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    Nauseating garbage from the fraud Archived Message

    Posted by Raskolnikov on August 16, 2020, 9:37 am

    which uses id. pol. to err "whitewash" Naomi Campbell; a more perfect personification of everything that is wrong with 20th-21st century capitalism you would be hard pressed to find but this gushing fan-girl garbage makes her out as some kind of hero.

    The byline is "Yomi Adegoke" who's potted bio on the fraudian says "Yomi Adegoke is a journalist who writes about race, feminism, popular culture and how they intersect, as well as class and politics. " but if you scan her articles a lot of them seem to be about garbage TV and there's one titled "How Kate Moss Close could pave the way to a better world " about naming streets after women saving the world or something.

    The world’s greatest supermodel has been a fearless champion of diversity in fashion for decades. Now she’s relishing a moment of change

    An upside of our new Zoom-operated civilisation is supposed to be the abolishment of lateness. It’s harder to justify when the commute is from your bed to the living room. Unless you’re Naomi Campbell, of course. Twenty minutes into waiting for her to join our call, a message pops up from a representative apologising that she’d be a few minutes late. Another 20 minutes and I’m told she’s “just working out how to sign in”. I’ve been expecting the wait, comparatively tame compared to the tales of four-hour stake-outs I’d heard from other journalists.

    This is all presented as somehow exciting instead of hugely entitled rudeness from a ####ing clothes horse.

    And then, suddenly, she enters, and the atmosphere changes even in a virtual room, international accent first and then the face that launched 1,000 covers; skin dewy and glowy, goddess-like; impossibly high cheekbones and honey-blonde highlights. “Hi,” she says coyly. Polite but unapologetic. It’s fascinating to witness in real time this acute awareness of her own mythology; an unspoken agreement with anyone she encounters that she will be operating according to her own time zone.

    Jesus, Mary and Joseph. This is like some high-school fan letter. It goes on:

    It’s difficult to conceive of a time Naomi Campbell was ever “from ends”, occupying a level of fame often reserved for black American juggernauts: Michelle Obama, Serena Williams, Oprah Winfrey. She’s easily the most famous black person in Britain and one of the most famous people in the world full-stop – meeting her feels like facing the final boss at the end of the Black Girl Magic hashtag. When I met her at the Fashion for Relief launch last year, people actually congratulated me.

    Those people are ####ing idiots then.

    Racialised sidelining would be a theme in her early career, though her impact on the fashion world was near instant. Naomi started modelling at 15, in 1986, and covered British Elle just before her 16th birthday. Two years later, she became French Vogue’s first black cover girl. By 1989, two more covers: the first British black model to front British Vogue, and the first black model to cover US Vogue’s most distinguished edition of the year, the September issue. In January 1990, she was declared “the reigning megamodel of them all” by Interview magazine.

    So she was sidelined because of racism but appeared on the covers of all the major magazines by the time she was 16. That doesn't seem to add up, no?

    These career highlights were not without difficulty. In a recent Woman’s Hour interview, she recalled crying at the sight of her 1988 Vogue Italia cover because of her “grey” makeup. The makeup artist didn’t have her shade, he said, because he didn’t know she was black.

    Ahh the pains of real struggle. The ghost of Steve Biko should take note; I bet you never had to deal with the wrong shade of make up.

    Astonishing garbage even for the fraudian.

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