This will probably get pulled but who cares.
Is it different from what the head of the Seattle NAACP did?
Hot stuff!
Otis was born to Greek immigrants Alexander J. Veliotes, a Mare Island longshoreman and grocery store owner, and his wife, the former Irene Kiskakes, a painter.[1][4] He had a younger sister, Dorothy, and a younger brother, Nicholas A. Veliotes, former U.S. Ambassador to both Jordan (1978–1981) and Egypt (1984–1986)). He grew up in a predominantly black neighborhood in Berkeley, California, where his father owned a neighborhood grocery store. Otis became well known for his choice to live his professional and personal life as a member of the African-American community.[5][6][7] He wrote, "As a kid I decided that if our society dictated that one had to be black or white, I would be black."[8]
Blackface predated Al Jolson, he is just the most famous singer who used it. Jolson strongly supported the black entertainers and was instrumental in getting Cab Calloway’s career going. They did a great duet in the intro to the movie “the singing kid.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfiftuUUV8Y
The movie, The Jolson Story (1946), is a good way to enjoy Al Jolson’s songs. Larry Parks plays Al Jolson and lip synchs his songs. See if you can spot the part where the real Jolson appears. In his time, Jolson was publicly honored as the world’s greatest entertainer. He was enormously popular to generations and indefatigable in entertaining the GIs in WWII and Korea to bolster morale. He died in 1950 from the exhaustion of his Korea tour.