What’s ‘digital blackface?’ And why is it wrong when White people use it?

CNN ^ | March 26, 2023 | John Blake

[artichokegrower]

Maybe you shared that viral video of Kimberly “Sweet Brown” Wilkins telling a reporter after narrowly escaping an apartment fire, “Ain’t nobody got time for that!”

Perhaps you posted that meme of supermodel Tyra Banks exploding in anger on “America’s Next Top Model” (“I was rooting for you! We were all rooting for you!”). Or maybe you’ve simply posted popular GIFs, such as the one of NBA great Michael Jordan crying, or of drag queen RuPaul declaring, “Guuuurl…”

If you’re Black and you’ve shared such images online, you get a pass. But if you’re White, you may have inadvertently perpetuated one of the most insidious forms of contemporary racism.

You may be wearing “digital blackface

[bagster]

Eeny, meenie, miny moe... Ooo, I better not use that...!

Tiger...catch a TIGER by the toe.

[dfwgator]

Eeny, meenie, miny...

[bagster]

It sure was nice of her, to allow black people a free pass..

Yes it was. It was mighty black of her.

#WakandaForever

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

What is wrong is the folks behind all of this CRT trying to tell all of us what we can and cannot say or do or think. Find me and come get some. TEST me to see if I mean what I say.

[toddausauras]

I was wondering when they were going to get around to this one. Absolute garbage. These idiots sk need to get a life!

[No name given]

Dang right!

[Chode]

[Organic Panic]

One must attend college to formulate such monumentally stupid concepts.

[I want the USA back]

Mr blake, you may shut up. You have nothing worthwhile to say.

[tophat9000]

The same people that have no problem with “Hamilton”

They rewrite history and cast black actors as white history characters..

[TexasFreeper2009]

the writer of this article messed up, you are never supposed to go “full retard”

LMAO

[smokingfrog]

If you’re looking to post a .gif of someone making some off-the-wall expression, the black person doing it is almost always going to be better than some pasty white person.

[frank ballenger]

I bought physical CDs of I believe nearly every Al Jolson song and radio and interviews. Maybe 90-100 CDs or so.
Someday all will say on audio services on the internet “deleted” and “no longer available.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIaj7FNHnjQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAZADY7kzv4

In the first fully operational talking movie The Jazz Singer, Warner allowed Jolson to begin with whatever he wanted to say as the performance started. He brilliantly ad libbed “You ain’t heard nothin’ yet” because audiences had only had silent films up to then and he foresaw the expanse of the future with more technically advanced sound movies that were just beginning. Note: He was a Gemini, as Trump, Bob Dylan and me.

[dfwgator]

Or laughing WITH black people.

[dfwgator]

[gitmo]

How about if a black person posts a meme with a white face? Is that wrong?

[HKMk23]

“He was a Gemini”

Long ago the very best on radio horoscope was — riffin’ on McDonald’s — “The Cosmic Muffin Report” and it always wrapped with this golden nugget of wisdom:
“It’s a wise man that rules the stars, and a fool who’s ruled by them.”

[No name given]

I’ll say!!

[Col Freeper]

To little snowflake Jonny Blake:

I ... DON'T ... GIVE ... A ... DAMN!

[7thson]

And once again, Scott Adams is proven correct.

It's funny, that when 'people of color' is mentioned, it only means blacks.