Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Books are my comfort food!

Just because you believe it, that does not make it true.

Hey hey, RFK, how many kids did you kill today?

The fight for our country is always worth it. ~Kamala Harris

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

Let there be snark.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

This country desperately needs a functioning fourth estate.

SCOTUS: It’s not “bribery” unless it comes from the Bribery region of France. Otherwise, it’s merely “sparkling malfeasance”.

Humiliatingly small and eclipsed by the derision of millions.

You’re just a puppy masquerading as an old coot.

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

“A king is only a king if we bow down.” – Rev. William Barber

Of course you can have champagne before noon. That’s why orange juice was invented.

This really is a full service blog.

If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

Come on, man.

Compromise? There is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist.

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  3. 3.

    mclaren

    Meyers at Pharyngula already roasted that idiot into a charcoal briquette. To their credit, Psychology Today seems to have pulled the offending blog post. A little late, but better than nothing.

    Even so…why does this clown still have a blog at Psychology Today? He should be gone. Toast. History. No mas.

  7. 7.

    Martin

    No Beyonce up there? For shame… And how about Salli Richardson-Whitfield? Dad is white, but we’ve got a geek audience here to cater to.

  12. 12.

    piratedan

    ty ABL, commenting as just another dude, admiration of the feminine form has never been about color of skin, its kind of like the relationship between beauty and art, I know it when I see it. When I was footloose and fancy free, I didn’t limit myself to only one shelf of the candy store when there was so much to experience. I should also add the disclaimer that not all beauty is evidenced at surface level, but for some of my gender, that lesson takes time to learn and understand (certainly true in my case).

  14. 14.

    Baron Jrod of Keeblershire

    Now now, what are you going to believe, a very serious and objective study or your lying eyes?

  15. 15.

    Uriel

    Oh yeah? So where’s…

    Oh, there’s Gabrielle Union and Aisha Tyler.

    Ok, guess I’m good with this.

  17. 17.

    General Stuck

    Can’t believe I forgot Lisa Bonet in the prior thread. And the massive crush I had on her once upon a time. Haven’t seen or heard from her in quite a while though.

  18. 18.

    sherifffruitfly

    Isn’t Olivia Wilde 1/2 black? I know she’s all kinds of MOTHERFUCKINGAWESOMEHOTSAUCE.

    Jessica Alba too?

    Or is this only for all-black hotties?

  20. 20.

    Ripley

    Saldana, Keys, Grier, Obama, wow. All is forgiven, ABL. I may even owe you change.

    Heh.

  21. 21.

    Uriel

    Wait wait wait- where’s Bianca Lawson? You gonna tell me Kendra the Vampire Slayer didn’t make the cut?!

    Man, this photo essay is bullshit! I’m out of here!

  22. 22.

    Joseph Nobles

    Is it wrong that I’m hearing “Dream Negress” set to the tune of “Dreamweaver”?

    No, it’s wrong to share it and get everybody hooked on it, right? Sorry… :D

  23. 23.

    Uriel

    @Chuck Butcher:

    I like women. Period.

    While l usually try to avoid the typical, vacuous internet high diving that seems to be so common now-a-days-

    Pretty much this.

  24. 24.

    Felanius Kootea (formerly Salt and freshly ground black people)

    @sherifffruitfly: I think Jessica Alba’s dad is Mexican-American. A number of the women pictured are biracial (Lisa Bonet, Halle Berry, Alicia Keys, Thandie Newton: part Zimbabwean, part British, Sade: part Nigerian, part British).

  25. 25.

    Warren Terra

    @sherifffruitfly:
    Glancing at her Wikipedia page, I don’t see any evidence that Wilde has any recent African heritage. Sadly, I did discover that she’s a Cockburn, the daughter of Andrew Cockburn. To be fair, I only really know the work of her uncle Alexander Cockburn (his brothers do sometimes work with him, but are perhaps more mainstream), but that’s one asshole no-one should have to be connected with, let alone related to. Her own politics aren’t as obviously repugnant as her uncle’s, at least according to her Wikipedia page.

  27. 27.

    Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason

    @piratedan: Or, as Slothrop said (Gravity’s Rainbow): It’s the age range and figure envelope.

    Which I’ve discovered to be highly variable as my own personal age range and figure envelope have changed over the years.

