So what’s wrong with putting on blackface and mocking an ethnic minority’s food, you might ask?
![David Leonard](https://wpcdn.web.wsu.edu/wp-cas/uploads/sites/648/2013/01/Leonard-d-2011-80.jpg)
David Leonard from WSU’s Department of Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies explains, “Blackface is never a neutral form of entertainment, but an incredibly loaded site for the production of damaging stereotypes… the same stereotypes that undergird individual and state violence, American racism, and a century’s worth of injustice.”