Thread: And the award for Most Racist Oscars Presenter goes to...

Originally Posted by ShitFace

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Racism was funny back then.
It isn't now.

I think racism is funny...

On topic, of course this isn't racist. Using Dave Chappelle as an example, if he had impersonated Frank Sinatra by dressing in 'whiteface', then made the exact same joke, nobody anywhere would be saying anything about it. If anything is racist about all of this it is the fact that everyone is calling it racist.

Originally Posted by Mr. E

I think racism is funny...

On topic, of course this isn't racist. Using Dave Chappelle as an example, if he had impersonated Frank Sinatra by dressing in 'whiteface', then made the exact same joke, nobody anywhere would be saying anything about it. If anything is racist about all of this it is the fact that everyone is calling it racist.

The problem is that dressing up in "blackface" is analogous to using the word "nigger" because they both have a tarred history of being used to opress black people. But, of course, there's a difference between wearing make up to impesonate a pop culture figure of a different ethnicity and "cooning up" like Amos and freakin' Andy.