    Wait! I just saw #20 above. Pam Grier was in there? I’ll have to go look through them again.

  29. 29.

    Warren Terra

    @blackfrancis:
    But such a grim, poorly lighted, badly composed picture of ABL. That pic belongs on an employee ID card. The other, happier pictures she’s posted would have fit so much better.

  30. 30.

    Brad Hanon

    More fool I for starting off the let’s-objectify-black-women game, and also for not mentioning the incomparable Hazel Scott. First black woman to have her own TV show, got smeared as a communist for unusually stupid reasons, played piano like the Devil on fire, and (god forgive me) had a truly epic rack. I’m kinda shallow deep down, okay?

  33. 33.

    bryanD

    You left *OUT* Mannix’s secretary.

    You left *IN* Michelle Obama.

    (And where is the Huxtable’s elder white daughter? She was hot. But *odd* casting!)

  35. 35.

    piratedan

    @Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason: aye I grew up watching beautiful ladies like Diahann Carroll and Denise Nichols on my TV as a young lad and simply thought they were beautiful, period. We all have folks who sport beauty that speak to our inner ideal, I do believe that ideal is color blind or at least mine is.

  37. 37.

    RadioOne

    but how does this post address the (O’Reilly) factors complicating Newt Gingrich’s electability as President?

  39. 39.

    Ruckus

    @Chuck Butcher:

    I like women as well.
    Not all of them mind you but the one’s I don’t like are never because of looks or race. Some of them I have to know a while before I know I don’t like them, some give me clues right away. But they all get the benefit of the doubt. It’s not a perfect system of course but over the years it has shown me that the most important organ for desirability is,

    the brain.

  43. 43.

    Uriel

    @Brad Hanon: Noting the fact that someone is very pretty (or even crazy gorgeous) =! objectifying. Just thought I’d throw that in there.

  49. 49.

    JordanRules

    Stunning.

    A few shout-outs:
    Melissa Harris Perry (formerly Lacewell)
    Viola Davis
    Coretta Scott King
    Janet Jackson
    Camille Cosby
    My 2 little sisters :)

    Mrs. O is killin em.

  50. 50.

    ruemara

    Whoa. I think I will dream of lovely black women all night long. Thanks ABL. Especially for Nichelle Nicols who I adore.

  53. 53.

    johnsmith1882

    Uh, Josephine Baker? And Beyonce should have her own, more recent pic. She looks better with age and with a few more pounds on her. But I’m nitpicking. Nice job, ABL. Theorhetically, this doesn’t even sound like something that was necessary to do in order to debunk that article, like, all you have to do is read the headline and know that that’s a bunch of shit. But now that you did, and a picture tells a thousand words and all that, it really shows just how fucking retarded the article is.

  55. 55.

    Ruckus

    And these are some of the famous ladies that we all see. What about the unsung beautiful black women out there? How do we celebrate them?

  56. 56.

    Kane

    Nothing is more appealing or attractive in a person than their being comfortabl­e in their own skin.

  58. 58.

    ABL

    @johnsmith1882: i did it just for fun, not to prove a point. :)

    on my old pop culture blog, we used to have a “Daily Bale” (b/c I don’t even know why anymore. It just became a running joke.) Long story short, one of the reasons I keep paying the annual fee to maintain that blog is because every so often I like to scroll through that category… pantsless.

  59. 59.

    piratedan

    @Ruckus: how about by trashing that asshat’s reputation for publishing such an odious piece of shit in a respected magazine and calling the publication for task for allowing such twaddle to be associated with them?

  62. 62.

    Splitting Image

    @Joseph Nobles:

    Is it wrong that I’m hearing “Dream Negress” set to the tune of “Dreamweaver”?

    I was thinking “The Dream Police” by Cheap Trick.

    The Dream Negress, she lives inside of my head
    The Dream Negress, she comes to me in my bed
    The Dream Negress, she’s coming to arrest me, oh no

  64. 64.

    Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther

    I don’t think I have enough superlatives at my disposal to express how awesome this is.

    Also, too: Blinded by Pam Grier’s rack. Also. Most certainly.

    Also, too, too: I am, myself, particularly fond of the vision of lovliness in the lower right corner.

    Also, too, too, too: I very much hope someone lets M. Harris Perry know what company she’s keeping…. #justsayin’

  66. 66.

