criticized for her portrayal of black women as strippers who enjoy having champagne poured on their bodies, in her music video Hard out here. Although she said the video is meant to be satirical and mock the music industry, it still comes across as an insult to black women.
Obviously there are kinky black women out there, just as there are kinky white women, but it’s getting tiresome how many white starlets make use of black women’s bodies in their own climb to fame.
There’s more to a black woman than her ability to twerk and swing from a pole, and entertainment doesn’t only come in the form of sexual gestures and half naked women.
Follow Women24 on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
