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Paris in Blackface?!

posted 18 years ago by FutCel
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Is it just me or in the commercial for tonights episode did they show paris made up to look like a black woman? Putting a white person in blackface is insulting enough due to the long racist history behind it ("Birth of a Nation" anyone?). But I find it 10 times more insulting considering that just a few months ago we all saw the video of Paris dancing to a notorious B.I.G. song saying "look we're ni99ers!" Add to that the fact that we all know that this show is scripted and it just becomes incredibly insensitive and insulting. I know that a lot of kids that watch the show will just think its funny but I'm only 26 and I know better than to just laugh at something like that, without considering the people who will be hurt by it.

[–] DivineDivia 18 years ago

I'm a black woman, I did NOT find it offensive. Paris thought she looked hot as a black woman. Nicole was even funnier because she said she is already a black woman (being half black). Do you find it just as offensive/insensitive when Eddie Murphy gets done up as different races? What about the Wayans brothers and the movie White Chicks? It is a reality-comedy, get over it already!

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[–] Jeff3209 18 years ago

Eddie Murphy did an old SNL skit where he played a white man all dressed up like that.

[–] PlastixEmmi 18 years ago

The whole issue with people dressing in blackface in vaudville and in movies like Birth of a Nation is that they would do it in a way that was really degrading to black people. They took all the negative <b>stereotypes</b> and exagerated them.
That obviously wasn't what Paris was doing.
Especially since Nicole is her best friend and considers herself black.

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[–] iamthemook 18 years ago

Al Sharpton needed to get on her racist ass.