You read right. Black Hair Magazine ‘Accidentally’ Has White Cover Model. I’m not sure how you accidentally have a white cover model. I had to check the sources on that one. Publications have been featuring white women in fros and braids with little or no apologize at all. No big deal, I guess.
Tell me in the Comment Section: Is an apology necessary in this situation?
This maybe the first apology for featuring a non-black or mixed raced model.
Black Hair Magazine is an international bi-monthly publication for “the style conscious black woman,” per according to its Facebook page. December 2016/January 2017 issue cover features white model, Emily Bador with teased hair.
London-based model Emily Bador apologized to her fans and the readers of Blackhair via Instagram. See below. It seems that the publication was unaware until Bador issued an initial statement.
Later, BlackHair Magazine issued an apology on their Facebook page.
Dear Readers
This morning it was brought to our attention that the model gracing our December/January issue is not of black or mixed-race heritage. We were obviously not aware of this prior to selecting the image. We often ask PR companies/salons to submit images for the magazine, specifically stating that models must be Black or mixed race. We can only take their word for it, and of course, try to use our own judgment.
At Blackhair we continuously strive to celebrate black women in all our beautiful variation of skin hues and hair textures. We are keenly aware of how black women are underrepresented in the mainstream media and the last thing we want to do is add to our erasure. In this ever-changing world, race will surely become even more fluid and no doubt conversations around Black identity will continue to change, and we definitely welcome the dialogue.
Thank you to Emily Bador for bringing this to our attention, we really appreciate your honesty. And we also thank our dear readers for your continued support, we don’t take any of it for granted and therefore welcome any emails, messages, tweets you have on this subject and others.
Enjoy your Monday
Keysha
Blackhair Editor
Featured Image: Instagram
We can’t never have something and keep it and if we tell others it’s culture appropriation they turn around and call us racist or say we don’t own the style or words that we have created. I hate that we have created so much just to let the white man steal it. And if I sound racist get over it cause I’m unapologetically black and proud of it just so tired of others making claim on black culture
It’s OBVIOUS that they tried to pass her off as Black. This is one magazine I will NEVER purchase again!
Aren’t we all used to it by now? Egyptian images, Native American images, Biblical images, have all been mis-appropriated and revised for a long time now.
Most of us don’t even think twice when we see a “so called picture” of Jesus and he looks like one of the Bee Gees.
Don’t expect this to stop anytime soon. It wasn’t a mistake.
I agree this is nothing new and the only reason people making a big thing out of it is because the white girl said something if she didn’t no one would have known. Also I feared this might happen like as soon as we started to appreciate our skin and hair people of other race was gone jump on our bandwagon for the perks and benefits. Kim k braids and Miley twerking to a white bitch rapping that ain’t never been down. It’s like what ever we do they want to put they name on it. We can’t never have something and keep it and if we tell others it’s culture appropriation they turn around and call us racist or say we don’t own the style or words that we have created. For example slang was a language we used to keep shit from the whites because they raped ours out of us and they wanted to know what we were talking about so bad they created a dictionary. Now everyone is talking slang. Having a big butt is the thing for white girls now and having full lips. And the close too you go one Google and look up urban fashion it’s nothing but whites in hip-hop inspired clothing. It pisses me off