Honey Touché

[stellarlunacy]

she looks like she having fun! cute but no jo 

[divafix]

its entertaining, especially for the males, but i think i can do a better imatation than her, i'm sure a lot of people could, the music is not there and the facial expressions surely are not there.

[HConstantine]

She probably ought to follow Baker's CHoreopgrpahy more closely. Once she learned to do that, the she could grow as a choreopgrapher.

[mwanawachozi]

another example of white folks appropriating black/afrikan culture for their own entertainment/purposes and with no regard to herstory or context....that's right as with almost everything else, it's the black woman that first showed us how to do it right and we been trying ti replicate ever since when.....

[HConstantine]

1. Try writing in standard English.

2. Racial politics are dead.

[mwanawachozi]

that would be a liberal view. what you think coz you got Obama and it's 2009.....we're all done with racism and imperialism. and my choice of language is deliberate/political......to quote one of my teeachers....the masters tools will never dismantle the master's house......my use of the language is standard (for reclaiming power

[HConstantine]

Really? You think of yourself as having a master? Perhaps that is your problem.

Maybe you ought to get a different teacher and read some Ovid or Goethe.

[mwanawachozi]

so are you interested in attacking or dialoguing? no, i don't think myself as having a master.....it's what 'standards' in english call sayings and analogies....you're not supposed to take them 'literally'.....i think my teachers are necessary...though ironiocally I AM actually reading ovid right now......metamorphoses....but solely for deconctruction and as a 5th hand source for reclaiming great goddess....otherwise you i'm reading OTHER great classics

[mwanawachozi]

i dun read them and i'm decolonizing my mind right now....I suggest you read audre lorde, bell hooks, walter rodney, angela davis, edward said, frantz fanon, tajudeen abdul-raheem, d'bi young.anitafrika...just to start...ovid and goethe are SO not the way forward

[samhellw]

I'm very sorry , you're comment makes no sence as joséphine bakers bigest supportest where white as it was the Parisians , it is the americans , white and black who hated her .... and it has nothing to do with the colour of your skin but freedom of expressing who you are ... and I am sure the great mrs Baker would agree with me !

[mwanawachozi]

i'm very sorry....YOUR comment makes no sense...as it doesn't matter who her biggest supporters were, at least not in relation to what I was talking about.....and that speaks more to the privileges that her supporters had....let's take a more modern comparison to the point that you;re making...technically the biggest supporters of mainstream hiphop artists are WHITE....they dun got most of the money to buy records...does that mean this hip hop hasn't been co-opted?

[mwanawachozi]

en to finish on that @samhellw....does that mean that most of mainstream hip hop artists, for example, aren't just puppets,relaying opprressive ideologies, all the bling and misogyny? does that mean that black music today is not being appropriated STILL.....i'm sure that mrs. baker would agree with me on the fact that the ways that her music and ART was exploited was an intricate part of racism & imperialism

[samhellw]

I am guessing you are american ( I am not saying that in a derogatry way what so ever ) but , being european , I see things quite differently , as we haven't had segration problems ( not on the scale of the U.S at least ) for a very long time , so it just seems like a suprising comment . I just don't see this has anything to do with skin colour , that's all ! actually , no , I don't see skin colour as a big deal , maybe because I am white , I don't know !!! any way I have loved JB since

[mwanawachozi]

actually. again. you guessed wrong. but I overstand why you would...it's called the hegemony of oppresive ideologies. i'm not american. i actually have never been to the states. technically, iwas born in easter europe. so you could even call me european before you called me anything else other what I am...an afrikan. and yes your white privilege probably has most to do with your perspective. it's always easier for the oppressed to articulate how bodies are appropriated en exploited

[mwanawachozi]

the bigger point is for one to be willing to un/learn oppression. which is why I'm engaing in dialogue with you. I respekt that you bring out your perspectives as honestly as you can. ofcourse there's always a next step required. so yes, recognise that as a white european. you have alot more to acknolwedge about race relations

[deejaygrl]

I disagree ,all blacks did not hate her.I for one didn't and all of my ancestors didn't either.

[taytay1609]

MMM... a white girl impersonating the one the only Josephine Baker? You don't see that every day! Lol

[TheMareezy]

if it weren't for those bananas, this would look weird.

[jjconfucius81]

I give her an A for effort but clearly by the comments everyone knows that no one can do it like Josephine!!!!

[samhellw]

thats why she was Joséphine !!!!!

[mynsweet6]

Maybe she is not so good as Josephine, but she gives sunshine with r smile and fun and try it, sure not easy and you need to have such a body!!

[blssnare]

not a bad imitation... but she cannot move her hips ANYWHERE close to as well as Josephine Baker could...

[nikkolea11]

i think miss baker did more than toot her butt at the audience

[PaiintDriP]

A bit funny , but riducule ! There's Just Josephine Baker who can do that well ^^

[Romantasycabaret]

adorable modern take on a classic!