Posted on 08/23/2023 4:38:53 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A photo of Judy Garland in blackface has resurfaced on social media, with fans jumping to defend the late child star.
The image is a still from the movie Everybody Sing from 1938, and shows a teenage Garland painted to have darker skin, large white lips and dreadlocks. Garland played Judy Bellaire in the musical comedy, who joins a music show as a blackface singer to escape her dysfunctional family.
Although the film was released 85 years ago, many people learned of its existence for the first time after the still was shared by X user @browardbully on August 16. Pairing the image with a shot of Garland in the film musical The Wizard of Oz from the following year, @browardbully wrote: "two movies. a year apart. same b****. shoutout to Gen Z for teaching me this."
The post received over 36 million views and caused uproar online, but not due to the blackface. Fans leaped to the actor's defense, calling attention to Garland's infamous abuse at the hands of her parents and studio executives.
"She was a child forced to do this," posted X user Queen Minaj. "It wasn't 2023."
"You think she had any say as a minor or a woman back in the 30s? You think the abusive management she had and her parents would allow her to refuse the role?" wrote Alex Silva.
"A walk in her shoes might bring about some empathy," commented KJ-isms.
"Cancel someone who did it as an adult and is still living," wrote Hozonkai. "Not a former child actress who died 54 years ago."
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Whoopi better keep her damn mouth shut on this one.
Perfectly acceptable at the time ie. Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer was the biggest movie of the era.
Isn’t that Xoe’s Press Secretary?
Apparently, Whoopi set him up by telling him that particular jokes and whatever would be found funny in the black community.
but a black Hamilton is fine. what’s the difference.
Lefty male homosexual heads exploding!
Uh, oh. How will gays defend their “dear Judy”, now?
> Perfectly acceptable at the time… <
Yes. Everyone must be judged within context of their times. Here’s an example conservatives might want to share with their liberal acquaintances.
Martin Luther King was a great man. He patiently tried to heal the racial device. But he thought that homosexuality was a mental disorder. And he advised homosexuals to see a psychiatrist.
That kind of thinking just won’t fly today. So should MLK be cancelled, and be erased from history? Or should he be judged within the context of his times?
Different generations.
Oh Noes!!! Dig her up and give her the Cromwell treatment. These people are insane. They have too much time on their hands.
But it’s perfectly ok for men to dress up as women.
Whoopi laughed her formidably planetateous ass off at Ted Danson in blackface that night.
Yep, we had black face shows or something with I was in 4th or 5th grade, back in early 70s. Too many years ago but I don’t there there was ill intent in this. I don’t recall if that was in Idaho or Montana. I think the latter. Things change.
This was 85 years ago. She has been dead for 50 years. There was a lot of stuff in show business then that wouldn’t, and shouldn’t, fly today. Have you ever seen the scene between a black bellman and Cheetah in “Tarzan Goes to New York”? Just shameful. We have moved on. Judy Garland was great. Leave her alone. I’m tired of the public masturbators in the woke movement who have nothing better to do than to dig up obscurities to negate our historical and cultural figures. This is especially galling in a time in which our popular culture is largely garbage, not exactly the product of a land full of pure and enlightened hearts and minds.
Eddie Murphy did “whiteface”.
Are we supposed to cancel him now? Sorry, not happening.
"What a silly negro."
LMAO. One of the greatest SNL skits ever.
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