    Mereswin

    Great post ABL and I’m glad you added my former employer IMAN and a tribute to my black mother.

  68. 68.

    JGabriel

    Thirding or fourthing Josephine Baker. That’s a massive lacuna in this list.

    Also, seconding Naomie Harris.

    So glad to see Thandie and Kandyse here — just looking at them makes me melt inside.

    .

  70. 70.

    Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther

    @piratedan: For good or ill, it wasn’t the publication, per se, it was the publication’s blog, where bloggers post without a single editor getting so much as a glance at it first. As a former reporter/current blogger, I suspected as much, and that was confirmed for me in a Twitter conversation with a different Psychology Today writer, Mikhail Lyubansky, who spent yesterday tearing into Mr. Black-Ladies-Are-Ugly.

    Editors are kind of important, it turns out.

  71. 71.

    fortygeek

    No Queen Latifah? Her rendition of “When You’re Good to Mama” in the remake of Chicago keeps my spine tingly for hours.

  74. 74.

    Arclite

    Last row, far right: HOT.

    Who is she? I want to check her IMDB page, and also google image to see if there are any bikini pics…

  78. 78.

    Comrade Mary

    @bago: I am living that nightmare right now. GAH!

    Good God, I haven’t heard the word “Negress” since the mid-70s when I read some paperback written in the late 60s. It feels a bit PT Barnum-y to me, like “This way to the Negress.” [cue panting hordes of BJ commenters]

    Some awfully gorgeous women in that collection, and even more that I see every day just walking down the street in Toronto.

  80. 80.

    Chuck Butcher

    @Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal:

    you are a better man than me.

    Nope, 23 yrs ago (a couple days ago in fact) I was a drunk and measured everybody by my assholishness – don’t want to continue on that road then everything associated with it has to change including how others are measured. The best I can claim is to no longer be that particular asshole. Me and halos don’t get along.

  82. 82.

    Villago Delenda Est

    Um, can I give Mae Jemison a shout out here? First African-American woman in space? And a babe? With BRAINS!

  84. 84.

    Chuck Butcher

    @Ruckus:

    unsung beautiful black women out there? How do we celebrate them?/blockquote>

    I could link to a political friend of mine but this smart, charming, pretty woman is fairly recently married and that would be inappropriate. I will say that while she doesn’t quite fit the media mold on display here she is exactly as I’ve represented and as a male her company was flattering to have. Yes, I was faithfully married then and now.

  87. 87.

    eemom

    ok then. Problem solved. Next time there’s an issue with white men acting like racist assholes we know what to do — tickle their dicks. Damn, it’s so OBVIOUS.

  88. 88.

    aliasofwestgate

    How about Janelle Monae? NeoSoul concept albums. Brains, beauty and song. Amazing combo, at least for music geeks like me. :D

  90. 90.

    Yutsano

    :: checks every caption very carefully ::

    WTF? No Jennifer Hudson? I DEMAND A RECOUNT!!

  92. 92.

    Groucho48

    Melissa Harris Perry. Got to say, I’m madly in love with her. Even watched the Ed Show tonight though I can’t stand Ed, because she was on.

    Great looking, smart as a whip, smile to die for and a good sense of humor. Who could ask for anything more?

  93. 93.

    Ruckus

    @Chuck Butcher: @Chuck Butcher:

    The hardest thing for some of us to figure out is that we make the world around us better or worse by how we view and treat it and the other people in it, not how they view and treat us.
    To paraphrase JFK don’t ask what the world can do for you, ask what you can do for the world.

  96. 96.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    @Chuck Butcher:

    shoot, as my early teens come roaring back in my mind…

    Hah! That angle didn’t even cross my mind.

    What year did that come out? ’66? I might have been 1-year old. Wasn’t familiar with the song (I first heard Dirty Water when I was…12?) until Minor Threat did it in the mid-’80s.

    Not to keep making you feel older, but I was born the morning after this happened.

  98. 98.

    Church Lady

    The only one I’m not on board with are the Williams sisters. I’ve always thought they look like men in drag. Must be the huge muscles……

  104. 104.

    Yutsano

    @Ruckus: Beautiful and a lesbyterian. I am definitely down with that.

    EDIT: Where is Bnut? This thread is tailor-made for him. Damn Dawgs are never around when you want em. FSM bless em.

