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L'Oreal/Beyonce Whitewash {TMZ}
Aug 6th 2008 9:16PM the only people who evver get angrey over a black person changing their hair r skin is ANOTHER BLACK PERSON and it's ALWAYS the darker skin black person. it all goes back to the slave days of the drks skin black slaves were considered less and made to work outside in the hot fields being beaten and wearing ragged clothing whereas the lighter skin black slaves were given jobs inside the big house where they were dressed in nicer clothing sometimes even becoming closer to the slave owners and getting a few perks the field slaves did not get. That riff was made between black slaves among themselves and have carried on through history even into the year 2008. You never see a white person get angrry at another white person who decides to tan or kink up their hair. I never hear another white person call another white person a sell out. ONLY THE BLACK RACE DOES THAT and it needs to stop. People should be able to color their hair or maintain their hair in what ever fashion they want and it not be ANY DARN PERSON'S BUSINESS. It's my body, my hair, my eyes what ever and what I want it to look like is my business and I"M STILL A BLACK WOMAN you don't like it then it's your problem ....GO GET THERAPY FOR YOUR PROBLEM AND LEARN TO STOP HATING AND FOCUSING SO MUCH ON OTHER PEOPLE'S LIVES AND DESIRES.
L'Oreal/Beyonce Whitewash {TMZ}
Aug 6th 2008 8:42PM Let me correct the poster VVend. Beyounce lost weight for a movie in order to look and mimick the image of Dinah Ross. If you read the background on the movie auditions you would have read where Beyounce said she DOES NOT recconmend ANYONE to do the diet she put herself on in order to mimick the size she had to get down to in order to best portrat the image of what Dinah ross look like during the days to which the character in the movie and the broadway stage play is based on. After the movie was over Beyounce didn' put weight back on just because anything less than thick is unacceptable to black people ...oh my God where in the heck did you get that information from. People like you should be banned from spreading these lies about people you have never met or talked to in person to ask why the weight loss or why the weight gain and yet you come on these boards with your own crazy speculations and bold your words as if you speak with authority. Beyounce talked extensively on MANY MANY shows about the diet she went on in order to loose 20 pounds quickly she stated what she ate what her daily exercise routine was and she stated exactly why she chose to do it. Her reasons was NO DIFFERENT than what MANY MANY actors and actress do in order to portray a character. some actors and actresses have lost weight or gained weight to fit a character, some actresses have shaved bald and gained muscle to fit a character of a role (Demi Moore for example in GI JANE) Oprah Winfrey had to gain some extra weight when she got her first acting role in color purple because the role required an EVEN heavier woman than the heavy woman Oprah was at the time she was when she auditioned for tghe role. Janet Jackson gained 40 pounds to fit a character for a movie she auditioned for in order to better portray the character which rwas a heavy woman then she had to go on a strict diet and exercise regimien to loose over 50 pounds to best portray the image of Dorthy Dandridge which she lost the adutiton to Halle Berry. who they felt best fit the image appearance wise of the character in the movie. Actresses and actors who are SERIOUS about there role will study the role and make what ever changes neccassary that is withibn their limits and not life threatening or dangerous in order to best portray that role and that is ALL Beyounce did when choosing to loose tghe weight. Once the shooting of the movie was over the character in the movie she delivered so whe went off the diet because there was no need to continue that weight. there was no decision to gain weight back because anything less than thick is unacceptable to black people. she gain the weight back because she went off the diet and that type of diet once you go off it weight comes back faster and sometimes more than what you had before you began the diet. I ahve known Beyounce since she was a little girl and once she started entering her teen years she has ALWAYS been a thick girl and her body frame will always be thick in the hips and thighs and butt with tiny waist and she has taken lots of slack from people because of that and she is happy with her size....she doesn't need butt pads to look bigger. I saw her choice to loose weight in order to mimick a Dinah Ross look alike no different than Jennifer Hudson who had to actually gain weight for her role in the same movie in order to mimick the image of the character Jennifer Holiday made famous on Broadway. Jennier Hudson said it was actually just as hard for her to gain the weight and keep the weight on her during the year of the shooting than it was when she tried to loose weight at one time in her life. Women who change hair color wear weave or even use fade cream to even their skin tone or lighten their skin tone do it because they feel it enhances their appearnces and it simply makes them feel prettier. sometimes it has nothing to do with wanting to be another race or pass as another rac and celebrities who have the money to enhance their appearances to make them feel better about themselves will be the first to do it. Even Oprah is NOT the same shade of color she was when she was first discovered. take a look at Oprah winfrey during her earlier days of Chicago morning or her early days of the Oprah show or even during her days in color Purple. What Oprah looked liked then IS NOT what Oprah looks like now. The Oprah now is years of chemical peels skin lightening creams hair extentions (inher early years of becoming famous and wanting to now enhance her appearance and lots of maintenance on her hair nourishing it and straighting it, a change in makeup etc. and a life fulk of up and down yoyo weight loss and weight gain. But did Oprah make all those changes