blackface
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Girl, Bye: Megyn Kelly Dropped by CAA, Expected to End Megyn Kelly Today by End of Season
Whew, life comes at you fast. If Santa Claus is indeed white, Megyn Kelly is obviously on his “naughty” list given that, according to The Hollywood Reporter, Kelly will likely be ending her hour of the Today show by the close of the current season. Surprisingly, this was reportedly in the works before her now-infamous…
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Today Addresses Megyn Kelly's Blackface Comments; Kelly Tearfully Apologizes
It had to be an awkward morning around the Today Show studios in New York City, as cast and crew struggled with how to address the white elephant in the room, Megyn Kelly. Kelly’s deeply troubling comments on her Tuesday morning show, which seemed to defend the use of blackface in Halloween costumes, sparked outrage…
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Megyn Kelly Is A Professional White Woman
“Who here is white?” asked Miss Sumpter, the 3rd-grade social studies teacher at Millbrooks Elementary School in Champaign, Ill., to her students while conducting a mock census. Each hand in the all-white classroom limped up, confirming their whiteness, though most of the students were just slightly confused by Miss Sumpter’s question. Well, each hand except…
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This Is Scary: Megyn Kelly Says ‘Blackface Was OK’ for Halloween in Her Childhood [Updated]
Can somebody keep Megyn Kelly from weighing in on holidays? After all, this is the woman who, while an anchor at Fox News, insisted Santa is and could only ever be white—and that the same is true of Jesus. Now, the Wicked Witch of NBC is unleashing new horrors upon us, just in time for…
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Australian Athletes Donned Full-Body Blackface to Impersonate Williams Sisters
An Australian Rules Football (AFL) club had to apologize this week after three of its players donned full-body blackface to impersonate Venus and Serena Williams, as well as a Kenyan-born AFL player, Aliir Aliir. The photos were taken last week during “Mad Monday,” a celebratory day marking the end of the AFL season. According to…
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Whose Hand is This? Korean Company Gets Inclusivity Wrong with a Blackface Manicure
When keeping it inclusive goes wrong: popular Korean beauty and fashion company Stylenanda’s heart was likely in the right place when it attempted to show diversity in a nail polish ad by placing a brown hand next to a much paler one. But something was a little … off. If you’re still guessing what’s wrong…
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Purdue Professor Proudly Posts Photo in Blackface But Faces No Consequences Because of Free ‘Speech’
The obsession with blackface has to stop. Thank God I went to an HBCU, where the majority of my professors were black and the few white professors I did have never tried any foolishness. But over at Purdue University, Lisa Stillman, an instructor in the biology department, put up an old pic from 2016 of…
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GOP Senate Candidate Who Dressed as a Blackface ‘Rapper’ Issues Half-Assed Apology, Points Out His Black Friends
Hal Patton is the current mayor of Edwardsville, Ill. He’s also a GOP state Senate candidate, and he’s an asshole who either doesn’t understand why blackface is bad or doesn’t care. A Halloween photo of Patton dressed as a “rapper” is making the rounds. According to the Belleville News-Democrat, the photo was taken some 10…
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Well, Damn! Pusha T Responds to Drake With ‘The Story of Adidon.’ Here Are 10 Quick Thoughts
It took a few days, but Push back. Over Jay-Z’s “The Story of O.J.” instrumental, Pusha T responded to Drake’s “Duppy Freestyle” (itself a response to Pusha T’s “Infrared”) with a savage diss record called “The Story of Adidon.” Bruh, King Push was on his Roy Jones Jr. “Y’all must have forgot!” steez. Let the…
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South Carolina County Council Candidate Posed in Blackface; Community Outraged, but The Root Staff Is Unimpressed
When it comes to blackface, it’s going to take more than a little black shoe polish to rile up the staff at The Root. We’ve seen them all: the racist tributes to sports heroes, the racist tributes to actresses, singers and anyone else famous. We’ve seen the racist attempts at just plain racism. We’ve seen…