  105. 105.

    Chuck Butcher

    @Chuck Butcher:
    Dammit, since I have publicly relive my childhood – I want to make something clear, I owe Marion Co and Clark Co Ohio a tremendous debt for a fine Primary Education. If you bother to get around Ohio is an astonishingly pretty place rife with history.

    It breaks my heart to watch what is being done to that place by retarded politicians. It broke my heart to watch blatant greed gut the economic base. I watched all that from a distance – it became “Rustbelt” after I was gone.

  107. 107.

    eemom

    @Ruckus:

    what point did I miss? That black women are attractive? That wasn’t a point I needed to see proved.

    OTOH, if there IS a point to this “Miss Negress America” contest in the context of the recent ugliness on this blog — yes, I guess I did miss it.

    Do I need to just “lighten up,” and not take this race stuff so seriously? That it?

  109. 109.

    James

    Whenever I see footage of Ronnie Spector and Aretha Franklin I drool like I was in the middle of a haldol vacation. Some very beautiful women…

  110. 110.

    Chuck Butcher

    @eemom:

    Do I need to just “lighten up,” and not take this race stuff so seriously? That it?

    One of the problems with anything to do with bigotry is that bigots will piggyback on valid issues. People frequently get tied into knots trying to figure out where a stance is coming from and being tied in knots get it wrong – either direction and there ensues a dust up.

  111. 111.

    ABL

    @eemom: i put the post up in fun. who doesn’t like looking at pictures of hot people, yeah?
    @Joseph Nobles: i found myself humming “dream negress” as i was cleaning the kitchen. THANKSALOTDOOD!!!

  112. 112.

    Yutsano

    @ABL:

    i found myself humming “dream negress” as i was cleaning the kitchen.

    I already see the problem. And it has nothing to do with the song.

  113. 113.

    Chuck Butcher

    @ABL:
    Fortunately I don’t often suffer from earworms, though I am currently having a bit of difficulty with “Dirty Water” thanks to Temporarily Max.

    I am not currently cleaning anything.

  118. 118.

    Nate Dawg

    part of me hates in when people have racial “hangups” in their sexual attraction, but part of me understands it, i suppose. I’m not into girls, after all, and it’s not because I don’t enjoy their company.

    I guess the polite thing to do is keep it to yourself, if your sexual attraction is so limited, and maybe a little self-examination as to why you’re unattracted to a giant swathe of your own species.

    Me, I like every race. Except mark-larks. They’re just fugly.

  120. 120.

    Joey Maloney

    @Comrade Mary:

    Good God, I haven’t heard the word “Negress” since the mid-70s

    There’s an episode of Star Trek where someone sees Uhura and says, “Ah, a Nubian maid!” and her character’s line is “Sorry, neither!”

    I was a pre-teen when TOS was in first-run. It was something like twenty years later when I saw that in a rerun for the umpty-umpth time and finally got the joke.

  122. 122.

    isildur

    This is… an odd post. I don’t know whether to appreciate the post or cringe at the privileged care-posting in the thread.

    Oh well; since there seems to be plenty of privilege to go around:

    I just realized, in thinking back, that every woman I’ve dated has been a different ethnicity. The odd thing about that is that I didn’t actually notice this over twenty years of dating, serious relationships, and finally marriage.

    Freaky.

    (to remain on topic: that includes a black girl who was substantially hotter than at least half women pictured in the post.)

  123. 123.

    pixelpusher

    What about double threat singer/TV star Brandy Norwood? Or can anyone top Billboard and carry a hit show for six seasons?

  125. 125.

    bjacques

    I’ll always love Thandie Newton for her appearance on the Graham Norton Show in 2008, because I love a sense of humor):

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOdN2e5woVs

    (in case the content’s blocked, it’s a clip from the show. Ms. Newton’s promoting Oliver Stone’s “W,” wherein she plays Condoleezza Rice, and Ricky Gervais, of “The Office,” “Extras” and other fine shows, is promoting, well something. Graham Norton had downloaded a script for a, er, blue movie featuring “Serah” (absolutely not Palin!)and others. He hands Ms. Newton and Mr. Gervais a few pages and has them read a scene as “Serah” and “Business Partner”…)

  127. 127.

