I LOVED THIA EPISODE IT WAS MY FAVORITE!!!!
i'm black/spainard(excuse my spelling if wrong) and i wasn;t at all offended i love the fact she was celebrating mixed cultures my whole group of friend are halfies as we like to call ourselved and we take so much pride in it.i;m sick of everything being turned into race from models,the princess and the frog,and to transformers if you ask a majoruty of these races that are so called being offended they say what the hell does that have to do with black face in black face there faces are literally black with red over exagerrated lips shown to be uneducated and comical so where in the hell did you see BLACKFACE at any point wake upp people stop living in the past and move on.

another thing they werent even all portraying african americans mixed with something esle you dense idiots
sheesh

yea...go on tip toeing around. When you get politically correct like that..when you follow the guidelines of al sharpton and jesse jackson..even "honest" mistakes will be built up into terrible errors......heads will roll..

Give me a BREAK!!! There was nothing wrong with the episode of the girls doing the PHOTO SHOOT with dark makeup. These people complaining about anything and everything needs to stop. Get medication or get a life. There is so much nit picking about nothing, this is a good show leave it alone.

It is okay Tyra. The people complaining are the ones with problems.

Offended? I'm offended by the idiocy of the ANTM show. I'm also offended by people who wear clothes that don't fit and by people who drive those ugly "Element" cars. So what????? This world is getting insane with all this political correctness. My advice is to grow up and get a thicker skin.......of the right color of course!

Wow! I'm happy to be able to speak out and have an opinion. That is most important to me! Who cares what background or ethnic group you come from, especially what your skin color is. Beauty comes in all forms, shapes, sizes, and obviously colors! For all those of you loud and proud people who were offended by Tyra's bi-racial episode take a chill pill! It was artsy and simply spectacular! Those negative comments just straight-out come out as pure jealousy and ignorance! Sounds to me like you guys have bigger inner issues to resolve if this type of thing struck-a-chord Remember people its entertainment! Kudos Tyra!

I dont believe tyras idea was intentionally racist, but with all the models who are biracial trying to break into the modeling world, it would make sense to cast them and not do this as a way to present their beauty, etc

It's just T.V.! ENTERTAINMENT!!!! don't get sucked into it. RELAX, BE HAPPY!

to me i dont see anything wrong in what they did with the faces.. if your going to model and are asked to do it .. if your not offended by what your doing.. nothing wrong with it.. there was no mocking or trying to belittle the models.. it was all done tastefully.. but TYRA if you feel the need to say sorry then hats off to you.. but in my eyes you did not wrong.. an i am a white woman.. this world has come to picking on anything an anybody just to get a rib out of the media.. what ever happened to just being able to live an work.. i am so dishearten over having to suffer with the economy why do others have to focus on things that to me are meaningless..

Amen sister! Nice comment!

I don't find what she did offensive. They were in Hawaii and celebrating hapas. I don't know why anyone but bi-racials are getting their nose into this because as an African-American female it doesn't concern me or anyone else. I can under stand bi-racial models being upset because Tyra eaily could have used them instead of " painting" some girls. Still in the end, she was simply celebrating culture. People often look down on people who are bi-racials and she was showing how great and interesting they are. So all of of you adults out there who are making a big issue about this should feel immature, because a highschool sophomore can think about this more reasonably.

every one is "mixed race". no matter the color of one's skin, EVERY one has different blood lines of different peoples running through their veins. i don't care how light or dark some one's skin is. every one can trace their ancestry to many different groups, cultures, etc. of people. to say some one with a black father and white mother is "bi-racial" is erroneous. first of all, there is no such thing as "bi" racial. every body has more than two "races" of people in their genetic make up. secondly, white and black people each have several different blood lines. so every single person on this earth is MULTI racial.... which people would know if they traced their ancestry all the way back to the beginning, or at least as far back as possible.

Just so you know, "Hapa" is NOT a Happy Word, and belongs in the same category that the "N" word or Mulatto is in. Hawaiians happen to be the most racist of all Americans, and hate White Americans as much as they hate Black Americans, and if it were up to them, would rather align themselves with other Asian countries and Kick America to the curb, (Although they would still want us to fly there and spend our money, as long as we left all the Poorer for our intrusion into their paradise!).
I guess when you have a Limited education, Hapa sounds alot like Happy, and that makes it alright.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hapa
In the Hawaiian language, hapa is defined as: portion, fragment, part, fraction, installment; to be partial, less. It is a loan from the English word half. However, in Hawaiian Pidgin (the creole spoken by many Hawai'i residents), hapa has an extended meaning of "half-caste" or "of mixed descent". Mary Pukui & Samuel Ebert's Hawaiian Dictionary define hapa as: "of mixed blood, person of mixed blood as in hapa hawai'i, part Hawaiian." [See: Pukui, Mary Kawena, and Samuel H. Ebert, Hawaiian Dictionary, Revised and enlarged edition, University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu HI, 1986] The word hapa has moved into mainland English.

Used without qualification, hapa is often taken to mean "part White", and is short hand for hapa haole. The term can be used in conjunction with other Hawaiian racial and ethnic descriptors to specify a particular racial or ethnic mixture. Examples of this include:

* hapa haole (part Caucasian/white)
* hapa kanaka (part Hawaiian)
* hapa popolo (part African/black)
* hapa kepani (part Japanese); the term hapanese is also encountered
* hapa pilipino (part Filipino)
* hapa pake (part Chinese)
* hapa kolea (part Korean)
* hapa kamoa (part Samoan)
* hapa pukiki (part Portuguese/white)

Mary Pukui states that the original meaning of the word haole is "foreigner." Therefore, all non-Hawaiians are technically haole. In practical terms, however, the term is used as described here as a racial description with the specific exclusion of Portuguese. Portuguese are traditionally considered to be a separate "race" in Hawaii. [See: Pukui, Mary Kawena, and Samuel H. Ebert, Hawaiian Dictionary, Revised and enlarged edition University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu HI, 1986]

Hey Tyra, new time just get some bi racial models, less controversy! Can I pick them, starting line up, my beautiful wife!

When are people going to wake up to the plight of we multi-racial individuals. I am offended at everything because I am European, American Indian, have some latino/hispanic/mexican or whatever the hell they call it these days and I am sure a little bit of everything so I take special attention to anything that might label me as anything be it white stereo typing, redneck jokes, someone saying "how" as a slight against my American Indian heritage. I even get offended at myself sometimes. We need to wake up and stop celebrqating diversity because it is exactly that acknowldegment that we are different that offends us so much! I mean for crying out loud; a person uses make-up to appear to have darker skin and it offends the dark skin people. Is it really that horrific to look at? I always thought darker skin was attractive but evidently it must be my european heritage that does not make me enraged over the idea of someone trying to look like me but its funny because all those beach goers looking for a tan are evidently some of the most racist among us yet we don't scream in horror over this. Why is that?

well 1 she did this before in other seasons so why does it matter now and 2 she not trying to protray black people not all black people are brown and so what im glad she did it alll you see on t.v are white people not enough brown my lil sister sad to say wants to be white cause thats all she sees on t.v and so what if tyra puts blonde hair its not because she trying to be white what does it matter its a hair color if a white person dyes there hair black are they trying to be black no so thats a double standard and you have to be white to have green eyes no i mean cmon get real what most of these comments say dont make any sense white people are able to shine all the time in this industry let the brown shine 2 times are changeing its not all about whites get used to it