Now we know what color white people are. They are “cream” colored. Not “beige,” not “pinky white,” not “pinkish beige.” The lovely color of cream.
Here’s Mrs. Obama at the state dinner. Here’s the AP’s description:
First lady Michelle Obama chose to wear a gleaming silver-sequined, flesh-colored gown Tuesday night to the first state dinner held by her husband’s administration.
Funny because that gown is showing a lot of Mrs. Obama’s flesh, and it doesn’t appear to be the same color as the gown.
Here’s the AP’s revised version:
First lady Michelle Obama chose to wear a gleaming silver-sequined, cream-colored gown Tuesday night to the first state dinner held by her husband’s administration.
Just gotta say that Samantha Critchell must be colorblind. Heh. Because if I poured cream that color into my coffee, I’d have to go back to the store.
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Really, AP? I’ve got nothing…
Yah – whenever I see the term “flesh colored” – I think – who’s flesh? All the online dictionaries I checked define it in the white privilege manner.
I have always hated the word and seeing used in that way — ick. It never conjured up images of beige or even cocoa or caramel; just a nasty red from stewing beef.
Wait. I’m stupid too. I wonder if I could get a job with the associated press.
hey maybe the AP writer’s not stupid and racist but clever and racist? Getting in a little jab – she’s just not flesh-colored
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I read decorating blogs and they do this all the time, they complain about “flesh colored paint” and by that they mean pinky beige. If you call them on it you are being too “PC”.
Ashamed to say it never occurred to me to think that “flesh” is not an appropriate color name!!! Of *course* flesh comes in multiple tones.
However I would not call that dress flesh *or* cream color. Maybe beige or some kind of coffee-related word?
It looks like chai tea, heavy on the milk, to me. Thanks for this post.
That’s terrible – I honestly thought the word “flesh-colored” had gone out of use in the U.S. some 20-30 years ago. Crayons were renamed “peach”, etc. Recently here in Japan they have renamed all the crayons, etc., which were “flesh-color”, “pale orange”. I have no idea if this color is different from the color that was formerly called “flesh-color” in the U.S., but in any case it is a similar beigish or peachish color, not really what we would call a pale orange in English. It was great that Japan got rid of the term “flesh-color”, at least in their crayons, and very disheartening to hear it used again in the U.S. – crazy, in fact, in this context. I would tend to think the writer used it maliciously.