best tv mom EVER

seriously, claire huxtable is the best mom in tv history.

I <3 this show

I was trying to fall asleep last night but MisMis was being a fucking spaz attack crackhead and breaking dishes and trying to play with my necklaces on the jewelry box and then I tried to put the laundry basket over him like a cage but he just kept walking around and dragging it all over the floor and I couldn't get to sleep. oh, but that's not the point.

SO, I started watching this show on pbs called "African American Lives 2" which I had seen commercials for and looked v. good. basically, this dude henry gates, jr (he's an author, essayist, professor, etc of african american studies) is into geneology and in this show he tells 9 famous bps and bvs their ancestry (and his own), like tina turner, chris rock, morgan freeman, maya angelou, don cheadle (who I love love love), and some others I didn't know.

it is really really interesting, and the part that was on when I turned on was telling them how much european or white they had in them. it is actually a really surprising amount. most of them were between 15% and 20% white. like this one dude, tom joyner (a radio talk show host) is a bp but has grey-blue eyes, and henry gates shows him this picture of a white slave owner who is his great great great grandfather and he has the exact same eyes. no shit. and tom is like "this is crazy I've looked around everywhere in my family and nobody has these eyes" but this old dude has them. it's amazing.

and also henry gates breaks the myth that most bps have native american in them (which he says is something almost every bp family thinks that they have) and says that it is actually white.

and then he has all these peeps figure out exactly or close to what tribe in africa the famous bps belong to b/c for the first time they can trace it through dna (your father's father's father's father's father or your mother's mother's etc).

and then he tells this white chick that she has black in her and I think she has a really insightful reaction to that info:

at one point he even (almost) narrows it down to which slave ship his ancestors came from africa on. (he narrows it down to a potential 7 out of the 35 000 that came from africa to america)

and he also talks about how a lot of bps hear the story about slave capturing "oh your great great granpa was out on a picnic with his girlfriend when a white man jumped out of the bushes and threw a net over them" and says that it actually was africans warring with africans and capturing them b/c it was a huge huge trade in the 1600s and 1700s. sad.

whoa I just wrote a lot but I was into it.

ny fashion week is too white

I've been noticing a trend lately in the fashion world and entertainment (tv shows, reality shows --esp model reality shows, magazines, etc) that seems to be that everything is swinging back to really skinny heroin-esque looking white people. not that I'm the biggest fan of tan athletic amazon women, but I don't really understand why, for example, vogue's may cover story last year that featured "the next generation of supermodels" were 9 white women (6 of them blonde) and one bv. and I know that white is the majority in the US blah blah but seriously, you can't fucking put an asian model in the top 10, or 2 bvs? oh I'm sorry, I didn't know only one black person is allowed per photo shoot.


(oh, and I found this pic highlighted like this, but it served to fulfill my purpose, so hayy)



I don't really know what started this trend, but I am not into it. jezebel.com seems to have noticed the same thing and they actually made a breakdown of the white to non-white ratio. it's really pathetic:




Here is also a rundown of a few of the top designers' models:

Erin Fetherston
Chanel Iman, black
Daul Kim, Asian
Han Jin, Asian
Hye Park, Asian
Total models of color: 4
Total white models: 23
Total models: 27

DKNY
Jourdan Dunn, black
Daniela Borges, Brazilian
Total models of color: 2
Total white models: 21
Total number of models: 23

Diane Von Furstenberg
Liya Kebede, black
Samira, black
Du Juan, Asian
Atong, black
Maria, Latina
Joan Smalls, black
Georgie, black
Lee, Asian
Alek Wek, black
Emma Pei, Asian
Camila Finn, Brazilian
Bruna Tenorio, Brazilian
Total models of color: 12
Total white models: 31
Total number of models: 43

Calvin Klein
Liya Kebede, black
Total models of color: 1
Total white models: 20
Total number of models: 21

Donna Karan
Chanel Iman, black
Total models of color: 1
Total white models: 22
Total number of models: 23

Jill Stuart
Total models of color: 0
Total white models: 20
Total number of models: 20

Jovovich-Hawk
Total models of color: 0
Total white models: 3
Total models: 3

Luca Luca
Atong, black
Total models of color: 1
Total white models: 19
Total models: 20

Tracy Reese
Sasha Gaye-Hunt, black
Dahlia, black
Hollis Wakeema, black
Sonny, Asian
Mo Wandan, Asian
Lily, black
Britnee Nicol, black
Cecilia Mendez, Argentine
Total models of color: 8
Total white: 15
Total: 23

Zac Posen
Du Juan, Asian
Liya Kebede, black
Jourdan Dunn, black
Chanel Iman, black
Han Jin, Asian
Bruna Tenorio, Brazilian
Total models of color: 6
Total white: 40
Total: 46


also, I have a sneaking suspicion that prada refuses to use non-whiteys, and that makes me not like them, but I love prada and don't want to not like it. fuck.