Why blackface and making fun of a minority is not okay (in case you really needed some explaining)
adrianaSo what’s wrong with putting on blackface and mocking an ethnic minority’s food, you might ask?
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.”