What's 'digital blackface?' And why is it wrong when White people use it? | CNN

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[–]clownworlddropout 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

We should turn this mentality on all those woke shows/movies that keep blackwashing characters. Change the narrative to "These companies are blackfacing their characters!" and watch the Twitter freaks eat themselves.

[–]GraviPirate Party 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Just identify as trans-racial or just as black at the time of posting.

[–]SMCAB 3 insightful - 5 fun3 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

Lori Lightfoot origin story

[–]hfxB0oyAPirate Party 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

I find digital duckface more entertaining.

[–]SMCAB 3 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

When Popeyes is the only place left in your shithole neighborhood to get chicken and it's not fried hard enough

[–]SMCAB 3 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

The superhero we really need, Captain Crack

[–]SMCAB 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Killing innocents because you shoot sideways and over your head

[–]SMCAB 2 insightful - 4 fun2 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

When yo babies get shot through a window

[–]EpsteinDidntKillHims 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

If you’re Black and you’ve shared such images online, you get a pass

Nah, you an Digital Blackface Uncle Tom Nigga.

[–]SMCAB 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

When yo friend shakes her bare ass in a mcdonalds drive thru window because they were out of hot mustard

[–]SMCAB 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

When the whole family was hoping little Reggie would be the first one to graduate elementary school

[–]SMCAB 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

When your friend says he stole two bikes in one weekend

[–]SMCAB 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

When confronted with your actual role in ancient history and not the one you're sold in school to make you feel like you contributed

[–]Alienhunter 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

We was kings.

https://creator.nightcafe.studio/creation/phJBqlAmGgWkQeWbfV1C

[–]JewsAreOfColor 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

And it was those KANGS who sold their own people in slavery to “Europeans.”

[–]SMCAB 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Everyone has AIDS because of this

[–]MuskyIndependent 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Wow... What a blatantly racist article.

“Those are the most effective, because White people are so boring,” she says.

[–]TaseAFeminist4Jesus 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, she had to drop the academic facade and trashy whitey at the end there.

Sorry for our boring space program / refrigeration / written language / fucking wheel, FFS.

[–]rubberbiscuit 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Why would any self respecting white person post a black face anywhere? I try to avoid black at all times, in all places, in any way.

[–]JewsAreOfColor 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Then you must still sleep with a nightlight.

[–]MalusDeathblade 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

LMAO digital blackface, o god, whats next. I will never stop using the "My _ _ _ _ _" Denzel Washington meme one. This has to be like a click baity rage baity fake BS thing...has to be...?

[–]divingrightintowork 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

2017 Listicle website texted, theythem want their headline back.

[–]JewsAreOfColor 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You mean dey/dem.

[–]TaseAFeminist4Jesus 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I kinda wanted a slice of that bronchitis chick.