Great singing, ugly makeup! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok5R9wDc44k
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shareA perfect example of racism and white supremacy in the United States for those in denial.
shareSo the black Little Mermaid is also racist? Right?
shareYou're deflecting.
Minstrel = racist & white supremacy
Using your own logic this is black supremacy and racist towards white people. Funny how that works!
shareYou're deflecting.
Minstrel = racist & white supremacy
Woke Activists are such idiots
share"Woke is an adjective derived from African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) meaning "alert to racial prejudice and discrimination"."
Only a racist would be against fighting racism and injustice.
“Woke” is false virtue signaling, as well as being excessively fragile and overly sensitive to issues regarding race, gender, orientation, etc. to the point of creating a problem where there isn’t one to begin with.
shareTell that to the families of victims who were shot to death during attacks by white supremacists.
shareIt was a different time, man. We are moved way past these days.
shareWhite supremacists murdered black people in a church, store and on the street while others ban books written by black authors. A few days ago, a black mother of four was killed by a racist who shouted the N-word at her. Denial of racism is racist.
shareI don't deny there was, and is, racism. But wearing blackface in Garland's time is very different than wearing it today. You don't have a clue who you are talking to when you make a comment like that.
share"We are moved way past these days."
Not really. It's still exists today. I used to see it a lot on Spanish language shows when I watched them.
https://www.wlrn.org/news/2018-09-21/another-spanish-language-play-in-miami-removes-character-in-blackface
It hasn't went anywhere. Only less frequent and underground. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was in blackface, too.
What I'm saying is that it's finally socially unacceptable to be racist. That is key to reducing racism. When Garland lived, it was no big deal to be racist. Now, you're a pariah if you're a bigot/racist, as it should be. We are on the right path. It just takes time.
shareThen, you don't understand how racism works. Racism is still systemic in the U.S. including in housing, voter suppression, education, medical care, job opportunities, criminal justice, etc.. Any progress is always met with intense backlash to restore racism.
For instance, end of slavery and Reconstruction progress were met with Jim Crow, black codes and lynchings. Civil Rights legislation was met with chipping away of all its legislation, mass incarceration and attacks on programs and initiatives to end racism and create diversity.
"Nixon Adviser Admits War on Drugs Was Designed to Criminalize Black People:
Nixon declared a “war on drugs” in 1971, the number of people incarcerated in American jails and prisons escalated from 300,000 to 2.3 million."
"We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or Black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and Blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”
https://eji.org/news/nixon-war-on-drugs-designed-to-criminalize-black-people/
"The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness" by Michelle Alexander
Civil rights legislation gave blacks rights which are then removed when you have a criminal record like voting, housing, being hired, etc..
"you're a pariah if you're a bigot/racist"
You don't have to be a racist to practice racism since it's systemic. For instance, books written by black authors and history are being banned in schools now. The poem written and recited at Biden's inauguration was banned.
Teachers are forced to not discuss black history nor allow their students to read banned books. It's similar when whites were not allowed to sell their houses to blacks because of housing covenants and federal segregation laws. Whites who lived on the same block as blacks were forced to move and some sued, but lost.
"The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America" by Richard Rothstein
I'm confident neither Garland nor the producers of the film intended the blackface number as an expression of contempt for black people. In all probability, nothing of the sort crossed their minds. I think most black people who saw it, at that time, regarded it more as silly than as offensive. My only objection to it is that she looks ridiculous. Why did they always do the white lips? If blackface is to be excoriated, it should be on grounds of corniness, rather than racism.
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