Black Face In Australia (movies, skit, character, Australian)
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I've always admired him and he has given me more reasons to like him.
Harry Connick Jr. was just exposed on E!'s Daily 10 as also performing in a racially insensitive skit on Mad TV a few years back. He was doing a skit portraying a stereotypical black preacher. I'll see if I can find the video for you guys.
Harry Connick Jr. was just exposed on E!'s Daily 10 as also performing in a racially insensitive skit on Mad TV a few years back. He was doing a skit portraying a stereotypical black preacher. I'll see if I can find the video for you guys.
As an African-American I can tell you there's a BIG difference between someone disguising themselves as another racial character(it's been done for years by every Shakesperian portraying Othello or Anthony Quinn in every other one of his movies) and someone promoting a stereotype of a people.
Even people of color were forced to perform in blackface back in the good ol' days of Jim Crow because that was the only way the racist audience could accept them--as a sterotype. I saw the Mad TV skit and it was kinda funny. The blackface portrayal in Australia-NOT!
an interesting side bar ; "Negro Minstrels" were very popular in Australia during the Victorian era. Most Black professional performing groups were more accepted in Australia than they were in the US so much so that one group returned to the US with a some Australians who joined their group at a time when it was unheard of for Blacks and whites to perform, work or travel together. http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/images..._minstrels.jpg
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