Bambizzoozled - The World's Blackface Database

Should America Teach the World that Blackface is Incredibly Offensive? | Tal Pinchevsky | Big Think

2009-11-14T21:28:00.000-05:00

Take a lesson from someone who sounds like they've taken a lesson from B!

Should America Teach the World that Blackface is Incredibly Offensive? | Tal Pinchevsky | Big Think

Bambizzoozled! Now Has Over 550 Sources

2009-11-14T18:14:00.001-05:00

Bambizzoozled's list of blackface in movies and television has now topped 550 incidents. Thank you for your help in making it the best source for blackface roles and cross-racial depictions in cinema. Bambizzoozled! - The World's Blackface Database is the ideal tool for researchers, hobbyists, and collectors.

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Guinness Half-Blackface

2009-11-13T12:25:00.002-05:00

Every man has a dark side.

Charles Barkley "Makes Light" of Sammy Sosa's Situation

2009-11-13T12:20:00.002-05:00

Making fun of Sammy Sosa turning White, Charles Barkley, while having whiteface applied to him, said "If I become White, am I allowed to eat chicken, hamhocks, and neckbones?"

TNT, Halftime Report, brought to you by T-Mobile.

No Recall for Cotati City Councilman George Barich

2009-11-13T12:13:00.002-05:00

Cotati City Councilman George Barich is finally being left alone by race-hustling idiots. I am glad to see you standing tall George! I hope I have been of some help.

"The Daily Show" November 11, 2009

2009-11-12T13:22:00.002-05:00

"The Daily Show" did a segment on blackface. Clips and photos were shown including:

- CNN (October 14, 2009): Al Jolson as Gus, Lara Stone
- French Vogue: Lara Stone
- V (Magazine): Sasha Pivovarova
- Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader, Whitney Isleib as Little Wayne
- "Americas Next Top Model" Cycle 13, Episode 9
- "Hey, Hey, It's Saturday" Jackson Jive
- "Schwarz auf Weiss": Günter Wallraff

The questions were posed:

Is blackface ever okay?
How is the French Vogue spread different than a minstrel show?
Is whiteface okay?

So, it was just jam-packed with blackface clips.

Bambizzoozled! Now Has Over 500 Sources

2009-11-12T10:07:00.000-05:00

Bambizzoozled's list of blackface in movies and television has now topped 500 incidents. Thank you for your help in making it the best source for blackface roles and cross-racial depictions in cinema. Bambizzoozled! - The World's Blackface Database is the ideal tool for researchers, hobbyists, and collectors.

View the complete list.

If you have any additions, please let me know.

Smurf-face on South Park

2009-11-11T22:19:00.000-05:00

South Park has a long tradition of blackface, and cross-racial humor. In tonight's episode Cartman puts on blueface to live amongst the Smurfs. Face only, to the jawline, with the lip area left blank - fully minstrel style.

Sekkisei Sekisho Mask

2009-11-11T08:33:00.002-05:00

You'll be beautiful after you take this black facial mask off.

Britain's Other Music Hall: The Story of the Blackface Minstrels

2009-11-10T11:05:00.001-05:00

BBC Radio 4. Britain's Other Music Hall: The Story of the Blackface Minstrels

Listen to the programme.

Sometimes a Cigar is Just a Cigar

2009-11-10T11:01:00.002-05:00

I saw someone referring to these photos as blackface, but they are not. Heidi Klum is simply covered in chocolate syrup. Heidi, and her husband Seal, both wore blackface for a Halloween 2009 party. They came as black crows.

Carlos Diez at Cibeles Madrid Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2010 show in Madrid

2009-11-10T10:48:00.001-05:00

Lady Gaga on V Magazine Cover

2009-11-10T10:46:00.003-05:00

Get over it.

"On n'est pas couché" (2009)

2009-11-10T10:28:00.002-05:00

I am not sure what this clip is all about, but it is current, and it is blackface. This is from a French TV show.

Johnathan Lambert .

