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This presentation is to show the types of equipment that was used to make my production successful and underneath each image it tells you how I used it during the days of shooting. ONE that was missing was sand bags I used them to ensure that the lights never fell.

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I used a little part of this clip as a voice over at the end to make my audience feel involved and make them feel motivated. My first intention was to do voice over to create more of a storyline but instead I used a little bit.

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I choose the title "Label Me" because it's something that is imprinted on a individual before they have even opened their mouth.

We have always been taught to "never judge a book by its cover" but because of media and the way society has been portrayed this has had an huge impact on the way people think.

As a young black women, I can relate and understanding of how difficult and frustrating it can be to be continuously labeled by society.
people are quick to judge you either by; the way you talk, the types of emotions you show and occasionally your judged by the things you stand for.

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When it came to exporting my footage it was quite difficult because I was exporting on an uncompressed file which meant it would have been too big.

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I realized that one of the interviewees glasses were reflecting the light. This has been a real struggle for me because there were no extra shots taken of this specific time and whilst shooting this problem did not occur.

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Within schools, black girls emotions are usually read differently and because of that they are usually labelled as being argumentative , disrespectful and disruptive to other learning. Because of this black girls are 7 times more likely to be suspended form school which Is awfully shocking.

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A new report is further confirming the racial biases black girls face in school when it comes to being disciplined.

The National Black Women's Justice Institute recently examined the Education Department's data from the 2013-2014 school year, which was released in June 2016, and found that nationally, black girls were more than seven times more likely than white girls to receive an out-of-school suspension.

Though black girls made up only 16 percent of the female student population, 28 percent of them were physically restrained, 43 percent were referred to law enforcement (2.5 times more likely than white girls) and 38 percent were arrested (four times more likely than white girls). Latina elementary students were nearly three times more likely to be arrested than non-Latina white girls.

The social justice nonprofit also looked at these trends regionally. In the South and the West, black girls were five times more likely to face suspension than white girls; in the northeast, black girls were six times more likely to face suspension; and in the Midwest, black girls were 10 times more likely.

"The overrepresentation of Black and Latina girls receiving school discipline is alarming," the institute's president, Monique W. Morris, said in a statement. "These findings further demonstrate why we must have promising and effective responses for our girls of color that co-construct safety through a lens of cultural competence and gender responsiveness."

This information isn't surprising given that black girls have historically faced extreme inequality at school with little to remedy it. During the 2011-2012 school year, black girls were suspended six times more often than their white peers.

A study published by Georgetown Law's Center on Poverty and Inequality in June showed that adults view young black girls as less innocent and more adult-like than white girls starting as young as age 5. Study co-author Rebecca Epstein previously told HuffPost that the racial biases black girls face must be addressed.

"The consequences of entering the juvenile justice system can't be ignored," Epstein said. "As we know, it can change the course of a girl's life. But despite these startling statistics, there's precious little research about why this different treatment happens; why are black girls subjected to more discipline and greater contact with the juvenile justice system?"

Read the National Black Women's Justice Institute's full study here.

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Black Girls Are 7 Times More Likely To Be Suspended Than White Girls: Report

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A new report is further confirming the racial biases black girls face in school when it comes to being disciplined. The National Black Women's Justice Institute recently examined the Education Department's data from the 2013-2014 school year, which was released in June 2016, and found that nationally, black girls were more than seven times more likely than white girls to receive an out-of-school suspension.

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From watchin this I realized that labels that are put onto black women don't only effect the older generation but it also affects the younger generation.  By watching this clip I had found on Instagram, I thought it was so inspirational and hard to watch because its just so facinating to see young girls use there voice to put across a positive message.

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Because I'm a Black Female Spoken Word Poetry

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Whilst editing, I released that some of the interviewees did not answer all of the questions that were asked so to fix this I will try my hardest to ensure that the clips that I have left that I work with them and create something even more beautiful.

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I wanted to put in my own music that I had created but I found that their were some issues that I was facing especially when it came to editing so, I decided that I would find a nice, soothing soundtrack which would still create the same atmosphere that I had imagined

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DSharp - Perfect (Violin Version)  Ed Sheeran.mp3

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What is it...? is the question I kept asking my self when I was deciding on my project. After watching different types of factual; television I learnt that it has a lot to do with real life events and situations that take place within the world on a regular day to day base. These types of programs allow people to view peoples opinions on a down to earth level without causing any problems.

