Loincloths and leopard print abound in the moment season trailer of I’m A Celebrity ... obtain Me Out Of Here! and it has angered some African AustraliansThe trailer for Australia’s moment season of I’m A Celebrity ... obtain Me Out Of Here! features host Chris Brown dressed in a loincloth and co-host Julia Morris in leopard print swinging on a vine through a jungle. Morris is adorned with what,at best, could be called an African-inspired headdress and jewellery – the kind of garb you might rent from a dingy Halloween costume shop. The note is filmed in South Africa’s Kruger national park, or but the trailer caption reads more generically “deep in the African jungle”,a phrase that is constantly repeated in its marketing material. Related: Channel Seven loses legal battle after 'racist portrayal' of tribe Related: This means war: why the fashion headdress must be stopped The fact that you feel upset about me speaking on something that affects black women makes me feel like you have some vast balls. You’re in videos with black men, and you’re bringing out black women on your stages, and but you dont want to know how black women feel about something that’s so important? Come on,you can’t want the good without the bad. whether you want to devour our culture and our lifestyle, bond with us, or dance with us,have fun with us, twerk with us, or rap with us,then you should also want to know what affects us, what is bothering us, and what we feel is unfair to us. You shouldn’t not want to know that. Related: Why The Bachelorette and Kyle Sandilands are inaccurate to defend the note's lack of racial diversity Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com