State Meeting - SNL

BLACK Panther has a mask dic head. Your just like your mom she loves the blackness also, you paint your face she paints her Dido black.

Shasmeen Muhammad More like making fun of people who think that black face is okay.

no, that's exactly the right thing to do.

No, they're the ones calling each other out. I'm willing to bet that several Republicans have done it as well.... but they'll condone each others racist behavior

President’s day was just a way to have only one national holiday in February instead of two. Since they originally celebrated George Washington’s and Abraham Lincoln’s birthdays. President’s Day is really for them, not all the presidents.

Nah, its only funny and cool when there isn't a history of it rooted in racism. If you can show me A white face minstrel show from the early 1900s, I'd be very interested

Winston Smith huh???? Africans have had modern faces for atleast 300k years and all human (African monkey) dna is African 😂😂 humans are 100% African, 99.9% identical 💯🇺🇸 The eldest Europeans are African by tens of millions of years then Hispanics by tens of thousands of years. Hispanic African (Denisovan) dna is atleast 400k years old and the Hispanics have been in the Americas for atleast 60k years. Modern ethnicities didn't spread African depigmentation genes until 5-8k years ago 😂 "When it comes to skin color, the team found a patchwork of evolution in different places, and three separate genes that produce light skin, telling a complex story for how European’s skin evolved to be much lighter during the past 8000 years. The modern humans who came out of Africa to originally settle Europe about 40,000 years are presumed to have had dark skin, which is advantageous in sunny latitudes. And the new data confirm that about 8500 years ago, early hunter-gatherers in Spain, Luxembourg, and Hungary also had darker skin: They lacked versions of two genes-SLC24A5 and SLC45A2-that lead to depigmentation and, therefore, pale skin in Europeans today." www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/04/how-europeans-evolved-white-skin "You and I, in fact everyone all over the world, we’re literally African under the skin; brothers and sisters separated by a mere two thousand generations. Old-fashioned concepts of race are not only socially divisive, but scientifically wrong." "Explain that genetic evidence shows all humans are 99.9% identical and do not fall neatly into physical categories some people call races. The differences among us-like skin color and hair texture-evolved as humans adapted to different environments. They account for less than one tenth of one percent of our genetic makeup." www.nationalgeographic.org/activity/all-africans-under-the-skin/

technically that wasn't black face.

+jason blood it's not that people overly sensitive.it's just never a good idea to make light of things that's based on pure hate.

1talldaddy also I don’t find those black celebrities dressing up in white face offensive I find it funny, the point I’m making is that people don’t need to be so overly sensitive

1talldaddy I’m not defending what he did I realize the difference between putting shoe polish on your face and standing next to a guy dressed in KKK robes and someone dressing up for halloween as a black celebrity in fact that’s the point that I’m making there’s a distinction to be made!

no the problem is the governor dressed as a minstrel show character.something that is rooted rooted racism.

James Overton humans are 100% African, 99.9% identical 💯🇺🇸 The eldest Europeans are African by tens of millions of years then Hispanics by tens of thousands of years. Hispanic African (Denisovan) dna is atleast 400k years old and the Hispanics have been in the Americas for atleast 60k years. Modern ethnicities didn't spread African depigmentation genes until 5-8k years ago 😂 "When it comes to skin color, the team found a patchwork of evolution in different places, and three separate genes that produce light skin, telling a complex story for how European’s skin evolved to be much lighter during the past 8000 years. The modern humans who came out of Africa to originally settle Europe about 40,000 years are presumed to have had dark skin, which is advantageous in sunny latitudes. And the new data confirm that about 8500 years ago, early hunter-gatherers in Spain, Luxembourg, and Hungary also had darker skin: They lacked versions of two genes-SLC24A5 and SLC45A2-that lead to depigmentation and, therefore, pale skin in Europeans today." www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/04/how-europeans-evolved-white-skin "You and I, in fact everyone all over the world, we’re literally African under the skin; brothers and sisters separated by a mere two thousand generations. Old-fashioned concepts of race are not only socially divisive, but scientifically wrong." "Explain that genetic evidence shows all humans are 99.9% identical and do not fall neatly into physical categories some people call races. The differences among us-like skin color and hair texture-evolved as humans adapted to different environments. They account for less than one tenth of one percent of our genetic makeup." www.nationalgeographic.org/activity/all-africans-under-the-skin/

+Joe Franklin but here's the issue, if you thought dressing up in blackface and sending me a picture was entertaining, you'd send it because you wanted me reaction to be one of humor. The minute I say its not funny its offensive, how do you then justify you finding it entertaining when that's not the effect it had on the intended audience. If I step on your toes and apologize, you'd probably be more willing to let it go than if I told you to just get over it while still continuing to do it. Usually something that helps people get over an issue is acknowledgment and changed behavior by the offending party.... that doesn't happen in these cases. Instead we get gaslit and people get mad at us for getting mad.

+crazii_creole 3 You might misunderstand me. I'm trying to understand where you're coming from. I don't discard your feelings because I'm not offended by this. We can argue the merit of others actions till the cows come home and resolve nothing. The only reason things like this matter to anyone is because people allow it to insult or offend them. I could put on black face paint right now and send you a picture. It won't mean that I hate you or think less of you or any other black person. The only reason it would be funny is how ridiculous I would look.

+Joe Franklin you just proved my point. I would be more easily able to get over these things IF they didn't continue to come up. Even if you don't think that the more recent blackface is as bad as the early turn of the century blackface, they still stem from the same place. Yes, people do dress up offensively and it does get media coverage in a lot of cases (mascots changed, protests, etc) it is offensive in any case because the whole idea stems from a racist practice and is more often than not culturally insensitive. I have people of other races that I admire...I don't need to paint my face to imitate them and it would be ignorant for me to think that if I did the onus is on the people who are offended vs the actual offenders. This whole get over it mentality is infuriating. Its not even a one off...Gucci just did it, Katy Perry just did it, H&M did it with the whole monkey controversy... just because it doesn't relate to you, doesn't mean you can dismiss other people for feeling the way they do.

+crazii_creole 3 I see your point about old school black face from the early 1900's. That's not the same as a white guy dressing up as a black person without over exaggerated features and without stereotypical behavior. People do dress up like Nazis, and stereotypical Native Americans, Jews, Indians and Asians all the time. I notice two things when that happens. 1. There's very little, if any media coverage. 2. Those groups don't get so bent out of shape about it. You say it's a bad thing when people say, "You're overreacting. Don't worry about it." Dismissal of such behavior does nothing to prevent it from happening again, and that is true. Maybe you should figure out why some bad costume a guy wore in the 80s bothers you so much in the first place. Free people in a free country sometimes do stupid things with those freedoms. Maybe those things offend or upset you, but you have to get over it and go on living your life.

+Joe Franklin but that's the thing, the whole purpose of blackface WAS malice and to make fun of caricatures of black people's physical features and their perceived behavior and speech. This was born out of racism and bigotry, even if the more current version is seen as more watered down, it still has roots in that racism. It wouldn't be acceptable for other races to have holocaust or nazi parties where they dressed like exaggerated versions of Jewish people. It wouldn't be OK to have "oriental" parties where people painted their faces yellow, pulled their eyes back and spoke in that stereotypical "Ching chang" mocking style. And even if it were done and people's excuse was that they admired the person they emulated, its in bad taste because it still plays on stereotypes. And the worse thing is, when this happens, people are told that it's no big deal, that they're too sensitive, etc as opposed to recognizing the underlying issue.