2. Black Beauty Standards with Xosha Roquemore

The Secret Lives of Black Women

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Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

What happens when the standard of black beauty isn’t quite black? Charla and Lauren discuss how social media has affected their journey to self love. Xosha Roquemore (Precious, The Mindy Project) highlights her personal experiences online in this hilarious and thoughtful conversation centered on what it means to be beautiful in a culture that can sometimes ignore true #blackgirlmagic. You can find more about The SLBW at https://www.instagram.com/theslbw/ Follow SLBW on Twitter and Instagram @theslbw Find Xosha Roquemore on Twitter @XoshaRockstar and on Instagram @xoshroq This episode is sponsored by HBO - A Black Lady Sketch Show.

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0:00.0	Instagram wants me dead. It's trying to kill me. It's horrible. Like you're on it constantly?
0:05.5	Not even like that, just like, it's mean. It makes me compare myself to people.
0:11.0	Yeah, yeah, yeah. I have a baby and a child's father who's famous and like I mean it gets
0:16.0	intense it gets intense you know looking at the little girls and I'm not sexy or looking at the bee and I'm not
0:24.8	fun I'm not nothing on there but I'm everything in real life and when I'm
0:30.1	around the same exact people in real life I don't feel those things.
0:34.0	Yeah.
0:35.0	And now it's getting even worse because now the standard of black beauty is a white woman.
0:40.0	It's not a white woman.
0:41.0	I'm pretending to be black.
0:42.0	My life just got me worse.
0:44.0	Yeah.
0:45.0	I don't know why my mind just got blown.
0:47.0	No.
0:48.0	It should have been a show.
0:49.0	Oh shit, the representation of black beauty is not. It's not anymore.
0:54.0	I want to take a picture of Dosa right now
0:57.0	because she looks like a rapper to me.
0:59.0	Oh, thank you.
1:00.0	I want to put that on my insta man.
1:02.0	That's how I be trying to feel.
1:03.0	You do look like you are repping Hot Girl Summer.
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