I believe y’all are misinterpreting what I’m trying to say… I understand those isms may not have been labeled at that particular time although they existed. I’m just saying it wasn’t this major complain about those isms.
for example
back in the early 90s this new group called EnVogue set the industry on fire, and as far as the topic goes all of the young ladies in the group fit every ism that’s been spewed in recent time (light skin, wavy / loose hair, non-west african / euro facial features)
**my point**
I don’t remember any black woman (note: at this time it wasnt many non-ADOS/FBA) complaining or giving excuses that the only reason they are blowing up the industry was because of their phenotype
Any community in Africa, has women that look like these without being mixed race.
I'm from a village in Africa. Zero white people, and we have all types of light-skinned people. This "European features" thing is just pure ignorance. Y'all let white people take everything even what's ours.
A beautiful woman is a beautiful woman. Slender and thin-faced doesn't equal white! The African gene pool is unmatched and can make pretty much all types of looks. Yes, white folks mostly identify with black women who happen to have features that are akin to theirs, this doesn't make the women white adjacent.
By the way, judging what stupid degerate celebrities do as some type of standard is foolish.
Look at brehs like Denzel, LeBron, etc.
"To define the beautiful is to misunderstand it" Charles Robert Anon