Dead Horse Interchange

VoiceOfReasonPast wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 29, 2017 4:13 pm

Not to mention that vintage blackface is just ridiculous. It's basically clown makeup with black instead of white.

Poonoo wrote: ↑

Sun Apr 30, 2017 1:33 am

I remember when I was very young I had a VHS tape of old Warner Bros cartoon shorts (very old, WW2 era before Daffy Duck was the butt of the joke, there was a even WW2 propaganda on it) like Bugs Bunny. In many cases they would randomly end the show with them in blackface dancing.

Best of Wikipedia wrote:In a February 2017 interview with The Guardian, Dolezal said that she sees race as a social construct. At Howard, she was introduced to the theory that racial identity had been devised in colonial times as a method of control.

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In April 2016, Dolezal announced on the Today Show that she was writing a book on her racial identity. This memoir, called In Full Color: Finding My Place in a Black and White World, was released by BenBella Books in March 2017. Dolezal claims 30 publishing houses turned her down before she found a smaller publishing company willing to print it. In the book, Dolezal compares her own experiences to slavery and reiterates her claim that she was born in a teepee. Critics described the memoir as "bizarre."

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By February 2017, she was on food stamps, estranged from most of her friends, and on the brink of homelessness after having no success in finding another job.