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While Black

50: The Struggle and Success of a Black Model w/Mari

While Black

REVOLT

Self-improvement, Education

4.11.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

She's too curvy, he's too broad, they are too dark, can you give us more exotic....Black models hear it all and its all related to the accepted American beauty standard. It impacts you and its definitely impacting our brothers and sisters in the fashion and modeling industry. Today we sit down with Mari and learn much more about modeling: What makes it difficult for black men and women The crazy standard that are forced to adhere to How to get started in the industry What does the pay look like Watch out for the GWC's Make sure you go and follow her IG: @glamstar14 Don't forget to get social with While Black: IG: WHILE_BLACK; TWITTER @whileblackpc; FB @whileblackpodcast or email: whileblackpodcast@gmail.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

On BBC A

0:02.0

I am doing life a few more years means nothing to me

0:06.0

I'm pregnant

0:08.0

judges go easy I'm pregnant women

0:10.0

I've been old my electricity that's all

0:12.0

don't think I should even be in here.

0:14.0

A new series of the Baffa Award winning time.

0:18.0

You tell anyone and I mean anyone about me I will kill you starring Jody Whitaker tomorrow Lawrence and

0:26.0

Bella Ramsey time watch on BBC high player what does discrimination look like inside of the modeling industry for a black woman or for a black man?

0:36.0

When you're looking at castings or being submitted for castings, they'll have a breakdown of the

0:41.0

ethnicities that they want.

0:43.0

And sometimes you won't see African American.

0:45.8

Yeah.

0:46.8

So they can discriminate out the gate.

0:48.3

Yeah, exactly.

0:49.3

So you can discriminate so we don't discriminate.

0:51.1

So you don't even have an opportunity to submit or be submitted because you're not

0:54.9

wanted.

0:55.9

Because you'll hear amongst ourselves, like you'll hear that light is right, light is better, light is more attractive.

1:05.0

Oh, I have good hair, I have bad hair, you know, I mean that's a must ourselves.

1:11.0

That's not even the powers that be determining that. I believe it all stems back to like the slavery, slave mentality, mental slavery.

1:21.0

Mental slavery, mental slavery, mental slavery, mental slavery,

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