    Anne Laurie

    @Joey Maloney:

    There’s an episode of Star Trek where someone sees Uhura and says, “Ah, a Nubian maid!” and her character’s line is “Sorry, neither!”

    Uhura’s cooler than that — what a psychotropically-altered Sulu actually calls her is ‘Fair maiden’, to which she snaps “Sorry, neither!”

  128. 128.

    harlana

    @Anne Laurie: LOVE her! How about liplock with Captain Kirk. Shocking! (it was at the time, of course, which made it such a great moment in teevee history)

  132. 132.

    Cuppa Cabana

    This post would make Robert De Niro plotz.

    (But without Naomie Harris my dream is wanting.)

  133. 133.

    LGRooney

    To each his own, and all that, but where are the afros? Plenty of beauties with natural hair out there.

    And, no room for Mary J. Blige or Gladys Knight?!! WTF!

  135. 135.

    Luci

    Ohhhh… ABL… YOU are our “dream Negress!” We are way lucky to have you here, and I hope all things go well for and with you!

  136. 136.

    Digital Amish

    I hope I’m not being too crude when I note, that over the years, I’ve learned that my dick is pretty much color blind.

  137. 137.

    grumpy realist

    add Leontyne Price and Grace Bumbry to the list. Oh, and another vote for Josephine Baker.

  140. 140.

    Comrade Javamanphil

    Just adding another “hell yeah” for Queen Latifah. Carry on.

  141. 141.

    CynDee

    ABL, glad to SEE ya!

    So glad to see Theresa Harris in here. We recently saw her in Babyface, with Barbara Stanwyck. Now we are looking for all of Theresa’s films. What an artist. When she’s in a scene I can’t take my eyes off her to look at anyone else.

  143. 143.

    long ago

    Search YouTube for “Dandridge Chatanooga”, and fall in love.

    Little Dorothy is so scrumptiously adorable in that number (I.e. dancing and singing in “The Chatanooga Choo-Choo”) that I just want to eat her up, parasol and all.

    (Not to mention that the Nicholas Brothers were just epic dancers themselves).

  145. 145.

    Barbara

    They all look terrific. As a female I am not sure if my opinion counts, but I especially love Lena Horne, Debbie Allen and Iman. You can see Iman from time to time on the Home Shopping Network, and she comes across as personable and down to earth. I didn’t realize that she used to be married to an NBA professional before becoming Mrs. David Bowie.

  146. 146.

    gogol's wife

    @CynDee:

    She just pops off the screen, doesn’t she? TCM is showing “Cat People” and “Curse of the Cat People” this week, and she’s in both of them.

    To the post, I will quote David Niven in “Guns of Navarone”: Q.E.D.

  147. 147.

    DKF

    I searched your pulchritudinous array in vain for an image of Diahann Carroll, with whom I became utterly smitten as a 12-year-old small town white boy in Upstate NY watching her in Julia so many years ago. What a goddess!

  148. 148.

    Teemu

    Needs more Janet Jackson.

    Anyway, that samba dancer photo is taken in Helsinki Samba Carnaval (Finland), of asian girl. I know, she’s a friend, and I’m playing in the drum band following her. I don’t know if she qualifies to this category. :) But I’d say let everyone google their own favourite (tip: search words rainha+bateria)

  150. 150.

    Egpt Steve

    Wow, I used to watch Pam Grier on “Miami Vice” but somehow I never noticed she was so immensely talented. No wonder Tubbs was so hot for her.

  152. 152.

    gogol's wife

    @CynDee:

    Correction: above I said that Theresa Harris is in “Curse of the Cat People,” but she isn’t (she is in “Cat People”). The other Val Lewton film she’s in is “I Walked with a Zombie” (a fabulous film despite the title, like all Lewton films).

  154. 154.

    tomvox1

    All gorgeous, although I have to admit to some seriously get-down-get-funky thoughts whenever I see Pam Grier–tough, sexy, cool and va-va-voom! Time for a Foxy Brown retrospective!

    I do think that Beyonce is probably the sexiest woman on the planet currently, so that will hopefully be corrected in future editions of this delightful exercise. I might also add Gloria Hendry from Live and Let Die–3-foot ‘fro and a bod from Greek sculpture, not to mention breaking a Bond Girl color barrier. ;)

  155. 155.

    Brian R.

