And I am not talking about this kind of black face.
Not the kind where you put on a black mask. The kind where you adapt the speaking mannerisms and defined facial characteristics of an exaggeration of a perception of what certain types of black people were like. And let’s not be racist, it’s not like all black face is the same. You have a minstrelsy folksy singy black face, and then you have the more worldly misconception of the african and islander black face. Like Man Friday from Robinson Crusoe.
My case in point is this video.
Notice that they never actually have black faces, by artfully coloring themselves every color but black they have managed to persuade the youtube scholars in the comment section that they are trying to be clowns or are singing about drugs or some nonsense.
But then why do the birds have eyes like this?
More fair comparisons in this video
Anyways, I think its a catchy song, and they acknowledge in the beginning of the song what they are going for by saying they are the newest hit sensation from Zimbabwe, but it just seems silly that a lot of people don’t understand the history of what went into this song:
So enjoy your irony, but at least know what you are absorbing, racism not drug culture.
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