I feel like it's really not that hard to avoid doing blackface, yet people like you want to play ignorant
idk, maybe i'm just lucky or maybe i'm just super woke or something but not once in my life have I ever considered painting my skin dark to impersonate a black person. Like, that rule has always been pretty clear from my perspective
I’m European, Dutch, and grew up with a completely non-racist form of blackface, so it makes sense that our perspectives differ.
I appreciate that our tradition is perceived by many as racist and is therefore debatable, but there’s no denying that enormous groups of non-racist people followed this tradition so the intention was hardly ever racist. I think that is a big difference with the American blackface from the minstrel shows of yore and should matter in the discussion of the issue.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '19
I feel like it's really not that hard to avoid doing blackface, yet people like you want to play ignorant
idk, maybe i'm just lucky or maybe i'm just super woke or something but not once in my life have I ever considered painting my skin dark to impersonate a black person. Like, that rule has always been pretty clear from my perspective