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Today is the official day of me beginning to edit my production. Even though I believe that I am running behind schedule I am prepared to stay back after class to ensure that everything is 100%.
However, I've been facing some troubles as I've not been able to access all of my footage, but I'm working to work on finding them and if I don't I will end up having to re-shoot specific foootage

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Today has been a very productive day as I am getting ready to film the first part of my production.
In the morning, I had a brief word with my tutor to ensure he was updated and I went to the location to set up my lighting and book specific equipment which would be needed.
I have very positive feelings about this as I have prepared my self , ensured that all the interviewees were still coming and on TIME.
Filming between 5-7pm was a fantastic idea as everyone was more comfortable and there was less of an hassle. filming was a huge success even though there was some struggles we still got through it all. However, if I was to state the biggest one it would be when the girls begun to get frustrated about the brightness of the light and how it was starting to effect there eyes. So to fix this I had to turn down the fill light which would only leave the key and the background light both being the only brightly active ones.

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This is a clear image of the booking sheet that I had to fill out to ensure that no one else was given the equipment the same day that I had meant to be using it. This document is for security. It highlights the types of equipment I'm taking out, when i'll be returning them and specifically what time ill be taking and returing the kits.

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I created these Labels for my filming.
I used these specific labels be shown because I believe that these are the labels that are put on black women the most. RUDE, LOUD, STUBBORN and DIVA. I specifically used the word DIVA because people uses that word to make this sound sweet but to some black women this could be quite offensive.

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In total I originally had, 7 interviewees in total and leading up to the day of filming...I was informed that two of the interviewees were unable to make it on the two specific days that I had selected to shot ( which were Tuesday and Thursday )

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Throughout this whole week, there was a HUGE problem that had occurred was that my location had some flooring issues which kind of startled me as I thought I would have to find a new location however as this days went by I ensured that I checked every two days to see if the flooring was complete and eventually it was all complete and ready before my shooting day

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This is a grammatical lay out of how I want my whole shoot to go and next to every picture there is an shot explanation of how  I want everything to look , this would include the types of shots I would be using. This allows me to visually see what I'm doing and seeing the things I can change

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I took the time to call all the interviewees and have a phone call meeting with them so they were clear on what my plans were and what specifically they will be doing. This was useful as it helped with my communication skills.

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Within these six days, I had to do a lot of researching on articles, interviews that highlighted upon the topic that I wanted to address. This was difficult at times because the topic isn't full addressed and acknowledged by society as it should be. So finding different articles to support my research was a bit difficult but eventually with a bit of correct guidance I was able to find some good articles.

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Within this time, I was still not 100% on what I wanted my idea to be so I still continued to do my idea, whilst sketching out potential new ones. By the end of this week, I decided that I would stick with the ideas of black women being constantly labelled.

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These four days we specifically dedicated to analysing specific films- the reason for this is so ill be able to select different clips which highlights how  black women on TV are being portrayed.

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I decided to remove out question number two. Reason for this would be because the intiviewees found it hard to answer as they personally don't feel any anger anymore but they just feel frustrated.
Another question that had to be re-worded was Question three instead of " social media " I stated media in general.

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Whilst editing I had to acknowledge that I had knowledge of how to use adobe premiere pro but not a clear understanding on how to use certain skills. So during my time of , I had taken the time to watch a tutorial which would help me to be more advanced.

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PREMIERE PRO TUTORIAL 2018 | For Beginners (in 4K)

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Premiere Pro Tutorial 2017 - 2018 for Beginners. This video will teach you everything you need to learn to edit with Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2018. Including Transitions, Title, Effects, LUTS and many other stuff. DOWNLOAD PROJECT FILES HERE: http://bit.ly/2lEgO0p Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/khristian_flohr GET PREMIERE PRO CC 2018: https://adobe.ly/2gMaXYq Good luck!

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originally I wanted to do my projected on motivational speeches and how people who have come from a rough background have decided to change their future for the better. However, after taking everything into consideration such as the location , finding people who are willing to talk about the past and putting this whole idea in one would have caused some difficult situations.
So instead I decided to address a topic which has been suffering the media recently which is the constant labels that black women in general face on a day to day base.

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1. How do you feel as a black women being constantly labelled?

2. What about it makes you angry?

3. Do you think media in general has a lot to do with the way black women are portrayed? Why?

4. What advice would you give to younger black girls?

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From this photo , gives you a key insight of how I want my lighting to be set up. I used this set up to  create my own light . from this I would have control of how the back ground looks and how to prevent shadows.