about herself because she felt she wants to more European or pass for something or be more acdceptable to a certain culture of people other than her own heritage of people? NO absolutely NOT.! all the changes Oprah has made in hewrself over the years is because it makes her feel better and beautiful and enhances her appearance ibn her eyes and that's her right to do it but it doesn't ake away fromt he fact she is PROUD to be a African American woman.......same as Beyounce is PROUD to be an african american woman and just as Oprah has been an excellent role model with her clean lifestyle and support of the black community by giving back Beyounce has also fill that role for young black girls and women. Instead of wasting your time tearing Beyounce down why don't you try to be an exampe of good human nature and post something positive readers can take away and actually use than can benefit them. Beyounce is doing that with her life maybe you should do the same. THINK ABOUT IT,
L'Oreal/Beyonce Whitewash {TMZ}
Aug 6th 2008 7:26PM Actually the second picture is more closer to Beyounce's skin tone thasn the first picture. I immediately recognized Beyounce in the second picture but had I not been told that the first picture was also Beyounce I would have not known because that first picture does not look like Beyounce because of tghe darker hair and darker skin. Beyounce has not had that hair color even when she was a teenager if her hair was ever that dark then it was in a movie or something and therefore to match the dark hair they gave her they also must have bronzed her skin with a bronzer. Trust me the second picture is closer to her skin tone and her current hair color. Also even though she wears many wigs on stage Beyounce DOES have very long thick hair that under contract she must maintain. Her Loreal contract says they can inspect her hair at any time for damage or cutting which could void that multi million dollar contract she has with them if her hair shows signs of damage, cutting or mistreatment.
Ryanair: Man forced to carry his wheelchair-bound wife onto plane after flight crew refuses to help {Gadling}
Jul 11th 2008 7:28AM There is alot missing from the story we don't know.
Ryanair: Man forced to carry his wheelchair-bound wife onto plane after flight crew refuses to help {Gadling}
Jul 9th 2008 8:27PM Shelley,
YES the airline is the party responsible for making sure disability passengers have access into and out of the airplane. I am sure once they realized the device was not there they tried to get one there but due to shortness of time was unable to do so and that is why they offered to rebook the pasenger on the next flight that was leaving 3 days later.
Even if RyanAir contracts an outside company to assist the needs of thier special passengers by providing them a ramp or lift or proving agents to assit in carrying Ryanair's special needs passengers into the airplane even if that contracted company never showed up or didn't have a lift available at the time the liability STILL remains with the airline.
I will say that RyanAir is right in having a policy that crew members are not allowed to lift passengers into or out of the airplane under normal circumstances most airlines have that policy and this policy should only be overruled in emergency situations such as an emergency evacution ONLY. This was not an emergency evacuation where it was a life or death situation so under normal situations the crew members are not allowed to do something like that because crew members are not trained in proper lifting of a passenger as not to cause injury to a passenger or injury to the crew member themselves that is why the policy is there.
The airlines reservations, customer service or whom ever is responsible to make sure the device was there is at fault.....even if it was a contracted company who dropped the ball in making sure the assistance device was at the aircraft waiting for the passenger the liabilty still goes back to the airlinebecause they all work for the airline. The crew members were right in following policy had they stepped in and lifted her and dropped her the pasenger would have had a big case not only just against the airline but also the crewmember because the crew member chose to break policy. I don't fault any passengers who did not offer to asssit carry the woman because passenger are not trained in passenger lifting and could injure the passenger and then they would be faced with a liability suit when all they were trying to do is be a good samaritan while also risking injury to themselves ......Passengers should NEVER be used in situations like that UNLESS again it is in a situation of an emergency evacuation ONLY. It was NOT an emergency evacuation so I don't think the passengers were wrong by not assisting but the passenger's were natually concerned about the couple's safety while watching that man carrying his wife when they probably wanted to help but know the liability of something like that. RyanAir's special handleing team or agents in charge of making sure the device was there are the ONLY ones at fault in this situation and should be the ONLY people having to answer to dropping the ball which now may cause Ryanair to having to answer to what appears to be a breach in that country's Disabilty ACT or Disiability Law.
Ryanair: Man forced to carry his wheelchair-bound wife onto plane after flight crew refuses to help {Gadling}
Jul 9th 2008 7:12PM Sophie,
You are wrong when you said the couple waited 3 days for the lift after ordering it over and over agin but it never showed up. that is totally wrong information. You need to go back and read the article again. The couple ticketed for a flight and when ticketing they requested the ambulift be there waiting for them to assit the wife into the aircraft. When they got there the lift was not there so they asked the flight attendants for help. Flight attendants are NOT allowed to step off the aircraft during passenger boarding for safety reasons of those passengers who are currently sitting on the aircraft. Also flight crews are not trained in the proper way of lifting passengers up and down stairs .
