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Just recently, an Australian television show with a tradition of many years was singled out for allowing a group of white entertainers to perform a skit in blackface. Shortly after, the French Vogue also came under serious fire, as it had a model do the same for an entire spread. Now, it’s Tyra Banks’ turn to cause a stir, as she just had the remaining girls of America’s Next Top Model take part in a bi-racial photoshoot, MSNBC reports. The idea of the shoot might as well have been a good one, but whether it was also appropriate is an entirely different matter, media in the US is saying. According to the aforementioned publication, Tyra had the six girls pose in different outfits and makeup that transformed them into different races. The fact that the models in question seemed completely oblivious of the countries and race they were supposed to represent only made matters worse to the media, as it was interpreted as mockery at their expense. “During Wednesday nig!
ht’s ANTM episode on The CW, Banks took the remaining six young women of cycle 13 to Hawaii, where she took pictures of the models after they were transformed into different races. Tyra told bleached-blond Erin Wagner she was going to be ‘Tibetan, like the Dali Lama, and Egyptian;’ Southern...
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