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This is a scene from " diary of a mad black women" when madea gets angry at her granddaughter husband who wants a divorce and she decided to cut the sofa with a chain saw.
From this it shows
it shows how produces place these negative imagery of black women on TV , knowing this would be drilled into the audience mind making them instantly think that every black women is angry, loud, aggressive etc..

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Family that Fights #2   Madea Chainsaw Couch

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Within my spare time, I wanted to acknowledge my type of audience and to understand what they like to see when they are watching a documentary and from the evidence 50% of the people watch documentaries because of the story line. Whilst , doing this I ensured that I used a variety of methods to find out all these answers...starting with  an primary question which allowed me to introduce my topic and to do this I asked " do you enjoy watching documentaries?" . With this question I decided to used the method of ranking as I believe that it would allow me to  see how much people enjoy watching documentaries.
The I started to use secondary questions as they are specific questions which would allow me to ask  people there age and gender. These questions would allow me to get to know who my main audience is.

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This video was so inspiring and me  realized that I would like to use some of the aspects that have been used. this video gives the audience a clear message about labels in general which is sort of similar to mine but my labels will be specifically directed to black women.
From this video, is where I got idea of doing a voice over because without seeing all of the speakers mouth move still brings across a very strong message.

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Whilst doing test shots, I thought that it would be great if I could create my own music to set the atmosphere that will be used within the clip as the interviewees walk to there spot.

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This was, a potential location for where I would shoot my project. the reason why I had this in mind was because it was spacious, which made me start thinking of all of the shots that I would like to take.

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This film was used as part of my research as I wanted to view have black women were stereotyped with films, but unfortunately it only addressed how she is a confident women who knows what she wants and will not settle for anything other than that.

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This article highlights
on how black women are beginning to get frustrated at the fact that they have to change the code of how they speak in their everyday life. However, from this article I realised that I didn't just want to address angry black women alone , but I also wanted to address the fact that black women are continuously labelled in general on a day to day base.

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Kudos to Michelle Obama for giving voice to the need to debunk the "angry black woman" label. While watching her give her farewell interview to Oprah, I felt a huge sense of gratitude for her taking what I consider to be a firm first step in the obliteration of a ridiculous label (that should have been long ago laid to rest). The moniker may seem harmless enough, but if you really examine it, it's suggesting that a particular demographic group is inherently more angry as if it's in our DNA somehow...hmmm, can you say "racist, sexist"? Furthermore, it proactively delegitimizes any complaints/concerns we might have while also robbing us of the ability to experience anger (a completely legitimate if not necessary human emotion I assume) because after all, we already have the label so we can't do anything to reinforce it. Another huge problem is that it treats Black women as if they're monolithic and anyone who has known more than a few Black women can certainly attest to the fact that we're anything but. Indeed, I'm quite tired of the label. It's completely lame and lazy in my humble opinion - lazy because it's a cowardly, sinister way of attacking a group of people that may not be well understood instead of taking the time to comprehend the complex issues that they face.

I believe that we tend to fall into stereotypical thinking when we don't really understand a particular group - whether we're talking about Millennials, Little People, Native Americans, the visually challenged, or Black women. The key to dispelling the stereotype in many ways in my mind is simply sharing more of who we are as Black women. So, let me start the process...I'm a 45 year old Black woman, and I started a corporate training/keynote speaking firm in 2003 after working successfully in corporate America for more than a decade. I've been blessed to present training events and speak at conferences across the country and in several countries. Unlike Sarah Palin, I've always been quite interested in international travel so I started in childhood and focused more extensively in my 20s. I still remember marching in anti-apartheid marches in South Africa when I was in my 20s and too naïve to realize how dangerous it was. I attended one of the country's elite post-secondary institutions Spelman College (which also happens to be a historically African American female college), then moved on to get industrial engineering and business degrees from Georgia Tech and later Emory University. Both my parents have PhDs in education and my college roommate (also my cousin) has a PhD in mathematics, so I've always been surrounded by a lot of educational excellence. By the way, I've also made it 45 years without ever having been in a fight or being arrested. I don't share all of this to brag or boast as if I'm special or unique in some way. Instead, my point is the complete opposite. I'm not unique or different at all. Virtually every Black woman that I know has a background and life experience very similar to mine. For myself and my peers I have noticed that although we're "accomplished" and have been able to navigate corporate America and life without evidence of any significant "anger issues", this label somehow still seems to attach itself to what I would instead characterize as an assertive, bold, decisive energy that we often use to navigate a world that often seems to treat us with disdain.

