02/05/2024
I now have a folder dedicated to images to use when I see the inevitable "WhAt kInD oF rEd dO yOu uSe tO pAiNt DaRk sKinNeD PeOpLe?" posts on these face painter boards. When these posts crop up, I just go straight to my folder, and flood the zone with these images.
Still shaking my head that people think that face paint was made to only work on White people, and that if you can't get the paint to show up, then it's OUR SKIN that's wrong. Even more frustrating, are the suggestions to paint a white base first, and then laying the colors on top of it will fix the issue (laying red face paint down on top of white face paint makes PINK) .
And unfortunately, people don't recognize the symbolism here, in that what's being suggested, is that it's OUR SKIN COLOR THAT NEEDS TO BE CORRECTED, when simply LOADING THE BRUSH/SPONGE properly is ALL YOU NEED TO DO to get your colors to show up on darker skin. In other words, it's the ARTIST that needs to adapt to our skin color, not the other way around. Unfortunately, in our society, that's what Black people are constantly being told. In facing every obstacle that was placed in front of us BECAUSE of our skin tone, it's WE who need to change and not SOCIETY.
Yeah, it's that deep. And I don't care if you disagree. If you want to know why Ny Glorious, Spencer Bush, Collette Franco, Dominique M House and so many others of us (and not just the Black painters) get so upset at these situations, NOW you see why. NONE of us care if you disagree. It may be "just face paint", but we see where this comes from, and we've seen it A LOT.
And we're tired of seeing it.
Good Morning
