{"id":1377,"date":"2019-12-15T17:22:22","date_gmt":"2019-12-15T22:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/?page_id=1377"},"modified":"2019-12-17T22:11:05","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T03:11:05","slug":"message-the-song-is-conveying","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/message-the-song-is-conveying\/","title":{"rendered":"Message the song is conveying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1467\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/442\/2019\/12\/Untitled-presentation-5-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"469\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/442\/2019\/12\/Untitled-presentation-5-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/442\/2019\/12\/Untitled-presentation-5-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/442\/2019\/12\/Untitled-presentation-5-700x394.png 700w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/442\/2019\/12\/Untitled-presentation-5.png 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 469px) 100vw, 469px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;Brown Skin Girl&#8221; is unapologetically and fearlessly Black, hitting on a topic that society still hesitates to approach because of how, well, complicated the topic is. Colorism is a deeply rooted issue in the Black community that goes back to slavery when plantation owners separated worked by skin tone between the fields and the house. Fast forward more than 400 years, and colorism is still alive and well. We&#8217;re living in an era where makeup companies are still releasing <\/span><a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.insider.com\/beauty-brands-called-out-for-not-enough-foundation-shades-2018-7\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">foundation lines with only two shades of brown<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and major fashion companies are allegedly only using darker skin girls after they get called out for not doing it.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/quote\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1697 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/442\/2019\/12\/Screenshot-2019-12-17-at-2.34.33-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"124\" height=\"35\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Brown Skin Girl&#8221; is unapologetically and fearlessly Black, hitting on a topic that society still hesitates to approach because of how, well, complicated the topic is. Colorism is a deeply rooted issue in the Black community that goes back to slavery when plantation owners separated worked by skin tone between the fields and the house. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3435,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1377","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","has-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3435"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1377"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2023,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1377\/revisions\/2023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/afr111-f19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}