While I can't speak for all Black women any more than I can speak for any demographic group, these are my three top reasons why the label in my opinion is not just a silly myth but has become fundamentally offensive branding.
1. Black women often have to demand while others may be able to simply ask.
This simple fact is that people often respond differently to others based on factors like race, gender, income level, and age. After my husband's recent medical procedure, he commented "You know....people respond so differently to you when they find out you're a physician." He explained that while the nurse was prepping him for his procedure, she asked him what he did for a living and when he responded that he was a physician, her entire demeanor changed immediately. She seemed to nervously finish working on him with a sense of urgency and announced that she would get the doctor in to see him right away (even though he hadn't asked to see him). That didn't surprise me and it really shouldn't surprise any of us. It's a simple fact that we interpret and respond to a situation based on our own lens (and that lens is often heavily distorted by our own natural biases and preconceptions). Where an "affluent looking" older white man may simply make a request and be responded to with the utmost of urgency; oftentimes, that same polite request coming from a black female may fall on deaf ears or even be ignored. I've personally been in many, many situations where I've had to put a little base in my voice and "go Defcon 4" (as I often refer to my consciously becoming more assertive in an interaction) to make it clear that I expect to receive the level of service or result I'm due. I don't do it out of any innate "anger". I just vehemently believe that my thoughts, requests, opinions, and ideas are as valuable as others' and am comfortable responding as such. I'm also results oriented and have learned the hard way that sometimes you have to shock people out of their natural biases and prejudices to receive equal treatment.

Viewing this more broadly, I'm sure there is a Darwinian reality at play here in that over many decades of discriminatory treatment, we (as Black women) have certainly not survived and thrived by being meek, submissive, and compliant. Instead, being willing to fight when we may have wanted to flee and learning to face the world each day with a firm, impenetrable strength and assertive and bold voice I'm sure was key to our very existence. So, it probably shouldn't be too surprising that as a group that's survived years and years of discrimination, we've developed a bit of a thick skin. That thick skin from my perspective isn't necessarily a harshness - it's just a comfort level and familiarity with having to demand what others simply ask for.

The simple truth is that we all respond based on our perceptions and when white males/females make requests or comments they're often viewed as more important, smart, insightful, urgent, etc. and yield superior results. Unfortunately, when black females make the same comments/requests, they're oftentimes not viewed as important or valuable - hence the need many black women feel to correct that misperception.
2. Aggression is often viewed differently depending on where it's coming from.
Invariably, when I receive poor service in a restaurant and ask to speak to a manager, it's viewed as my being difficult, petty, or "angry", but if a well-dressed white man makes the same request, he might be viewed very differently - maybe assertive, strong, or savvy. This bias is likely an indirect factor in the overwhelming disparity of promotions of African American females in corporate America. In the 2016 Fortune 500 listing of CEOs, only ONE is a black female (and she is scheduled to depart the list next year when she leaves the CEO position to take on a different role). Earlier this year, the Washington Post ran an article entitled, There soon could be no black female CEOs among America's largest companies. The rarity of Black females in executive level positions is no coincidence, and it's certainly not because they have some inherent leadership inferiority. (We need only review Trump's mostly white male roster of cabinet picks for the latest example.) The reality is that one factor likely holding them back from flying up the corporate ladder is that comments, suggestions, recommendations coming from an African American female are oftentimes simply not viewed as positively or given the same credence as those coming from their white (often male) counterparts. So when Black women are in the boardroom and simply state a fact, firmly state a position, or staunchly defend a point, their comments may be much more likely to be interpreted as "angry" not because of the content of the message but because of the race and gender of the messenger.
3. Black women certainly have a right to be "angry".
I too am not immune from bias so I always like to lean on facts. The reality is that Black females in America have been consistently discriminated against for decades - that is simply a fact.

· Only 2.8% of directors on Fortune 500 boards are black, Latina, or Asian women (as reported by Catalyst).

· 2015 AAUW pay gap analysis reports that black women earn only 63 cents for every dollar white men earn. The National Women's Law Center reports that the pay gap costs black women $877,480 over the course of a 40 year career.

· Elle ran a riveting article entitled Why I'm Shocked a White Police Officer Was Convicted of Sexually Assaulting Black Women. Another article detailed how the rapist officer preyed on Black women specifically because he assumed no one would believe their claims so he seemingly raped at will (convicted of raping more than 13 Black women over a seven month period).

