Yesterday dencia tweeted
Lupiter later calls Dencia out on during her Black Women in Hollywood Luncheon speech.The Academy Award nominee was given the Best Breakthrough Performance
Award for her role in “12 Years a Slave” at Essence’s 7th annual
Black Women in Hollywood Luncheon Thursday. Nyong’o accepted the award with an impassioned speech about mainstream beauty and stands for Black is Beautiful. Calling Dencia out Lupita Nyong'o that was so not cool. Why do some sistas like to validate their self worth by bashing another?
Wether you are as black as Lupita Nyang'o or as light skin as Dencia, and or olive skin (Bi-racial) like Halle Barry; your self worth is viewed and talked about by your skin color. People tend to see the outer appearance instead of who such individuals really are.
Famous talented actresses who have been in the game like Megan Good, Gabrielle Union, Kerry Washington, Nia Long, etc would not get the Dencia, Lupta and Halle Berry's shine no matter how good of an actress they are because "In-between doesn't sell"...BROWN SKIN DOESN'T SELL. Unless you do scandalous things or scandalous shows like Scandal, Being Mary Jane and other show that portrays a black woman like a low self-esteem crazy batty bad.
Someone's response to Lupita's speech
Congrats
on your growing success... I've been coming across blogs regarding your
name in Lupita's mouth and though I love reading blogs for the funny
ignorant comments without making any comments of my own. I couldn't help
but notice that not one person has pinpoint Lupita's marginal lack of
professionalism in the beginning of her speech... So I've felt the need
to add my own two-cents to the blog
comment section; I thought it would be worthwhile to share the opinion I
posted on some blogs with you. I'm not on team Lupita or team Dencia;
however I do believe an educated person should always take a COMPLETE
professional approach to make a point without undermining another
person.
Regardless of everyone's opinion... Lupita is an
educated woman and could have been a bit more diplomatic regarding her
approach leading into her speech without indirectly or passively
vilifying another woman like herself as well as another African like
herself. Lupita did not have to mention Dencia's name or her product
brand to get the point across that black girls should love the skin
they’re in. We all have our own different hustle; despite whether the
next man thinks it’s the right hustle or not it is not for them to talk
down on or judge as long as it is honest. No matter what the public
opinion is, Dencia's hustle stems from hard, honest, legitimate work;
she has come a long way from nothing to something without harming anyone
to get there. It wasn’t right for Lupita to damper the light of another
black woman’s brand in order to make the light of her own brand shine
even brighter. Lupita could have easily replaced her wording by saying
the letter read…
“I was just about to buy cream to lighten my
skin when you appeared on the world map and saved me.” Rather than “I
was just about to buy Dencia’s Whitenicious cream to lighten my skin
when you appeared on the world map and saved me.”
There was no
need for Lupita to use the influence of her current popularity to knock
another hard working African woman’s hustle. She could have been just
as influential getting her point across without name dropping. At the
end of the day a girl who believes in Lupita’s words will be discouraged
from bleaching and a girl who has set her mind on it will still bleach
anyway regardless if she uses whitenicious to accomplish it or any of
the other million bleaching products out there that no one knows whom to
accuse for making it.
By singling out Dencia’s name and
product line during her speech, she subliminally turned Dencia into the
banner scapegoat for the entire beauty/lightening/toning/bleaching
cream industry. The Essence award was not the platform for one black
woman to debilitate another black woman’s personal hustle. Again, Lupita
could have gone about the same message in an ambassadorial approach and
still got all the raves for doing so without attempting to admonish
another black woman without reserve.
(Thanks for this piece Dayo)
Ashton Kutcher dated and married a more experienced and older woman; Demi Moore to better understand what women want and like. Now he has used his experience to find his happily ever after with Mila Kunis...Kudos to Demi Moore, she is a legend she taught Ashton well.
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