Quotes About Blackface

I've seen a lot of Black content creators calling for white folks to stop using the voices of Black folks to make TikToks because it's like digital blackface. That's valid.

I certainly don't stay out of the sun, and I also don't, as some of my critics have said, put on blackface as a performance.

and before him, the minstrel who smeared on love's blackface, rattling his damage like a tambourine. I have been the deadest nag limping circles around the paddock, have flown to beady pieces, sick as the tongue of mercury at the thermometer's tip.

There was all this talk when Obama got elected about how we were living in a postracial world. But we're not. Until we get to the point where James Earl Jones can play, say, George Washington, race matters. You wouldn't put a white actor in blackface to play Othello. You shouldn't have a white actor in what amounts to yellowface to play Asian.

In adopting blackface, Jolson, as one of those new immigrants, not only traded on a form that had grown in popularity during the nineteenth century, he also found the perfect means of becoming white.

Like, Australians definitely don't walk around dressed up in blackface going, 'Ha-ha.'

The Left wields blackface as a political cudgel, feigning offense and making excuses according to political convenience. Conservatives need not embrace the same cynical and vindictive tactics. We would prefer to live in a society marked by grace and civility rather than one marked by petty opportunism and cancel culture.