· A Pew Research study reports that while 40% of blacks say their race or ethnicity has made it harder for them to succeed in life, just 5% of whites - and 20% of Hispanics - say this. About a quarter of women (27%) say their gender has made it harder for them to succeed in life, compared with just 7% of men, the study reports.

· A Women's Bureau U.S. Department of Labor report reports that 4 in 10 Black families with children under 18 were headed by a single working mother, and 1/3 of Black families with children headed by a single working mother were living in poverty.

In the face of the overwhelming reality of discrimination that Black women face daily, many would argue that they certainly have a right to be angry. I think that Newton's third law of physics applies to interpersonal dynamics as well. If some Black women have a demeanor that's maybe a bit pensive, many could argue that that's to be expected and may be a healthy defense mechanism given the past/current societal climate. But Black women in my opinion are far too diverse and varied to have their demeanor characterized as a group any more than any other demographic group. The Black women I know are far too busy to be angry. They invariably acknowledge the hand they've been dealt as a double minority and focus on playing to win. For me as a Black woman I wake up each day, not angry but grateful, exuberant, optimistic, expecting great things, determined and yes, prepared for battle - not looking for a battle, but nevertheless completely prepared. If others interpret that bold energy as "too much", I guess that's an adjustment they'll have to make.

Dana Brownlee is an acclaimed keynote speaker, corporate trainer, and team development consultant. She is President of Professionalism Matters, Inc. a boutique professional development corporate training firm based in Atlanta, GA. She can be reached at danapbrownlee@professionalismmatters.com. Connect with her on Linked In @ www.linkedin.com/in/danabrownlee and Twitter @DanaBrownlee.

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Why Black Women Are SO Tired Of The 'Angry Black Woman' Label

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Kudos to Michelle Obama for giving voice to the need to debunk the "angry black woman" label. While watching her give her farewell interview to Oprah, I felt a huge sense of gratitude for her taking what I consider to be a firm first step in the obliteration of a ridiculous label (that should have been long ago laid to rest).

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This picture is used as part of my research because it includes a stereotype which is pernicious.
The sapphire Caricature portrays black women as being loud, stubborn or even over baring but that is simply not the case. From the mid 1800's -1900's black women have continuously being portrayed badly on social media.

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The guardian addressed the issue of how Alexandra Bruke was labelled as being a "diva" or being "difficult" - this article highlights the point that black women have to change they way they conduct them self on a regular base to suit the societies point of view.
With in the article, Kehinde Andrews quoted that " every time you see one of these reality shows, you see they get ethnically cleansed very quickly" this just shows that because of how black women are continuously being portrayed it has a huge impact on the careers.

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Few contestants have dominated the Strictly Come Dancing dancefloor like Alexandra Burke has this year. She received the first 10 of the season for her jive to Tina Turner's Proud Mary, performed a flawless, Mary Poppins-themed charleston and impressed the judges with her salsa and her Viennese waltz.

Despite her technical brilliance, Burke has found herself repeatedly in the bottom two - as voted for by the British public. And some observers have perceived a contempt for her, from both the media and the public, that is unlike anything directed towards her fellow contestants.

This week Burke received an apology from the BBC Radio 2 presenter Chris Evans over the fact that she had been in the bottom two the week before. "I would like to apologise on behalf of Great Britain because we forgot to vote for you," said Evans to Burke, who revealed that Strictly had told her people didn't vote for her because they presumed she was safe.

But alongside that benign explanation for her underperformance is another more troubling interpretation - and one that has nagged televised popularity contests ever since the early days of Big Brother. By this argument, Burke's surprising difficulties are linked to deeply rooted racial anxieties that will not go away.

Despite Ore Oduba taking the Strictly crown last year, accusations of unconscious voter racism have long plagued the show, particularly after the row caused by the successive departures of black contestants Tameka Empson and Melvin Odoom. Subsequent analysis by the Guardian demonstrated that being black or minority ethnic increased a contestant's chances of being in the bottom two by 71%, and being both black and female increased those odds by 83%.

Kehinde Andrews, a sociology professor at Birmingham City University and the co-editor of Blackness in Britain, said it was unsurprising that the British public were uncomfortable voting for Burke to win Strictly, a show beloved for promoting family values and a sense of British national identity, which many still see as being at odds with multiculturalism and diversity.

"Every time you see one of these reality shows, you see they get ethnically cleansed very quickly," said Andrews. "These shows speak to how black and ethnic minority people are viewed with suspicion across Britain."

