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I think it’s a very difficult choice to navigate. The biggest example of brown/blackface where it doesn’t work I can remember is Fisher Stevens playing an Indian guy in Short Circuit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Circuit_(1986_film). In that movie, he’s playing an Indian person as a stereotype to juxtapose with how white counterpart. Contrast that to Robert Downey Jr. being nominated for an Oscar and BAFTA for his blackface roll in Tropic Thunder. The way it was handled within the movie itself was legitimately a good representation of why blackface is usually on the wrong side of “is it racist?”
I think just based on the little I’ve seen without any other translation besides your edit, it looks fairly racist.
Nicely done parody.
Also mind the ladies butts, the constant smoking and whatever else seems a bit outdated.
I bet I could get that tanned skin if I worked outside for a whole summer. I think the first joke is perfectly alright. The second one at the end is a bit cheap.
Without reading, probably very, based on it being brought up.
After reading, 90's European blackface can be excused based on lack of historical context with minstrel shows, but the pudding thing doesn't feel very nice.
Blackface is just a very big no.
Would you say that this was racist, or shouldn't have been performed?
Of course all of you excuse it, none of you are black so you don't care
It's extremely racist if you'd like to know from someone who is black