    Great list. But you need to add Nina Simone.

    And you forgot to provide an image of eeyoremom’s whining in the last thread.

  156. 156.

    Ash Can

    I just want to say that this post and thread givez me a happy. :)

    ETA: And we mustn’t leave Kathleen Battle out of this discussion. She’s fabulous.

  157. 157.

    Paul in KY

    FWIW, Joesphine Baker was a WW II hero & is a member of the French Legion of Honour. Gorgeous woman, too. As are all the ladies :-)

  160. 160.

    Tone in DC

    I’ll second Freema Agyeman.
    I’ll time travel with her at any point in human history.

  162. 162.

    shortstop

    Could Melissa Harris-Perry be any more adorable? Once the third baseman confessed that he fantasized about her talking dirty to him with that luscious mini-lisp. I could hardly fail to see his point.

  164. 164.

    Ghanima Atreides

    Did i miss my two favorites?
    this lady.
    Michelle Obama is a great lady and a great beauty.

    she walks in beauty like the night
    of cloudless climes and starry skies
    all that is best of dark and bright
    meet in her aspect and her eyes

    and nicki minaj
    my personal heroine and the greatest grrlstyle rapstah evah

  165. 165.

    Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther

    @Ruckus: I am going to guess that yes, because they really do have a reputation, and a fairly important kind of reputation, to uphold. But I’m also going to guess that it will be milque-toast and likely too-little-too-late (it’s already too late).

    @piratedan: Absolutely, and I have a feeling that in addition to what I said to Ruckus, they implement some policy or other intended to make it harder for someone to do that — but if it doesn’t involve the expense parts of publishing like editors and peer review, it won’t really help. (Though of course, I’m saying that about something that is only imaginary at this point. Don’t try this at home! Etc).

    @JGabriel: For that what you really need is an editor in your head. Which the gentleman in question appears to be lacking.

  168. 168.

    R-Jud

    @Cuppa Cabana:

    This post would make Robert De Niro plotz.

    Roger Ebert also, too.

    The toddler was just sitting here with me, pointing to the faces on the screen and saying “Pretty, pretty, pretty…”

  172. 172.

    R-Jud

    Also, too, your compendium needs MOAR TRACK & FIELD, ABL:

    The late, lamented FloJo (and her fingernails).

    Jackie Joyner-Kersee, shown here with her hardware. I watched her long jump at the 1987 (I think) Penn Relays, and my Dad took me down later to get her autograph. She was lovely.

  174. 174.

    ChrisB

    Sorry if someone mentioned this before but where’s Geraldine?

    You know, from the Flip Wilson Show?

  177. 177.

    Paul in KY

    @Ghanima Atreides: Don’t know if you saw it, but I gave mad props to you for your “Paul’s Colallary’ to your Libertarian theory back in that thread from last Friday. Loved the writeup.

    I have achieved immortality ;-)

  180. 180.

    fraught

    About thirty-five years ago I was walking down Broadway in NY and as I passed the Palace Theater I saw Lena Horne and Sidney Poitier standing outside having a smoke during intermission. They were a couple at the time. Seeing them together, I suddenly realized that the whole concept of who was beautiful was going to be changing and would be tipping away from the white race forever. I’ve never seen two such beautiful people in my life. I’m surprised there is still argument on this.

  183. 183.

    trollhattan

    @Chuck Butcher:

    There ya go. As to the post, thanks! I shall now have some coffee and consider I’ve extended my lifespan in two ways this young morning.

  184. 184.

    Peter VE

    I (middle aged, middle class guy of mostly European descent) used to not find African American women attractive. I wasn’t racist, not me. They just weren’t attractive. Then we adopted a girl with some African heritage (maybe half??). Suddenly, a lot of African American women looked far more beautiful. To put it crudely, once I had skin in the game, I changed.

  186. 186.

    CWD

    Janelle Monae
    Talented singer, songwriter and dancer. From what I have seen of her perfomances (video only, never live unfortunately) the lady is all class and no fear. She is also as hot as a thousand suns.

  188. 188.

    Juicetard (FKA Liberty60)

    As someone who is neither black nor female, I don’t have much comment other than if black women are supposedly so much less attractive, why is it that white men from Thomas Jefferson to DSK can’t seem to keep their hands off them?

  189. 189.