Burke may have been the highest scoring contestant of the competition but across the media she has repeatedly been branded a "diva" and a "difficult" contestant, who "can't stop bickering" and "screaming" at her dance partner, Gorka Marquez. It was then alleged that she went into "meltdown" after finding herself in the bottom two once again last Sunday, forcing Burke to issue a denial of the "fake" report.

Some observers said Joanna Jarjue, a contestant on The Apprentice, had received similar treatment before she was fired this week, having been persistently presented as unusually argumentative and aggressive. Lucy Mckeown, a makeup artist, tweeted:

Lucyferrr (@Lucyferrr)
Have to say the thinly veiled racism directed at @joannajarjue on this seasons Apprentice was hard to watch. She was no more "confrontational" than anyone else.
December 14, 2017

When Jarjue left the show she said she was grateful to everyone "who has supported me, been rooting for me and seen beyond a narrative".

Andrews said Burke's characterisation in some parts of the media was typical. "We shouldn't be surprised that this is what's happened on Strictly," he said. "The diva script is one of the only scripts that is put across on TV for reading black women."

Melanie Hill, a mixed-race female contestant on the first series of Big Brother, said that she had experienced similar prejudice when she was on the show and added that misogyny often went together with racial stereotypes.

"It was all interwoven with sexuality from the beginning,' said Hill. "The video clip of the show that I couldn't escape was of me getting unchanged in the bedroom. It was the same behaviour as everyone else, it's not like I was doing striptease, but it was my bum that got singled out.

"It felt like they wanted to reduce me to this stereotype of a overly sexual, aggressive mixed-race woman. And the press had a complete field day with me being this despised 'black widow'. I was called a preying mantis. It was all so sexually loaded which couldn't be further my own view of my own identity."

It was a similar experience for Makosi Musambasi, a contestant on Big Brother 6, who described how she had entered the show believing people would see her for who she was, an articulate, well-educated nurse, and had been shocked to find on leaving the show that the focus was entirely on her as a "sexy black woman with big boobs".

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Makosi Musambasi, sixth from right, with the rest of the housemates on Channel 4's Big Brother 6. Photograph: Channel 4/PA

"When I did it, it was awful. I just wanted to hide away after," said Musambasi. "I realised people really can't accredit anything else to black women but her body and in the Big Brother house there was no place for me as a smart black woman. They brought me into the house for my boobs and the script they had always intended for me was as a sexy black woman. The editing made that obvious - they showed me in the shower more than any other contestant, male or female."

In a damning piece for Black Ballad, its editor, Tobi Oredein, described how this series of Strictly had once again seen flawed and damaging stereotypes foisted on a black reality TV contestant. "The 'problem' the public has with Alexandra Burke exposes the hypocrisy and racism that still has tight grip around the neck of the British nation," she said.

Oredein said the treatment of Burke was indicative of how some members of the British public remained uncomfortable with a black woman outperforming the white contestants. "Alexandra is a self-assured black woman who is infiltrating a world of entertainment that is seen as an extremely white space," she added.

"To the British public, how can this black woman be better than her white counterparts, show emotion and be beautiful?"
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Alexandra Burke and the trouble with reality TV and race

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Leslie Jones, a start from ghostbusters, was being targeted by trolls on social media who were labelling and even relating her to "gorillas" and "apes".
When I first read this article my first interpretation of it was how media in general have engraved a specific image of what types of roles black women should be playing. This has corrupted  as they believe black women shouldn't be main characters but should be the bestfriend or the background person. Effectively, the way they react to situations similar to Leslie Jones is outrageous.

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Leslie Jones, one of the most visible and accessible stars in the all-female remake of the "Ghostbusters" movie, said that she would leave Twitter after becoming the target of online trolls who sent her a stream of pornography, racist speech and hateful memes.

Ms. Jones, who is black, and her white cast mates have endured months of criticism since the announcement of a reboot of the blockbuster franchise (so much has been written about the internet's outrage and gender-based criticism over the film that we won't rehash it here). But her frustration appeared to come to a head on Monday.

"Ok I have been called Apes," she wrote on Twitter, "even got a pic with semen on my face. I'm tryin to figure out what human means. I'm out."

The "Saturday Night Live" cast member and comedian spent the next few hours battling the trolls, at one point tangling with Milo Yiannopoulos, an advocate for the GamerGate group, whose supporters often send vile messages to women in the name of equal rights.

