#black face
There are many PoC out there who are funny. For example, Chris Rock and Eddie Murphy are both MoC and famous comedians. There are lot of non famous PoC who are also funny and have good senses of humour.
That being said, it really makes me uncomfortable when white people make photosets of various unnamed PoC doing physically funny things. Recently, a friend of mine reblogged a photoset of the Selfie Olympics which featured only black people and then tagged it “funny black people”.
When white people make these photosets it makes me feel like I’m watching some sort of minstrel show. These white people are only valuing these PoC’s ability to humour them and remain completely absent otherwise. Like somehow black people are only meant to be humour to white people.
I don’t know, overall this trend just makes me really uncomfortable.
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Appropriation: Dear White People, Mastadon, and Halloween.
Note: This you may want to check out last week’s post on appropriation of “booty,” which this post will somewhat be a continuation of.
On the lead in to Halloween, college campus student organizations and social media outlets of more liberal minded folk attempt to raise as much awareness as they can about the racism behind dressing up as another culture as a Halloween costume. This usually…
“Yet our best trained, best educated, best equipped, best prepared troops refuse to fight! Matter of fact, it’s safe to say that they would rather switchthanfight!”
- Civil Rights Activist Thomas “TNT” Todd, as sampled by Public Enemy in Fight the Power
American pop culture and media has long been, and continues to be, saturated with grossly narrow representations of people of color.…
