Talk:Black is beautiful

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Re: Essay-opinion

Needs to cite sources, organize in encyclopedic fashion rather than essay fashion, and remove opinions. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Roscelese (talk • contribs) 17:04, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

I agree, the article overall needs to be proofread for grammar, tone, and flow. Right now it reads as very unacademic. NeptunianJellyfish (talk) 21:25, 16 September 2023 (UTC)

blackisbeautiful.se

I'm going to remove that link right away. It is an outrage to have such a link posted on a wikipedia artikel and quite frankly it's discussting! hvh —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.66.220.205 (talk) 15:14, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Origins

Needs more the origin of this movement. Malcom X is credited for spreading it. Who else? Stillwaterising (talk) 00:41, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

Illustration poster

It seems to me that the illustration used in this article is kind of misleading. The poster obviously references the original movement, but uses it just as a a word play with its own party colors (the JU is the youth organisation of the conservative party, which is associated with the color black). Maybe someone with more political insight might want to shed some light on this, but I'd suggest to use an illustration from the actual movement and not something designed by an advertising agency years later in a completely different context. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.72.54.101 (talk) 21:47, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

That makes sense to me! Omarisafari (talk) 15:48, 15 December 2018 (UTC)

I would also request to remove/replace this poster as I see the same Problem as the user above. The article de:Liste_geflügelter_Worte/B#Black_is_beautiful (List of dictums/familiar quotations) in german wikipedia shows the poster as an example of the use of "Black is beautiful" by the Christian Democratic Union of Germany in the 1970s due to its association with the color black (as the traditional color of catholic/christian parties in central europe). There are also later examples of this appropriation which has nothing to do with the movement or even black liberation in the wider sense, like c:File:KAS-Black_is_beautiful-Bild-35219-1.jpg. I think this should be removed from this context or maybe be moved to a new section which discusses various forms of appropriation of the mere slogan (or as in this example also the use of a black person's image) for commercial or non-related political purposes. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.58.243.56 (talk) 08:01, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

Removed poster as per discussion. Someone else needs to find a replacement. Blurrim (talk) 09:05, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

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Needs pictures

I never thought I would ever say that ever that on Wikipedia but...this Wikipedia article needs (among others) more pictures of beautiful black women. : ) There are some keys dates such as the first black model, or the first black model to have travelled abroad. — Preceding unsigned comment added by OPAZL (talk • contribs) 20:51, 9 February 2021 (UTC)

Bible!

the expression itself surely comes from song of solomons 1:4-5 "Nigra sum, sed formosa" (I am black, but [i am] beautiful), and various choral adaptations thereof, no? why no discussion of that in the article? 2601:19C:5280:5BA7:8839:7D45:3921:410B (talk) 19:04, 18 February 2022 (UTC)

Requested move 26 July 2022

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The result of the move request was: moved. Favonian (talk) 19:43, 2 August 2022 (UTC)

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Black is Beautiful → Black is beautiful – Per WP:NCCPT QueenofBithynia (talk) 19:49, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

• Support per WP:MOVEMENT. See also Talk:Free the nipple#Requested move 25 May 2020. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 23:50, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
• Support – It was long at Black is beautiful, but was moved to uppercase in 2020 with edit summary "(it's a slogan)", which is certainly not within our guidelines or naming conventions. Dicklyon (talk) 06:28, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
• Support and revert back to stable title In ictu oculi (talk) 11:57, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
• Support per WP:ISMCAPS and WP:NCCAPS, and to be WP:CONSISTENT with other social-movement articles.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  09:21, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

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