Promotion for "Rendez vous en terre inconnue" (Appointments in Unfamiliar)

France 2, November 7, 2009

Take a Lesson from This Dude

2009-11-10T09:35:00.002-05:00

Lessons learned under Obama, part 1 of a series

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Take a Lesson from New York Civil Rights Coalition

2009-11-10T09:30:00.001-05:00

Dear Editor [of Long Island Press]:

Students and youths wear “offensive,” “racially insensitive” and outrageous costumes all the time for Halloween—including ones that include black makeup, such as when white kids go as Michael Jackson or when they don an afro wig to poke fun at or pay homage to an African American icon [“Commack Student Sent Home for Aunt Jemima Costume,” Oct. 31]. What of it?! And, yes, kids have worn such “offensive” costumes as Johnny Yuma (Confederate rebel) soldier uniforms and caps, Hitler outfits, and even—as did the 17-year-old who was suspended for wearing “black face” and an Aunt Jemima costume—Pocahontas costumes.

I’ve also seen kids don robes and beards to resemble Jesus or Osama Bin Laden. All such costumes are “offensive” to someone or some constituency for some reason. So what!

The high school officials who suspended the 17-year-old white male student for standing his ground—for his indignantly refusing to wipe off his makeup—acted foolishly; these school officials simply overreacted, taking offense for blacks. As a black and citizen I deplore such censorship and racial paternalism by school authorities. (Incidentally, paternalism is a form of racism.) Likewise, the NAACP—which is given nowadays to knee-jerk responses of crying “racism” to plain old fun and, now, even to Halloween antics that involve the donning of costumes that poke fun at or embrace racial stereotypes—lacked the common sense to know that they shouldn’t chase after kids in Halloween drag, as if those kids were modern-day robe- and hood-wearing Ku Klux Klan members.

Civil rights forces should deplore the suspension of the high school student, who was just having fun, and we should also lament the entry of the NAACP on the wrong side of the suspension, and also wonder where was and is the ACLU? The ACLU used to combat censorship and defend with great alacrity students’ freedoms from overzealous, inane school officials.

Michael Meyers
Executive Director, New York Civil Rights Coalition

"Transracial" Being Abused

2009-11-10T09:23:00.002-05:00

The word transracial SHOULD mean "to change race." However it is being used instead of the word interracial by the adoption industry. When you adopt a kid that is a different race, that is a interracial placement - not transracial.

What next? Transracial marriages? Will transsexuals be called intersexuals?

Not Really Aboriginal

2009-11-09T21:24:00.002-05:00

In a 2008 exhibition, Not Really Aboriginal, Aboriginal artist Bindi Cole explored what non-Indigenous people thought what an "Aboriginal identity" should look like.

What if Matrix was shot in the silent films' era

2009-11-09T21:20:00.001-05:00

A Russian actor's group called "Big Difference" (Bolshaya Raznitsa / Большая Разница) remade The Matrix as a Charlie Chaplin silent film.

Kaapse Klopse Coon Carnival Time Again

2009-11-09T21:15:00.000-05:00

The Cape Festival – Kaapse Klopse

2009-11-09 18:22:18 - It was August 20, 1982 when the Christy’s Minstrels premiered in Cape Town for the first time. Later in June 19, 1890 Orpheus Myron McAdoo’s Virginia Jubliee Singers from Hampton arrived in Cape Town as the first black minstrels to tour South Africa

The reception held was overwhelming and enchanting. The air was filled with joy and pleasing smiles, even some locals were recorded saying in amazement, “they were black”. The event gave birth to a yearly memorization of this legendry and historic event in the form of a festival called “The Kaapse Klopse”. The word “Klopse” owes its origin to “clubs” in
Cape Dutch or more precisely in its English Version as “troupes” and sketches that the minstrels are grouped into Klopse.

Since than, The Kaapse Klopse (or simply Klopse) emerged as a minstrel festival that takes place every year in the heart of South Africa, Cape Town on January 2. The richness and spirit of Africa is evidently visible in the Klopse Festival, when as estimated 13,000 minstrels, many in black face, take to the streets garbed in shockingly bright colors carrying wither an umbrella or playing an array of musical instruments. The majority of participants in this gaily colorful happening include a good number of Afrikaans-speaking families, mostly middle class. These “colored” successfully have preserved the custom since the mid 19th century and provide a great source of spiritual enlightening for the natives as well as people form round the world till now.

