Comedian Druski’s “Whiteface”: “Whiteface” Doesn’t Exist

the history of ethnic racism, of African Americans commonly degrading Africans as “barbaric” or routinely calling West Indians in 1920s Harlem “monkey chasers”—or when I remembered my own taunts of Kwame back in eighth grade—I tried not to run away from the hypocrisy, either. How can I get upset at immigrants from Africa and South America for

I thought of white men arriving for the first time in an African village, strangers there, as I am a stranger here, and tried to imagine the astounded populace touching their hair and marveling at the color of their skin. But there is a great difference between being the first white man to be seen by Africans and being the first black man to be

In my applause-stoked flights of oratory, I didn’t realize that to say something is wrong about a racial group is to say something is inferior about that racial group. I did not realize that to say something is inferior about a racial group is to say a racist idea. I thought I was serving my people, when in fact I was serving up racist ideas about

The people who get offended over Comedian, Druski’s, “whiteface,” are the same people who said Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle Ad was “not that deep”…

Blackface is offensive BECAUSE of the historical context of the use. It was used in Minstrel Shows as racist entertainment for white people to dehumanize black people.