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Bessie Coleman
(1892-1926)

Known to an admiring public as “Queen Bess,” Bessie Coleman was the first black woman ever to fly an airplane and the first African American to earn an international pilot’s license. During her brief yet distinguished career as a performance flier, she appeared at air shows and exhibitions across the United States, earning wide recognition for her aerial skill, her dramatic flair and her tenacity. But the thrill of stunt flying and the admiration of cheering crowds were only part of Coleman’s dream. Forced for a time to work as a laundress and manicurist to make ends meet, Coleman never lost sight of her childhood vow to one day “amount to something.”

Why is this even a shocker. They don’t want women of colour on their covers because they probably believe that “the masses” don’t want to see it. SMH

So, whats new?

This is not news to anyone. They don’t think that black people exist so why include them n their white cover.

stop buying nearly all magazines along time ago. I only look at em at the hair salon or the doc office lol…..

and i’m not surprised…infact, i’m surprised ur surprised

Then they get mad when we get our own sh-t!!

this is Barak Obama’s post racial America.
Dolphin Olympics

there you can have all the fun in the world with no discrimination in sight.

As soon as i see a mag or anything with all white .. i skip over that mess if it aint no black in it.. im out!!

Not surprising, but ridiculous nonetheless. All that whiteness on the cover is blinding me. VF will not see a dime from me. NEXT!

No surprise here, disappointment but no surprise…

why do you care?

People still buy magazines?

@B, please rewrite that mumbo jumbo

Why do i care.. Gotdammit i dont care thats why i wont buy it.. mf-ers kill me with this racist crap.. I WONT BUT THE SH-T.. so what!!

did we forget it is called vanity FAIR
ummm read between the lines
enough said

I don’t buy any magazines anymore. I just go on the internet.

WHO GIVES SH’T WHO GIVES F’CK ABOUT WHITE BULLSH’T!???

WHo cares, Vanity Fair has never seen my Black dollars

damn shame…

A couple of things. Seems to me they just had your boy, Tiger, on the cover. Also, Ebony, Jet, Essence sure don’t have alot of white coverage. And, to my knowledge, those are the big black three. So, get over it. What a waste of time. Never enough. Never enough. Never enough. That is the underlying mantra..

It’s a WHITE magazine featuring WHITE people. Why do you care?

sO NOW WHAT NEED TO HAPPEN IS ESSENCE NEEDS TO GET A YOUNG HOLLYWOOD EDITION WITH ALL BLACKS ON THE COVER TO COMPETE LETS SEE WHO CAN SELL THE MOST MAGAZINES
ANY BETS…ANYBODY…BETS

Y ARE THEY NOT BANKABLE BECAUSE WE HAVE LET WHITE PEOPLE TELL US FOR FAR TO LONG WHAT THE STANDards are OR WHAT THEY SHOULD BE. tHI IS COMING TO AN END REAL SOON THATS WHY THE COVER HAS ALL WHITE GIRLS ON SHOCK AND AW ALL WAYS SELLS

THIS CAUSE A STIR WITH AMERICANS WE LIKE CONTROVERSY THATS WHAT SELLS AMERICA LIKE WARS.

We can’t get on Vanity, Robin Thicke can’t get on Vibe. DEAL!

SUE

2/2/10, 13:19:pm

Y ARE THEY NOT BANKABLE BECAUSE WE HAVE LET WHITE PEOPLE TELL US FOR FAR TO LONG WHAT THE STANDards are OR WHAT THEY SHOULD BE. tHI IS COMING TO AN END REAL SOON THATS WHY THE COVER HAS ALL WHITE GIRLS ON SHOCK AND AW ALL WAYS SELLS
________________________________________________They’e not bankable because we’re less than 20% of the total population and the rest of the country who is the MAJORITY is who’s money their after. The people who want to see the actresses that are on the cover are the MAJORITY and they spend major dollars on their films.

all I have to say is:

KEKE PALMER!!!!
KEKE PALMER!!!

K E K E P A L M E RRRRRRR!!!!
She’s up and coming, bankable, young, writes her own material for her show…

Is this really shocking?

FICK VANITY FAIR WHO CARES I WILL NOT BUY THEIR SHYT THEY DO NOT KNOW TALENT ANYWAY

Full of vanity and really FAIR indeed! No, not fair vs unfair…FAIR as in skin color!

After 37 years of living this ish ain’t new!!! Who are those b itches anyways? SMMFH

I’m not gonna hold my breath on a native american actress on Vanity Fair MF’n magazine, it doesnt even feature white people if they dont have alabaster skin that goes from pink to white! Tell ya what, I will look for a colorful cover of VF featuring beautiful women of all races when I see a Japanese Cowboy!

