“Cute Little Black Girls are Everywhere” Campaign

Couldn’t have guessed a better time! Has the day finally come that young African American girls may now get the spotlight in the child modeling world? Apparently, talent and modeling agencies across the world are scrambling to find cute little “Obama-like” girls to add to their rosters of talent. Agencies are getting an influx of requests for African American girls to fill spots for advertising and marketing. The new era of beauty has arrived! It’s ridiculous that it took these two girls to catapult a need for adolescent black models, as if this is a brand new kind of child.

From New York Magazine online:

Madison Avenue is scrambling to adjust to a new era, when the most admired people in America are a black family. To reflect this reality, talent scouts are on the hunt for models who look like the Obama children, Sasha, 7, and Malia, 10. “People are looking for girls who resemble them,” says Charlie Winfield, the head booker at FunnyFace Today. Tali Lev, an agent with the Gilla Roos agency, keeps links to her “Sasha” and “Malia” model lists on her desktop for easy access. “Photographers even want them for their portfolios.” Marlene Wallach, president of Wilhelmina Kids & Teens, says the First Daughters are tough subjects to match. “It’s a very specific age and a very specific ethnicity, so there aren’t that many girls that would necessarily fit the bill.”

It’s almost weird and exploitive in a sense. The folks over at New York Magazine Online must have unconsciously ignored the site of little black girls across America, because the statement “…there aren’t many girls that would fit the bill” is ludicrous. So with that said, please support the “Little Black Girls Are Everywhere, You Idiots” campaign over at The Black Snob

Check out this CNN special….

Although the Obama girls are beautiful in their own right, people of African decent have many faces and complextions. I would hope that in this new wave of “love for people of color”, marketing campaigns will show diversity across all backgrounds and skin tones. We’ll see.

LITTLE GIRLS ACROSS THE NATION…..GET YOUR HUSTLE ON!

 

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