CNN Says No Digital Blackface For White People (speech, compared, state)
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But yet same types will blindly go to Popeyes Chicken because they used a Black woman in their advertising but yet it's a White guy that created and owns the franchise.
Smart man. I once read about a low level political candidate (white) who sent mailers out that had images of black people on it. He won the election due to the help of black people.
I got a mailer before my city council elections from a male gay ex military republican, I can only imagine the heads that exploded!
In a sense. It's what I've been saying about all these movies, Disney especially, that are taking classically white characters and putting a Black face on them, and was like, isn't this a form of racism? I'm starting to wonder if it's an inside joke among the elite to see how many people will fall for it. Good news, most Black people don't care. Just because the character has a Black face doesn't mean that a Black American is going to have any relation to this person. Heck, it's probably why I like the Ninja Turtles over Cinderella. I have way more in common with them than I would Cinderella.
Maybe you shared that viral video of Kimberly “Sweet Brown” Wilkins telling a reporter after narrowly escaping an apartment fire, “Ain’t nobody got time for that!”
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If you’re Black and you’ve shared such images online, you get a pass. But if you’re White, you may have inadvertently perpetuated one of the most insidious forms of contemporary racism.
You may be wearing “digital blackface.”
Digital blackface is a practice where White people co-opt online expressions of Black imagery, slang, catchphrases or culture to convey comic relief or express emotions.
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critics say digital blackface is wrong because it’s a modern-day repackaging of minstrel shows, a racist form of entertainment popular in the 19th century. That’s when White actors, faces darkened with burnt cork, entertained audiences by playing Black characters as bumbling, happy-go-lucky simpletons. That practice continued in the 20th century on hit radio shows such as “Amos ‘n’ Andy.”
Just when you think it can't get any stupider...
Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben's, Cream of Wheat were obviously ahead of the curve in removing their images.
If black people didn't play into it just as hard, he might have a point.
Although there were a few real black performers who painted their faces "extra" black in order to be permitted to perform, black people themselves were never entertained by minstrel shows and always found them demeaning.
And that's a big difference that makes using those kinds of memes not the same thing as minstrel shows.
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