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What’s ‘digital blackface?’ And why is it wrong when White people use it?
CNN ^ | March 26, 2023 | John Blake

Posted on 03/26/2023 12:10:49 PM PDT by 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

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

Tiger...catch a TIGER by the toe.


21 posted on 03/26/2023 12:37:00 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: A_perfect_lady
Eeny, meenie, miny...


22 posted on 03/26/2023 12:38:12 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: rockrr
It sure was nice of her, to allow black people a free pass..

Yes it was. It was mighty black of her.

#WakandaForever


23 posted on 03/26/2023 12:38:54 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: artichokegrower

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.


24 posted on 03/26/2023 12:40:08 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: artichokegrower

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


25 posted on 03/26/2023 12:40:30 PM PDT by toddausauras (Trump Lake 2024....Go down swinging!)
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To: TangoLimaSierra

Dang right!


26 posted on 03/26/2023 12:43:50 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as.)
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To: artichokegrower

27 posted on 03/26/2023 12:45:24 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: ifinnegan

One must attend college to formulate such monumentally stupid concepts.


28 posted on 03/26/2023 12:45:42 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: artichokegrower

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


29 posted on 03/26/2023 12:45:43 PM PDT by I want the USA back (No one is assigned sex at birth. One's sex is noted and recorded. My pronouns Haha, hehe, hoho, hoo )
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To: artichokegrower

The same people that have no problem with “Hamilton”

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


30 posted on 03/26/2023 12:47:49 PM PDT by tophat9000 (Tophat90000)
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To: artichokegrower

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

LMAO


31 posted on 03/26/2023 12:47:50 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: artichokegrower
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.


32 posted on 03/26/2023 12:52:37 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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To: artichokegrower

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.


33 posted on 03/26/2023 12:54:00 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: bagster

Or laughing WITH black people.


34 posted on 03/26/2023 12:54:15 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: smokingfrog

35 posted on 03/26/2023 12:56:02 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: artichokegrower

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


36 posted on 03/26/2023 12:57:23 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: frank ballenger

“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.”


37 posted on 03/26/2023 1:07:09 PM PDT by HKMk23 (https://youtu.be/LTseTg48568)
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To: toddausauras

I’ll say!!


38 posted on 03/26/2023 1:08:39 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as.)
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To: artichokegrower
To little snowflake Jonny Blake:

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

39 posted on 03/26/2023 1:16:37 PM PDT by Col Freeper (Praise and Trust in the LORD in All Things at All Times.)
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To: artichokegrower
And once again, Scott Adams is proven correct.

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

40 posted on 03/26/2023 1:20:51 PM PDT by 7thson (I've got a seat at the big conference table! I'm gonna paint my logo on it!)
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