Twitter Is Accusing Kim Kardashian of Wearing Blackface in a Magazine Cover Shoot
Kim Kardashian is coming under fire for allegedly wearing blackface in a magazine shoot for 7Hollywood magazine.
Twitter is understandably mad that Kim frequently does this, and gets away with it each time.
Alright guys, the amount of crap going on in the world these past 24 hours is starting to astonish me. First, Camila Cabello was exposed by a Twitter user for having extremely racist and xenophobic content on her old Tumblr page. Then, Twitter users latched onto J.K. Rowling, author of THE Harry Potter series, for sympathizing with a transphobe. And now, Kim Kardashian sparked outrage on Twitter because she's out here posing in blackface...again (*sigh*). What the heck is going on?!?
Today, Kim shared a holiday-glam photoshoot that she did with 7Hollywood. If you don't know what magazine this is, don't worry-- I didn't either until this mess! 7Hollywood, according to their Instagram page, "is an L.A. based biannual fashion, celebrity and art magazine distributed worldwide." I'm guessing they want to boost their profile, which is why they decided to tap KKW for a controversial mag shoot full of blackface.
Take a look at these pics, and try to tell me that Kim isn't channel a black woman in these photos:
A post shared by Kim Kardashian West (@kimkardashian) on Dec 19, 2019 at 8:11am PST
As you can see, Kimmy's skin tone is looking much darker in this photoshoot than she actually is. Maybe it's a bad case of spray tan, or a bad case of photoshop? Whatever TF is, they can keep it! For the record, this is what Kim's skin tone looked like when she dressed up as Elle Woods for Halloween:
A post shared by Kim Kardashian West (@kimkardashian) on Oct 31, 2019 at 10:06am PDT
The difference is astonishing! And for the most part, Twitter completely agrees and is upset by the blatant darkening of Kim's skin:
The thing with Kim Kardashian and her family’s tireless history of cultural appropriation and Blackfishing is that she knows better. They know better. But they continue to do this because they know outrage sells. They’re able to keep their name relevant by doing things like THIS. https://t.co/rIE1fuYUXH
— Wanna (@WannasWorld) December 19, 2019
why you looking so black? huh pic.twitter.com/YQGxmH9Ooq
— gabi (@iamgabrielapaul) December 19, 2019
This is modern black face! This is retro black face! This is black face black face! Kim Kardashian wants to be black so bad, and her coon ass husband Kanye West wants to be orange. What a time to be alive! https://t.co/XGPslvpsBg
— Rita Duz It (@Marrita_CEO) December 19, 2019
GIRL WHAT IN THE BLACKFACE FUCK IS THIS???
I’M SO SICK OF YEWWW pic.twitter.com/haPnpnzn2d— ashley yates (@brownblaze) December 19, 2019
Y'all really finna let Kim Kardashian cosplay as a black woman for the rest of her life and not say nothing huh? pic.twitter.com/Ex3N3L6MzT
— Black Ginger Foutley (@some_girlll) December 19, 2019
How come nobody is talking about @KimKardashian’s black face 🥴 being married to a black man and having mixed babies doesn’t make you a black woman. Putting yourself in the front line of prison reform doesn’t give you a pass either. Thanks for coming to my pep talk
— Tima (@vientimz) December 19, 2019
Don't tell me shit about a sun tan fam. Kim Kardashian is in black face in that magazine.
— __lionbyke__ (@lionbyke) December 19, 2019
Kim Kardashian don't care about black women. You can be as loud and upset as you want. KARDASHIANS DON'T CARE ABOUT BLACK WOMEN. Their brand is able to exist by gettin access into black culture through black men who will defend them till the end cause they too hate black women
— That Loud Girl On Youtube (@AsToldByKenya) December 19, 2019
Something is deeply wrong with Kim Kardashian. Her obsession with Blackness is actually unhinged.
— No Quarter Will Be Given (@chaedria) December 19, 2019
Of course, this is just one of many blackface allegations Kim has come under fire for in the past. There was the backlash from Kim's KKW beauty ads, that one time she posted a much darker illustration of herself on Twitter, and the tangentially related time she came under fire for putting fulani braids in her hair. We were past due for another infraction.
In conclusion: I am disappointed, but not surprised.
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