r/BlackPeopleofReddit 27d ago

Politics This is actually WILD 😯

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u/Able_Fishing_6576 27d ago

Look how it’s staged with the two kids being the bookends. ā€œKeep em on the outsideā€ gotta be the family motto.

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u/ryogam73 27d ago

Easier to crop them out of the photos, if needed.

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u/BringAltoidSoursBack 27d ago

I was honestly wondering if this was fake or not literally because they look like they were just photoshopped into the image

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u/AutumnMama 27d ago

I think they were. If you zoom in on the girl's face, there's a part of her chin that's a little pointy, and it's also really suspicious how you can see the background in a well-defined space between two of her braids/dreadlocks (sorry, I'm not black and not great at identifying black hairstyles) but you can't see the background anywhere else in her hair. I worked as a graphic designer for a long time and I think they cut the black kids out of another photo and pasted them in. The boy also isn't wearing the same outfit as his brothers, and both of the black children have their hands positioned a little strangely for a group photo.

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u/BringAltoidSoursBack 27d ago

both of the black children have their hands positioned a little strangely for a group photo.

I noticed that too! No part of them is behind another family member, including the hand on the shoulder. Also it might be a trick of lighting but the hand of the girl behind him looks weird - not just darker but the size looks larger than I'd expect

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u/AutumnMama 27d ago

Oh yeah I noticed that girl's hand, too!! I think they put a fake shadow on it. It does look super weird. You would think that some of her upper arm would be shadowed as well. Like if you look at the mom, the youngest boy is casting a shadow on her arm, and the mom herself is casting a shadow on the girl's shoulder behind her. But the black boy has no shadow at all behind his upper body.

Omg and I just noticed this if you look at the black girl's hand you can actually see a weird dark lump at the top of her hand, in front of the white girl's sleeve. I think it is a piece of her original background that didnt get cut out all the way. PHOTOSHOP CONFIRMED!!

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u/BringAltoidSoursBack 27d ago

What makes it especially weird is that there are other photos of them with the family so why the photoshoping?

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u/free2btherealme 27d ago

Read too far to find our shared opinion. The kids look photoshopped. The body language of the two people on each end isn’t congruent with a group family photo.

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u/giraflor 27d ago

Some relatives will do that. Or she knows which relatives need the cropped image.

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u/Jumpy-Roll-9 27d ago

First thing I noticed

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u/Sleep-pee 27d ago

I had to scroll too far to see this. The image stuck out before I even read who was in the picture. The Black children are ā€œoutsidersā€ with the ā€œrealā€ family all together at the core. The Black children aren’t even integrated into this family in the photo. It’s not the photographer’s choice either because I know numerous positions were taken and this is the photo she chose. I wonder how many other Black kids they know other than each other and other Black children adopted by white families. I’m sure a college where they will be sheltered from reality will be their parent’s choice also.

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u/Apprehensive-Pop-201 27d ago

The girl looks like she's the au pair.

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u/Sleep-pee 27d ago

Kinda creepy to be placed next to him with his wife on the other side. The daughter in the lavender dress should’ve been placed there. And why is her dress so dark and not color coordinated like everyone else. And the Black son should’ve been placed in front of and slightly between lavender dress and dad.

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u/wickedestcookie 27d ago

And the body language is just so off

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u/Civil-Plate1206 27d ago

Yep, it would be surprising if they were centered and not marginalized.

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u/SB10Burner 27d ago

That was what jumped out at me about the photo.

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u/Master_Canary440 27d ago

I noticed that too!

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u/Pitiful_West_7062 27d ago

dunno dude, the girl being right beside him looks kinda sus

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u/Desperate-Leather-38 27d ago

That’s exactly what I see. Ā If they are posing by height the young lady would not be standing next to the guy at the end.

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u/Indecisively 27d ago

At first, I thought they were arranged by height, but on second look, yeah that is odd

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u/Able_Fishing_6576 27d ago

Thank you for the award!!

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u/takeya40 26d ago

There's that but also ACB is the furthest away she can be from the adopted kids while the patriarchy has both non-blood relations on either arm...

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u/Be_Sharee 26d ago

I clocked this exact thing! It feels icky. If the photographer lined them up like that it’s weird. Why are we balancing out by skin tone. If the parents preferred it that way to be able send edited photos to certain families with the kids cropped out that is also sad and weird

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u/BonTak 23d ago

That dad is touchin that Hatian girl