From Feministing
First, it was plantation weddings, now it’s “slave earrings.” Apparently making a mockery of slavery is so chic these days that Vogue Italia decided to highlight it as the newest fashion craze:
The ethinc re: slave earrings link
If the name brings to the mind the decorative traditions of the women of colour who were brought to the southern Unites States during the late 18th century, the latest interpretation is pure freedom
Pardon...WTF? Jeebus
Slavery in the world today
One of the characters in the film I have made for the BBC is Dalyn, a young girl from Cambodia, who after years of counselling and therapy was able and willing to talk to us about how she was sold into sexual slavery in a brothel when she was 12 years old.
Dalyn represents just one of the estimated 1.2 million children that the International Labour Organisation believes are trafficked every year.
There is nothing free nor chic about it...
What about Plantation weddings?
Your wedding day is supposed to be the happiest day of your life. So what if your happiness depends on exploiting the historical persecution of black people?
What next? A new wedding craze of having gladiators and animals slaughtered for good luck?
Sweet lord; we have republicans saying African Americans were better off under Southern slavery than they are today
Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann (R) has already made one slavery-related gaffe during her presidential campaign, signing a pledge produced by the Iowa FAMiLY LEADER that included language suggesting black children were better off under slavery than they are now. Bachmann offered half-hearted apology at the time, saying she had only signed the “candidate vow,” not the part that included slavery, and compared it to “economic enslavement” brought on by taxes.
When I look at the shit Marie Louise has to put up with every day...
We are not post racial.
Slavery wasn't chic then and it is not chic now; it was and is total humiliation.
11:38 AM PT: See Denig's comment
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