Several users compared her to primates, including Harambe, the male gorilla who was shot dead in May at a Cincinnati zoo. Others sent her pornography. Another created a fake Twitter account that appeared to show the actress spewing hateful language.

"You have to hate yourself to put out that type of hate," Ms. Jones wrote in the middle of the barrage. "I mean on my worst day I can't think of this type of hate to put out."

Paul Feig, director of the "Ghostbusters" reboot, spoke out in her defense on Twitter: "Leslie Jones is one of the greatest people I know. Any personal attacks against her are attacks against us all."

Mr. Feig used the hashtag #LoveforLeslieJ to send his message, which has been used by other celebrities, including Margaret Cho and William Shatner, to voice support. But Mr. Feig was met with a litany of criticism and trolling, including a fake Twitter account set up in his name that sent out racist tweets.

"Maybe you should've thought about that before going with a marketing campaign that focused around attacking men?" one person wrote.

Emails to Mr. Feig and Ms. Jones seeking comment were not immediately answered on Tuesday.

The episode raises an important question: If one of Hollywood's most visible actresses can be publicly harassed and pushed to the point of wanting to leave Twitter, while pleading with the platform to make changes, what will it take to stop the abuse?

Twitter's blanket response when high-profile individuals are the targets of internet trolls has been criticized as wholly ineffective. In June, Jonathan Weisman, an editor for The New York Times, left Twitter after receiving a barrage of anti-Semitic tweets, writing that "Twitter appears determined to ignore its own terms of service, which also include a blanket prohibition on pornography."

In Ms. Jones's case, Jack Dorsey, a founder of Twitter, publicly reached out to her, but his message didn't seem to be enough to get her to stay.

"I leave Twitter tonight with tears and a very sad heart," Ms. Jones wrote two hours after Mr. Dorsey's message. "All this cause I did a movie."

On Tuesday, Twitter said in a statement: "This type of abusive behavior is not permitted on Twitter, and we've taken action on many of the accounts reported to us by both Leslie and others.

"We rely on people to report this type of behavior to us, but we are continuing to invest heavily in improving our tools and enforcement systems to prevent this kind of abuse. We realize we still have a lot of work in front of us before Twitter is where it should be on how we handle these issues."

Later, Twitter barred Mr. Yiannopoulos, a technology editor at the conservative news site Breitbart who is known by his Twitter handle, @Nero, and said it had taken "enforcement actions" against other accounts that had violated its policies.

Many stars have also learned that fame and accessibility on social media do not necessarily mix, and that reacting to the trolls only energizes them. Still, Ms. Jones, who is known to react to her critics online, has not shied away from fighting back.

In June, in a Times interview with the cast, Mr. Feig remarked that other co-stars were shielded from the outrage against the movie and the casting because they weren't on social media. "Leslie and I get in the muck," he said. "We're brawlers down in the digital mud."

Last month, the actress was criticized after she tweeted that no designers were willing to dress her for the "Ghostbusters" premiere. The designer Christian Siriano stepped in, but not before Ms. Jones, who is 6 feet tall, was subject to an online debate over whether she deserved a free dress.

This time, the fight may have been won by a small group of nameless trolls, spreading hate on a platform that has been effectively protecting them.

"I use to wonder why some celebs don't have Twitter accounts," Ms. Jones wrote, "now I know."

Correction:

An earlier version of this article misstated where Harambe, a gorilla, was killed. It was at a Cincinnati zoo, not a Cleveland zoo.

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From my point of view black girls/ women are always seen to be coming from a rough background, which leads them on a bad path into life.
having watched this film as a part of my research I've realized that the black girl is always seen to be confrontational , loud argumentative and in my opinion the "sapphire" has a huge part to play in the way black women are portrayed.

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The star TV talk-show hostess Oprah Winfrey has been involved over the years in three significant movies based on celebrated novels by black authors. In 1985, she appeared as a natural rebel alongside Whoopi Goldberg in Steven Spielberg's skilful, soft-centred adaptation of Alice Walker's The Color Purple about the oppression of black women in the Deep South, the need for sisterhood and the romance of Africa.

In 1998, she produced and starred in Jonathan Demme's film of Toni Morrison's Beloved. In this ambitious failure, Winfrey played the runaway slave who kills her baby rather than see her recaptured by white pursuers and, a decade after the Civil War, is haunted by the child's ghost. Now she is the co-producer of Lee Daniels's Precious, adapted by Geoffrey Fletcher from Push, the bestselling 1996 novel by Ramona Lofton, the writer and performance poet who styles herself "Sapphire".