    Monala

    @tweedster: OMG, yes! I watched the trailer for “Jumping the Broom,” and all I could think was how stunning Angela Bassett is. She stands out in a movie filled with beautiful black women, and she’s in her 50’s!

  191. 191.

    Binky the Bear

    Michelle Obama?
    Venus and Serena?
    3/4 of the WNBA?
    Iman?
    Condoleeza Rice? Very genteel.
    Jennifer Hudson, before and after?

  192. 192.

    jake the snake

    The following story may or may not be offensive. It is certainly sexist. In my defense, It occurred in 1968, and I was 17.
    The story begins at an amusement park, where, while riding
    the roller coaster (The Wild Mouse), I heard a redneck asshole yell at the top of his lungs, “2, 4, 6, 8, I don’t wanna integrate.” I assume he was offended by the presence on black people in the park, or was just a racist asshole.
    Shortly after that, I was watching the tonight show where
    one of the guests was actress Judy Pace. The first thought
    that popped into my mind was: 2, 4, 6, 8, I want to miscegenate.

    http://www.mahoganycafe.com/judypace/judypace4.gif

    Also, a few years later I developed a crush on this young woman.

    http://www.sonoma.edu/pubs/release/2002/davis.jpeg

  195. 195.

    billy rae valentine

    @Cat Lady: indeed. i’ve never seen Michelle looking better than that white house correspondence dinner.

    i’d take her in that pic over Jackie O any day.

  198. 198.

    ABL

    josephine baker and nina simone were clear lapses on my part. i mostly went through last night’s thread and jotted down the names people had thrown out (which is why i added the picture of myself, ahem), and then spent about five minutes googling names on my own. honestly, once i got to that photo of phylicia rashad, i was DED.

    i simply love the look on her face. it’s classic huxtable face, and reminded me of my favorite cosby show moment when she goes off on elvin:

    “”And if you don’t get it together, and drop these macho attitudes, you are nevah gonna have anybody bringing you anything, anywhere, any place, any time, EVAH!!!”

    there are tons of women i left out. it was just supposed to be a fun post. we can still have fun around here, right?

    i hope so.

    cheers.

  199. 199.

    gil mann

    What, I gotta go find my own pictures of Spinderella? I don’t expect the FPers here to pander directly to me, but this… this is pushing it. Real good.

  202. 202.

    blahblahblah

    Billie Holiday

    Billie Holiday

    Billie Holiday

    Billie Holiday

    …

    Did I mention Billie Holiday?

  203. 203.

    Tuttle

    Ovid once said “At night there is no such thing as an ugly woman.” and Christian Dior once said “There is no such thing as an ugly woman, just ones who do not know how to make themselves attractive.”

    They’re both wrong because, as the Russian proverb has it, there should be no modifier: “There is no such thing as an ugly woman.”

    Period.

    As for an entry… How ’bout Kia Ling? Reminds me of another old saw; “Skin without freckles is like a sky without stars.”

  205. 205.

    Citizen_X

    Do they have to be real? ‘Cause, just for fun, I’ll go with Lana Kane.

    Who is, of course, voiced by Aisha Tyler: third row up from the bottom and, as Mr Sheen would put it, sha-mokin’.

  206. 206.

    Mike B

    I think there needs to be a poster version of this in the Balloon Juice store.

  209. 209.

    Howlin Wolfe

    I know what they look like, so I know they’d be great additions to this list: May J. Blige and Erikah Badu.
    Ivy Anderson, who sang for Duke Ellington in the ’30s, was also HAWT. My HTML skills are terrible, so I can’t insert picturs of them in comments. :-(

  210. 210.

    Sad_Dem

    Ah, Thandie Newton. She passes the Ferrari test. It goes like this:

    TN: Honey, I’m sorry, but I crashed your Ferarri.
    SD: What?!? OMG, are you OK?

  213. 213.

    Mnemosyne

    @gogol’s wife:

    I have the whole Val Lewton box set. Love. Them.

    I Walked with a Zombie is absolutely astonishing for 1943 when it comes to race, especially when you look at the movies that, say, Preston Sturges was making at the same time, which have scenes that will make you cringe in embarrassment (Ale and Quail Club, I’m looking at you). Just the subtext that slavery was a horrible crime that hangs over the entire island is huge for the time.

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