Why is it white men in black face is offensive, but the Wayans brothers in white face in a movie titled “White Chicks”, isn’t offensive?
FX has been playing “White Chicks” like it’s the only movie they own, and frankly I find that more than a little offensive.
I guess the "family hit pieces" on Sarah Palin & family could be classified as acceptable buffoonery.
That quote just appears all wrong to me.
“White Chicks” is actually a very funny movie. I just watched the video this article is about, and I think people are missing the joke there. They kind of put a twist on the older version, this time with MJ coming out in white face. People are making too big a deal about it.
Why is it a white guy in a movie in whiteface as a murdering, frothing at the mouth, over the top, chewing the scenery pychopath isn't offensive but a still picture of a black guy in white face that correctly identifies him as a socialist is offensive?
Because the people who are being offended make a tidy sum on being offended,l and because when The (boogie) Man blocks you at every turn, you don't have to explain why you are a drug dealing, small-time hoodlum ignoring a free education provided by the state and skipping out on your responsibility to your family.
Maybe the Wayans brothers would be offensive if there were 400 years of history of whites being made to look like sub-human buffoons in American popular culture.