Once upon a time, black performers weren’t really a thing. What you had were white people covering their faces with makeup to sort of appear black, then performing as a caricature of black people. There were a lot of reasons why blackface was a terrible thing, but this caricature aspect may be among the worst.
My profile pic is usually an alien or a cat. Is that digital Martianface or catface? Seriously, these motherfuckers are walking advertisements for chlorpromazine (Thorazine).
I'd call the CNN article "Clownshow", but having grown up in the broadcast shadow of WGN I don't want to disrespect Bozo with the comparison.
My profile pic is usually an alien or a cat. Is that digital Martianface or catface? Seriously, these motherfuckers are walking advertisements for chlorpromazine (Thorazine).