That is why there are assiting devices made for airplanes like an ambulift to assist the passenger who have disabilities or mobility problems. If the airline does not invest in assistance devices then they must train agents in proper lifting and handeling assistance of disability passengers into the airplane. After the device was not there and they obviiously have no trained agents to assit in lifting the flight needed to take off so the airline offered to rebook the couple on the next departing flight. The next departing flight was scheduled to leave 3 days later. The couple did not want to wait 3 days for a new flight and they probably felt they could not wait 3 days for the next flight so the husband decided he would carry the wife up the stairs himslef. That was a very very dangerous situation the husband put the wife in as well as himself. He could have fallen backwards or fallen forward and dropped the wife off his shoulder and back causing the wife to break her kneck and back even breaking his own back or kneck. No flight is worth taking that chance of putting yourself in that position. The husband should have NEVER decided to do that but the airline DOES share fault in putting the couple in that situation because the airline DOES have a responsiblity to assure that dissibilty passengers have a way of boarding the airplane. The airline MUST provide an assistance device or trained agents to assit disabilty passenger into the plane it's the law. Jefferey Wright is correct in saying what could the airline do at that point but offer to rebook the couple if there was no assistance device available and no trained agents available but passengers on the plane should NEVER EVER offer to assist lifting a passenger into the or out of the plane UNLESS it is in an event of a emergency evacuation ONLY and the passengers has agreed in advance to be an able body assistant.
The author of this article, Jeffery White is wrong in making such a broad statement when he says "Everybody kows that fllight crews these days will not help you to lift a bag into the overhead compartments, even if you are a 90 year old woman" I just hate when people write these articles when they notice an experience on a flight by one crew and make an inclusive statement to include ALL crews as if they have first hand knowledge of EVERY crew member in the industry. I am a flight attendant for one of the largest regional airline in the US and I am ALWAYS assisting my passengers with their bags, even offering every passenger a pillow and blanket at the start of the flight as well as asking each passenger if the cabin temperature is comfortable for them so once that flight starts they are feeling comfortable even before I start a beverage service. I consider that plane my house and gust that come on board always get great hospiltality when visiting my house and I actually tell my passengers that at the beginning when I welcome them onboard. The flight crew members are always the first to get a bad rap from bloggers and media people regardless of what the situation is. I wish some of these bloggers and media people would start to recognize the many dedicated, very customer service friendly flight crew members out there who work very hard to make their passengers feel RELAXED, RESPECTED and GREATLY APPRECIATED during their flight as much as they love to rag on the problems they find with the few bad apples that are out there because they have grown discouraged at always being vilianized. My employee file which is full of positive customer comments and appreciation letters are proof there are many caring and dedicated flight crew members out there who are not just going through the motions but actually giving GREAT customer care to their passengers.:)
United Airlines: Ticks on a plane! {Gadling}
Jul 9th 2008 6:08PM The tick probably jumped off one of the passengers pets brought on board ther plane on one of the flights that day. They will never be able to determine where the tick came from. But more than likely it was brought in by a pet that ticketed inside the cabin.
Tyra Banks' Protegee Distancing Herself From ANTM {oldstylelist}
Mar 6th 2007 10:36PM Exactly what do you mean MsCal by your statement "And her attitude is typical of her kind?" Exactly what kind are you refering to? I sure hope the vibe I got from that statement of yours is not what I interpret it to be because if it is then I would say a statement like that from you seems to be "typical of your kind" (people who love to stereotype and profile).
I actually didn't see any attitude or disrespect in the statement made by Dani. I think she is right to say she appreciates the opportunity ANTM gave her but the reality of the business is she must make it in the fashion world as a model on her OWN merits and not as a reality show winner. ANTM only gave her the platform (a contract with an agency, a professional portfolio shot by some of the worlds greatest, the discipline and drive needed to be able to get out there and hit the pavement everyday and one year of public appearances promoting the show ANTM and Covergirl cosmetics wich gets her face seen). Having the title of ANTM is not a guarentee she will be big in the modeling industry nor will having that title keep her in the industry. Many past models have said the exact same thing Dani has said (The first years's winner Adriene to this day is still saying having won ANTM did not help her in modeling the way she thought it would and Adriene commented she NEVER did not one show or any advertisement for Revlon who was that year's sponsor. Adriene stated the show does not always open the correct doors needed in order for the winner to have the longevity needed to remain in the modeling world because most designers and advertisers are not trusting of reality show made models. Adriene said exactly what Dani is saying.
Dani is simply saying if you want to just stay a reality tv star then that is great but her desire is to become a true runway and print model that is respected among the industry as a true model. she does not want to be stumped and hindered in the industry and not getting jobs because designers overlook her as "That girl who won that reality show". She is right to now want to add a little distance between "Danielle" the ANTM reality queen and "Dani" the model trying to gain the recognition and respect as a very good runway and print model so she can get some jobs. Why do you think her management changed her name. She has fulfilled her commitment to ANTM. Now it is time for her to move on and do what she needs to do in order not to just fade away in the dust as so many models do who try to have longevity in the fashion world. Tyra would applaud her for doing what she needs to do for herself because the show ANTM has etched it's place in reality tv the show is not going anywhere anytime soon but can Dani say the same thing? Kudos to you Dani! Do what you need to do for you and happy to know you will always give Tyra and the show their props for helping you get started.....but handle your business girl and make it happen for you.
