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The article “The Women “Blackfishing” on Instagram Aren’t Exactly Trying to Be Black” by Lauren Michelle Jackson on November 29, 2018 is about how Instagram makeup and model gurus are conveying ‘black fishing’. The root of blackfishing comes from a word catfishing, which is someone who is posing to be a different person whom they are not. Instagram famous women: Emma Hallberg and Rachel Dolezal are posting photos and videos through social media of them changing their white skin tone to a black persons shade. Besides that the way they dress from clothes to jewelry , their box braids and dreadlocks are other ways these white girls are trying to be black girls. 

I think that this is alarming and racist towards some viewers on social media. The way they show themselves off on social media , by the way they color their skin tone with makeup  and expose themselves through the internet is a reason why mainly blback peoples find this racist and stereotypical in their culture. In my eyes of a millennial, the way they dress and style themselves is appropriate because it is a trend but if they are clearly white under their makeup they should stay to that relative color. One of the Instagram influencers, Rachel Dolezal says to Buzz feed, “ I do not see myself anything else than white”. She claims to be a white person and her consistent posts and reminders from black dissenters saying  this is “Blackfishing” clearly shows how this is not okay to viewers online. Lastly, if these females only knew the history behind black American culture they would take the choice of either making amends or keep exploiting hers to us.