Made on a much smaller budget, Precious is a simpler, tougher work than the two preceding films and altogether more effective. The setting is Harlem in 1987, the central character the obese 16-year-old black girl Claireece Jones, known as "Precious", unforgettably played in her first professional role by the vast, imposing Gabourey Sidibe, daughter of a New York gospel singer and a Senegalese father. Precious is illiterate, aggressive, constantly tormented by fellow high-school pupils and abused, both physically and verbally by her alcoholic mother and father. She has a daughter with Down's syndrome by her father, who constantly rapes her with the mother's connivance and is pregnant again by him. Later, it's revealed that the father has died of Aids.

You might well ask who is in the market for such a film and one thinks of Eliot's smug statement: "Humankind cannot bear much reality" and those newsreaders who preface horrendous reports from Haiti with the warning: "There are scenes some viewers may find disturbing." But over the years there have been a number of highly acclaimed pictures of this kind. Just after the Second World War, for instance, there was a widely shown Danish picture called Ditte, Child of Man, about the unremittingly miserable life of an illegitimate, working-class girl with a drunken mother, a brutal stepfather who was raised in poverty, seduced and abandoned.

The following year, in 1947, Rossellini's Germany, Year Zero, the most despairing of neorealist movies, charted the destruction of a 13-year-old orphan in the ruins of Berlin. More recently, there's Robert Bresson's religious allegory Mouchette (1967), about the endless humiliations heaped upon a teenage country girl in a remote French community that ends with her suicide. But these were art-house productions aimed at middle-class audiences, not from Hollywood and targeting mainstream viewers.

Precious certainly is unflinching in the presentation of its heroine's life and prospects. The brief impressionistic scenes in which she's raped are horrendous and the confrontations with her mother Mary (a performance of extraordinary courage by the stand-up comedienne Mo'Nique) tear at one's guts through their language and their violence.

But from very early on, Precious invites our sympathy, her first aggressive act being an attack on two boys who disrespect a white teacher she admires. She has an inner life in which she imagines herself a star. Worthy of a love she can't find, she's struggling to find meaning in her life.

An understanding principal arranges for her to go to a special school that offers remedial education through a programme called Each One/Teach One, where she encounters an sympathetic teacher and some fellow outsiders. The teacher, Ms Rain (Paula Patton), helps her come to terms with her life through writing about it and to learn she is capable of being loved. The girls in her new class are all bruised and scarred in different ways and involve her in volatile exchanges that are sometimes violent, but also roughly comic. A lot of the film is, indeed, edgily funny, as in a moment where the other girls laugh when Precious says "insect" instead of "incest" and she comes back: "Are you a scientist now?"

Another practitioner of tough love (or what we used to call being cruel only to be kind) is a perceptive social worker, Mrs Weiss (Mariah Carey), whose ethnic identity and social background intrigue Precious. Weiss presides over a final confrontation in her office between Precious and her mother. Earlier, we've seen Mary deceive an easily convinced welfare inspector into believing she's a loving mother. Now, the mother is drawn into a confessional breakdown, explaining how she came to persecute her daughter; Mo'Nique's handling of the moment is a tour de force.

There are other revealing and moving scenes. Precious, for instance, is introduced to the notion of organic food (though it doesn't take) by a thoughtful male nurse. His job is as much a revelation to her as the discovery that Ms Rain is in a stable lesbian relationship. More than incidentally, there is on the wall of the gay couple's apartment a poster for the surprise 1976 Broadway hit, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf, Ntozake Shange's landmark "choreo poem" about the social and moral empowerment of African-American women. The show no doubt influenced Sapphire as a writer.

Precious ends on an affirmative note that is sufficiently hopeful to let the audience leave the cinema without rushing to find a strong drink or a lethal dose of arsenic, but is yet consistent with its heroine's situation. The film does not, however, address itself to any larger social context. We have experienced a story, not read a case history.

The excellent cinematography, mostly raw but on occasion appropriately romantic, is the work of the British cameraman, Andrew Dunn, whose films include Gosford Park and the original BBC series Edge of Darkness.
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The star TV talk-show hostess Oprah Winfrey has been involved over the years in three significant movies based on celebrated novels by black authors. In 1985, she appeared as a natural rebel alongside Whoopi Goldberg in Steven Spielberg's skilful, soft-centred adaptation of Alice Walker's The Color Purple about the oppression of black women in the Deep South, the need for sisterhood and the romance of Africa.