Blackface: A cultural history of a racist art form
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Channel: CBS Sunday Morning
Views: 2,892,638
Rating: 4.6100068 out of 5
Keywords: CBS Sunday Morning, CBS News, news, Megyn Kelly, blackface, halloween, painting, performers, minstrel, culture, history, racism, theater
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Length: 7min 57sec (477 seconds)
Published: Sun Oct 28 2018
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This helped me understand it a little bit more. I think what was most revealing for me was the speculation on what black performers in blackface might have been thinking. Sort of a wink to other black people that white people require the stupidest things to make them laugh. Secretly empowering. I like the idea that black people took over the artform for themselves. And did it better!
I don't like that they included examples of people dressing up like famous people that happened to have another skin color. To me at least, that has nothing to do with blackface
I’ve never been a fan of retrospectively changing history. Racism is bad but people didn’t think like we do now.