blackface
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Just Book a Black Girl: Model Gigi Hadid Faces Accusations of Blackface (Again)
(This is an open letter to Gigi Hadid.) Gigi, you in danger, girl. You are in danger of having to issue an apology every time you work with your friends at Italian Vogue if you don’t start checking them when they start trying to slap bronzer and Afro wigs over your blond, blue-eyed beauty. Because…
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Atlanta Charter School Apologizes for 2nd-Grade Blackface Show in the Year of Our Lord 2018
This week, between that Heineken ad, Roseanne’s nonacting ass being back on TV (notably on the same network pandering to “unheard white working-class America” and yet nixing a Black-ish episode about NFL players kneeling) and now a minstrel show at an elementary school, I think wypipo are pranking us with overt racism followed by, “Who,…
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1st Mistake: Robbing a Casino on the Strip in Blackface
If you ever consider robbing a casino on the Las Vegas Strip, please do not compound the idiocy of your crime by doing it in blackface. People watch Ocean’s 11 and whatever that stupid Kevin Spacey movie was where the kids were counting cards at the blackjack table and think taking down a casino is…
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China Dismisses Criticism Over Blackface Sketch During Lunar New Year TV Gala
China is turning a blind eye to criticism its media faced after an Asian actress appeared in blackface during a comedy routine on China’s biggest Lunar New Year TV show. Instead the country is flipping the situation around on critics, claiming that people are trying to undermine relations between China and Africa. According to Reuters,…
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Samba and Misogynoir: Will 2018 Be the Last Year of Blackface in Brazil’s Carnival?
The United States isn’t the only country with a bad case of “blackface.” Brazil has its own version of blackface, and it is most often on display during Carnival, when some revelers sometimes dress up as “Nega Maluca,” translated as “crazy black woman” in Portuguese. During this year’s Carnival in Brazil, blackface made an appearance…
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PTA in NYC Catches Heat for Using Blackface Photo for Fundraiser Message in the Year of Our Lord 2018
The Facebook post seemed innocuous enough. The parent-teacher association for Public School 118, The Maurice Sendak Community School, in Brooklyn, N.Y., had settled on a theme for its fundraiser: “Speakeasy.” The announcement, posted in January, came with an image broadcasting the date of the event and some 1920s Prohibition-era photos for the themed event. The…
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Sorry, Santa—‘Jingle Bells’ Has Racist Roots
We know that the third stanza of “The Star-Spangled Banner” is racist, and the children’s song “Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe” is also suspect, but a Boston professor is now saying that “Jingle Bells” might as well be called “Jungle Boogie.” OK—she never said that, but theater historian Kyra Hamill did discover that the beloved Christmas…
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Everything but the Burden: Why We’re Done Getting Mad Over Makeup
Here we go again: Another day, another blackface makeup tutorial. Cue the moral outrage … and another horrible human goes viral. Today’s transgressor is @notcatart, a Russian-speaking makeup hacker who claims to “love skin of all colors”—which likely inspired this idiocy, after he apparently ran out of other looks and cultures to imitate. Of course,…
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Why Are You Like This? Thirsty White Makeup Artist Doubles Down on Blackface
If you thought, with the passing of Halloween, that we were safely out of blackface season, you thought wrong. One white makeup artist is making waves on social media this week after posting an ignorant—and chalky as fuck—makeup transformation that shows him morphing from a pasty white boy to a pasty white boy wearing blackface…
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Deputy Sheriff Under Fire for Blackface Frederica Wilson Halloween Costume Because Whiteness Might Be a Mental Illness
The NAACP has issued a complaint against a Virginia sheriff’s deputy who works in the school system after she donned blackface and dressed up as Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.) to accompany her boyfriend, who was dressed up as Donald Trump, to a Halloween party. I know—there is so much wrong with that previous sentence, but…