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Thursday, February 14, 2019

Blackface Controversy and America's Perception of Real Black Faces

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VA GOV AND ATTY GEN MINSTREL BLACK FACES EVOKE AMERICA'S UNCANNY PREOCCUPATION WITH REAL BLACK FACES

Nationwide  C'mon. I need ev'rybody singin'. Coon Man (aka Virginia Governor Ralph Northam) you take the lead. I need all eleven seceding Southern states to join in: "I wish I was in the land of cotton, old times there are not forgotten." Now Northern States I need you to chime in. After all, you insured the enslaved cargo and the enslavement ships; exported the harvest from the enslaved labor; and ultimately removed the troops from the South ushering in Jim Crow. A monumental betrayal of African-Americans! Sing from your gut: "Look away, look away, look away Dixie Land."

The ships that appeared off the coast of Africa didn't emblazon a Confederate flag but a red, white and blue flag, with stars. And we were all led to believe enslavement was a southern peculiar institution: "Den carry me back to ole Virginny." The real black faces know better.