Tuesday, March 13, 2007

America's Next Top...Racist?

So last season of America's Next Top Model... The final comes along, everyone in the office is rooting for blonde, fun Joanni - and then Danielle wins, the black girl. For no reason whatsoever. Except maybe one...
You see, the winners always seem to be from an ethnic background - which is possibly not a coincidence, since Tyra has a huge say on the outcome of the show. Tyra, who had an under-privileged upbringing and now fights every black girl's corner...
And this season, what do we have? A really really WEAK black girl called Jaeda, who hates her new Halle Berry haircut, and has moaned NON-STOP. She's been in the 'bottom 2' about 4 times now - but each time she somehow manages to scrape through - when she's up against a white girl.
Last night, it came down to black Eugena and white Brooke. Hey, guess who went? Eugena, the one who is unbelievably weak, or Brooke the one with huge potential? Yep, you're totally right.
On her way out, Brooke said 'I can't believe I missed my graduation ceremony for this, and Tyra gave her one of her usual patronising dressing-downs ('honey, hundreds of girls would love to be in your position'). But no, Brooke, you're right - you probably were wasting your time all along...
As for the rest of the season - I think Caridee should win - she is a really strong contendor. Will be interesting to see what happens. She's blonde and white.
I love the format of America's Next Top Model, but Tyra, seriously, please just go girl.
Is this post too controversial???

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Nah, not too controversial, M. I always wondered why they bother having white girls since they all seem to gravitate to the "exotic" looks, which is fine. But don't have a competition then is that's all they are really looking for. Although that blind girl from wasn't it season one got really close...still few and farrrrr between.

Mart said...

Joanni so should have won last year. At this rate, Caridee should win this year (we're only on season seven over here, i think America's on season eight - so no spoilers please!), but i wonder if tyra will pull a ratings-grabbing twist and have crappy old jaeda triumph.