Reality Bite Back Analysis

Reality Doesn’t Bite Back “Never dull your shine for someone else” is one of the many inspiring quotes by Tyra Banks. “Ghetto Bitches, China Dolls, and Cha Cha Divas” is an eye catching title from a short essay in Emerging 2e (originally in Jennifer Pozner’s book “Reality Bites Back”) that’s written by Jennifer Pozner. My view is that Tyra Banks isn’t exploiting the contestants’ races. There is no pleasing everyone so no matter what, someone will always be upset about something. Jennifer starts off with a disclaimer that she does respect Tyra for forming a consistently racial diverse cast and how Tyra makes sure the models have high self-esteem and know they’re gorgeous. She then dives right into bashing Tyra about how she makes it known …show more content…
She claims that America’s Next Top Model introduced the idea of the Angry Black Women, and that they edited the black models to seem crazed. The one became so famous for her ‘ghetto’ line that they brought her back for the views and money. Later having her lose since she didn’t have the image the sponsors of the show wanted with their winner. She then rants about how dressing up African Americans as animals humiliates and dehumanizes them like they’re savages. She ends her short essay mentioning how Tyra is a joke to many comedians and is only in the industry for money and …show more content…
I think that is narcissistic of the author to think everyone wants to be American. They should be even more proud of their heritage and culture. Also Tyra may not know every race in the world just by looking as someone, but everyone makes mistakes and it would be an impossible task to ask everyone to learn every culture and race on the earth and to be able to get that just from looking at someone is impossible. Jennifer also thinks its dehumanizing for African Americans to be dressed as animals on an African set when there were white people people also dressed as animals on the