The biggest inspiration or more appropriately, the source of the parade and the festival is the dark times and horrors of slavery. This electrifying festival has been given many shapes, extension and names with the passage of time. Although it is also called the “Coon Carnival” by Capetonians, local authorities have renamed the festival the “Cape Town Minstrel Carnival”. Today, the festival begins on New Year's Day and continues into January. Traditionally, it is supposed to be a site for grievances against white supremacy that lasted for a long time. Several festivities became a part of the festival including street parades with singing and dancing, costume competitions and marches through the streets of Cape Town. While many troupes now are supported by corporate sponsors, many refuse and remain sticklers for tradition. The 2005 carnival was nearly cancelled due to an alleged lack of funding, while the 2006 carnival was officially called off for the same reason. However, the troupe organizations subsequently decided to go ahead with the parade despite continued unhappiness over funding, and the festivities were opened by Western Cape premier Ebrahim Rasool on 2 January 2006. Realtors seeking to reap the economic rewards of a rapidly gentrifying downtown in wake of the 2010 World Cup are painting the Coons as disruptive and attempted to force the festivities to end at 9 p.m. In January 2009, police on horseback took to the route walking against the course of the parade, threatening marchers and demanding that the music stop. It is a dilemma that a festival so deep routed and unique in its own way is coming to its end. There are many nations that still celebrate festivals where the most painful, piercing, crucifications or simple burning of statues is done in memory of slavery, pain or freedom fight. What we should consider is that every nation has and should have a right to express their history in their own way.

Take A Lesson From Tonight Show Writer, Deon Cole

2009-11-09T19:05:00.001-05:00

Conan O'Brien: I want to mention something real in the news. Enough of our tomfoolery. A, uh, it's kind of a, uh, story that's been out there. A Dallas Cowboy cheerleader dressed up as the rapper Lil Wayne for Halloween this past weekend. Well, now she's involved in a controvery. Uh, photos of the cheerleader as Lil Wayne leaked out the other day, and now people are upset. They're saying she was clearly dressing in blackface. Yeah. Here is the cheerleader, uh, as she appears normally. That's just her on an average day. And uh, about to go out and get some groceries, and uh, this is her, this is her as Lil Wayne, right there. And, this is what got people upset. Now, I know that, I know that looks bad, but someone here at the Tonight Show wants everyone watching to know there is no reason to be upset. Yeah. Here to explain further, please welcome, one of our writers, Mr. Deon Cole. Hey Deon.

Deon Cole: Thanks, Conan. It's okay America. Alright? About this whole blackface thing. I mean if we haven't said nothing by now about it, let's not start. I mean where was all the outrage with Robert Downey, Jr.? Okay? When he was in Tropic Thunder.

(film still of RDJ, audience chuckles)

Where was all the outrage at with that guy from Saturday Night Live who played Barack Obama? I mean just 'cause it was a lighter shade of black, doesn't mean it wasn't blackface.

And who could forget Christian Bale... as Batman.

And the main person no one ever says anything about, who always walks around in blackface... Wayne Brady.

So, if it's okay for them, America, it's okay for that cheerleader. Just let it go.

[A Black Thing You Ought To Know]

Individualook by Steven Klein

2009-11-09T10:36:00.002-05:00

Aubrey O'day's friend

2009-11-09T10:35:00.000-05:00

Aubrey O'day had a friend dressed as Kanye West.

Toronto - St. Michael's, Victoria and University College

2009-11-09T10:17:00.001-05:00

On October 29th, St. Michael's, Victoria and University College's student unions held a Halloween party that was heavily advertised across campus. In attendance were a group of students dressed as the Jamaican Bobsled Team.

4 students of the group were dressed in blackface.
1 student was dressed in whiteface.

Their costumes won them top honors in a "best costume" competition.

Foofee

2009-11-09T10:14:00.003-05:00

Foofee is some of that old-time golliwog appeal, mixed with a little modern Black "bling" as they like to call it. These toys are available online at various retailers at this time.