You know claw3 it is NOT racist to use White as a descriptive word. Yes I too like white tea. What I can't understand is the fact that you seem to refuse to debate and instead keep stating the same thing over and over without any expansion.
As a young woman growing I could never find anything that talked about my skincare/hair etc. Even buying products for myself involved travelling to specific shops. To discover magazines called Black Beauty was an absolute joy to me because I knew by the title that this magazine was specifically for me and people who looked like me. I don't consider myself dim etc but I knew from years of looking through magazines that I would not be represented by them. When I buy Marie Claire (and I like Marie Claire) I'm saddened but not surprised to see myself unrepresented. I think it speaks volumes that Vogue had to advertise the fact that they were only using black models (despite the many white models still used in the advertisements). It also spoke volumes that Italian Vogue was warned that it would not sell enough copies because "there is no market for that sort of thing".
And I feel the need to stop myself from doing what others have done adequately (and some more than adequately) before me.
Yes you can use the word WHITE descriptively. It is NOT a racist thing. BUT if you follow through the logic of the arguments (note I said argument in its proper definition not quarrel) that you have asked for it has been pointed out that it is an UNNECESSARY description as the Mainstream media is targetted towards a WHITE audience.
YES it is important that BLACK magazines etc state that they are catering to a BLACK audience just as (and I repeat the examples from further down the thread) FISHERMAN weekly is catering to people who fish. If you have "black hair" (and I know several white women who do) and you want to know how to care for it you will go for the SPECIALIST magazine. The NATURAL SKINTONE colours offered in freebies offered in the mainstream magazines doesn't really cut it for me. My skin is infinitely darker.
And here I go ad nauseum. So let me be direct and answer your OP (before I bore myself)
By claw3 on Mon 26-Jan-09 09:55:25
Anyhow at news stand there was a section which had black magazines ie black hair, black beauty, black music etc, etc. Ds asked me why do black people have their own mags and would it be racist if white people had their own magazines ie white hair, white beauty etc etc.
Your thoughts, would it??
No it would not be racist but it would be pointless. And those (and the things I've said previously) are my thoughts!