A Canadian white man cosplays in blackface for a summer instead of just interviewing black people about their lived experiences. To then the write a book about your cosplay experience and claim it to be the most important book on race relations is true colonizer behavior.
2 kids were expelled from their private California school, had their names dragged through the mud, and were vilified and defamed after they used a dark green acne cream.
Black Like Me came out in 1961! And that book was already trash. Here we are just 63 years later and this dude is trying to do a reboot of this blackface bullshit.
63 years and White Men still won't just talk to and BELIEVE Black people about their experiences. GTFOH.
So, y'all just gonna stay silent while Pearl from RuPaul's Drag Race posts photos of themself in Blackface, all the while other non-Black queens were hyping it up like it wasn't clearly blackface?
Yall be telling on your biases when you defend this bs. A Japanese woman w/a darker tan, long acrylics, braids, & jumbo lashes: 'shes trying to be ugly/rebel.' OK so you admit, she using misogynoir & blackface (like ganguros) to rebel & 'be ugly' in conservative antiblack Japan.
Or, hear me out here, maybe we can read the work of Black people sharing their experiences being Black in America instead of the musings of a white journalist wearing blackface? I mean, Legacy is right there!
Al Roker on Megyn Kelly’s blackface apology: “While she apologized to the staff, she owes a bigger apology to folks of color around the country because this is a history going back to the 1830s. Minstrel shows to demean and denigrate a race wasn’t right.”
