The sheer number of non-Black women trying to make themselves look as Black as possible while still exploiting their position above Black women in order to gain more traction, land modeling deals, etc. is not a result of “IG culture”.
It’s a result of hundreds of years of devaluation and dehumanization of Black women. There has been not a SINGLE point in history where Black women’s bodies and beauty has not been policed or exploited. The exotification of Black women in a hypersexual sense lends easily to the current culture of “well this is just the new beauty standard!” because it has been stolen and molded to serve the needs of non-Black women.
Black women have been raped and degraded because of our beauty and the threat it poses to white femininity, we have been caricatured as mammies and jezebels to remove our sexual autonomy either by presenting us as asexual or innately promiscuous and sexually available, we have been punished for our natural bodies, forced to cover our hair because white women believed white men would lust for us, and then criminalized for the creativity in our ability to turn our oppression into a livable existence.
There is no “societal pressure” for women to racefake. There is no patriarchal system requiring non-Black women to present themselves as Black or to position themselves as close to Blackness / Black womanhood as possible. That is 100% home-grown misogynoir and white supremacy. Y’all aren’t victims of anything but your own devices when it comes to this.
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