@geelphobic None of them are a stretch, and the pictures I posted are collages created by Pinterest users. But, to be fair, I couldโve done a better job of including more diversity.
Why do people try to use qaxootis who are sunburnt and malnourished to try to dunk on Somalis and our looks? Of course someone who suffered from war is going to look bad? We can all cherry pick plz
using selective imagery to portray Somali women, then generalizing an entire population as colorist, is intellectually dishonest. criticize colorism without cherrypicking representation to manufacture a stereotype about Somalis.
Of course she has Somali supermodel Iman on her header while denying Somalis their beauty. The contradiction is revealing. Anti-Somali hostility and the fetishization of Somali features are two sides of the same fixation: Somalis are simultaneously appropriated from, denied their
the irony of this oromo women asking for others to โdifferentiateโ them from somalis as she actively dresses as somalisโฆ
getting on her high horse to โlectureโ ppl when her community has these boys acting out but claim to be somalis to avoid heat & blame. ts pmo
because they want ai caricatures and barkhad abdi to be our only representation and theyโre mad we wonโt allow it. itโs why you see typical looking somalis being told they must be mixed or habesha. theyโre quiet when exaggerated racist memes of us go viral for a reason.