Elle's Cover Of Indian Actress Aishwayra Rai Bachchan Has Been Made To Look White

Dear AP fam,

I just woke up this morning to do my daily reading of my emails. When change.org sent me an alert on Elle's cover of Indian Actress,Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. The cover of her has been lighten so that when you first look at it she looks like a white red-haired woman. To me Aishwayra looks ugly on the cover. She herself is outraged and hate it. Elle is so disrespectful, unethical, hueist and racist to light skin brown skin actresses so they can be accepted by white mainstream society. Please help call them out on their bigotry and sign the petition or tweet their bigots. Are you tired of seeing your brown skin color being erased by some white corporations because they think it is easier to accept light skin as white? Do you think Elle needs a mental health evaluation too like the shooter and hater Loughner- (yeah a stretch but Elle is part of the hate and visious cycle, which they can get away it b/c their the media).

Talk to me peeps!

Here is change.org link to sign the petition-www.change.org/petitions/view/tell_elle_magazine_to_apologize_for_s...

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Permalink Reply by Fashionfreak on February 22, 2011 at 9:34pm

that lady is already darn near white looking in my opinion.

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Permalink Reply by Lloyd Lacy on February 24, 2011 at 1:09pm

Yes I do. Indian women (India) are a beautiful people. Most of them are of African/Aryan bloodline (Persian/Indo European) It makes me sick to always see them being shown as white when they are not. 90% of India's population is not of the wealthy elite nor are they white. Now Northern Indians they are of Aryan blood and are Indo European. Some of India's black population is part Indo European.

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Permalink Reply by AfroCuban on February 24, 2011 at 4:28pm

High Key lighting makes everyone pale. There are alot of half-black/half-white actors and actress that match up with the white actors color-wise with the same lighting. To me, it's the incompetence or racism of the lighting director and casting director. A good LD or CD will be able to light everyone just great, showing their natural color and adding a human depth to the film/ad/show by doing so.

Oprah said she fired her LD because "he could light black people". Meaning, I think, that he didn't give a damn and lit the set for pale skin (which puts brown folks in shadow). I read, too, that the inventor of the camera, or of film, designed it specifically to light whites without them looking like ghosts.

It happens so often on magazine covers and photos that I think the people involved are snickering at an inside industry joke on how "white" they can light non-white people, and pat each other on the back while collecting their bets.