Such a Beautiful Black Woman
Jenny Jackson interview with the Huffington Post:
Jackson said the significance of her role in breaking down racial boundaries did not dawn on her at the time.
“I never looked at it like that. I guess I was the first, but in Chicago we had black doctors, dentists and businessmen living in our neighborhood,” she said.
Jackson also said she had felt ashamed of the photographs for decades until she went to a reunion with other playmates more than 30 years after her centerfold was published.
“My mother didn’t say anything and my father didn’t say anything, except that he got a key to the [Playboy] club,” Jackson told The Huffington Post. “But it was a shock to my sisters because I didn’t tell anyone until after I took the picture. And I didn’t feel proud of it; I was kind of ashamed of it for a long time, until I went to the Playmate reunion in 1999. And I’m glad that I went, because it was like a closure.”
Jackson told The Huffington Post she was no longer ashamed of her past. She also said she not have a particularly close relationship with Hefner, describing him simply as “the boss.”
I was extremely excited to see this sistah, Jenny as the first black Playmate not because she graced the cover of Playboy magazine. But for the simple fact that she was comfortable in her own skin as a black woman. With so many of us black women having issues loving the skin we're in, then you, Jenny Jackson come along with the courage to take it off (my kind of girl) and show the world black is indeed beautiful. I'm sure their were many black women in 1965 that was proud of Jenny Jackson, like I am now in 2017. However, she do fit the white woman body type. I realize that this took place in 1965 and black women in all her glory of ass, hips, thighs and natural hair wasn't mainstream acceptance (now, we got bitches building themselves a black woman's body) and still really isn't... Black women love the skin your in, your Beautiful.
I salute you, Jenny Jackson!
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