Stupid bougie-bit(#es getting mad for vanity fair not representing them. You don’t represent black people eiether, so why do you care?

My cover would have:
Keke Palmer
meagan good
zoe kravitz
Jurnee Smollett
zoe saldana
Naturi Naughton
Camille Winbush
Gabourey Sidibe
Raven-Symoné
Kyla Pratt

CHEW ON THIS:

Whats the big deal? When white folks dont want you in their club why do black people always get mad???!!! If you were to force your way into their club of white girl hollywood actress group, what makes you think that they ”really” want black or mestiza latinas in their group, to be there all of a sudden??!!! Thats what the problem is. If we focused more on building up our groups and not being jealous when they ( white people)can form functioning unions that progress their common causes, then we would be in a much better position, I believe this is true despite the odds pitted against people of color (any color with melanin) but we too concerned with what they doing so we can copy it and show how equal we are. We dont have to prove anything to mainstream dominant ”white”society. Why do we need a pat on the back, and an invite for coffee??? On the real we need to work on communating with eachother productively, repairing the family units, repairing the state of the black male in the family unit-from the womb to the tomb, and then finally creating a healthy family unit who is equipped with connecting with others in our communities so that we can change the future with productivity and progressive concepts and projects for people of color to focus on! Until that day comes, why even waste breath on being excluded from a magazine cover?? We have experienced far worse-check the docu film farewell uncle tom 1970′s and also check out cosmic slop Hbo film 1990′s and Kiriku!! WAKE UP (spike lee voice)!!!! We have to be proactive in our own units. We did this before we lost our history and cultures-the asians do it still and other ethnic groups have caught on. WAKE UP MELANated PEOPLE-Black BROWN YELLOW mestizo mulatto @## Hispanic peoples like:PUERTO RICANs Dominicans, Cubans, OR HAITIANs- YEAH YOU TOO I SEE YOU GETTING MAD ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SCREEN CUZ I CALLED YOU A NEGRO DESCENDENT- LATINOS USE THEIR COUNTRY OF ORIGIN AS A RACE BUT ITS A PLACE NOT A RACE!!! YOUR DNA PROVES OTHERWISE-SO I DARE YOU TO PROVE ME WRONG- Mexico and Peru are places not races….
but I digress

Vanity Fair will be obsolete in a few years. Infact, that magazine has always been lily white. The most black women I have seen on their cover has been singers.

Can we all just get along?

This is old news. All these pale faced white chicks are ugly!!! Half of them will not make it in Hollywood. Hollywood always put these pale faces on this high a** pedestal only to get disappointed big time in the end. They didn’t put any black females (or any person of color) in this issue b/c they would look more beautiful than these crack head looking pale faces. Big whoof!

black people are over.
Deal with it.

You know what’s funny? Over in Europe, I forget which country, dedicated an ENTIRE ISSUE of their Vogue magazine to black female entertainers and models?????? WTF???

Maybe Josephine Baker got it right….

The problem is this is a big deal. It shouldn’t be, really. Check out http://wp.me/pNowK-b. It’s my thoughts on the issue.

Who gives $hit! Gabby would have taken up half the page by herself.

I don’t wanna see Precious’ fatass on a in a glamor mag!

so what we dont have them in EBONY and JET magazine so it aint no different

Crickets….sing!!

Why is this even a shock? If you look at all the magazines that has “the most beautiful”, “the richest”, “the smartest”….there are no minorities on the covers or even in the article itself. Just don’t buy these magazines anymore….

I bet almost all of them are Jewish too. Jew’s run Hollyweird. I don’t have a problem with it but it is so blatant.

What I’m surprised at is YADADADI REELTALKER pretty much just gave everyone the solution the the problems plaguing the Black diaspora and no one, NO ONE, yet has gotten crunk about it.

So I will.

YADADADI REELTALKER, I hear you homie! Let the Revolution begin! Marcus Garvey all day….

DO you see white women on the cover of Ebony magazine? hell no!! I really dont see what the f–cking big deal is. You need to get over it.

Now that Obama’s president it gives these elitist types an excuse to do what they always wanted to do, and they don’t have to feel they’re being exclusionary or backward now that everything’s “equal” what w/Obama being president and all. (According to their thinking…) It just makes them more prone to being white-centric. Whatever, there are other mags that *do* spread the love toward people of all ethnicities. Those are the ones I buy. Ones that consistently report about the American demographic, which is diverse. VF is entitled to be boring. They remind me of a magazine from the 50s, or like they wish they were still in the 50s.

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