Heck, even problematic Miley Cyrus dressed up as Lil Kim without even turning to self-tanner and nailed it. You can dress up like people of other raises without darkening your skin.*

She...

Just... why?

When I first moved to LA, I interviewed for a hostess job at the Friar’s Club. There’s a room on the top floor that is set up like an old world bar, leather chairs, pools tables, etc. - but the floor is a giant sandbox and no one is allowed to wear shoes. I was told that if I did well on the main floor, I could be…

By convincing yourself it’s possible to don blackface and make a meta commentary on racism?*

What part of her act seems well intentioned?

Well this is the most telling part of it all. She chose a fro to make sure people got that it was blackface vs attempt any actual parody of the human being. That destroys any bullshit feignings of respect.

Honestly, she was probably still born in the ‘90s (adjunct system, woo!) and she’s in Oregon, where there are like five black people.

Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. You know that’s not true.

It’s a woman.

The shit of that was, Whoopi wrote the jokes and they made the decision together for him to do blackface. From what I remember, in those days Friar Club was nasty, filthy, worst jokes ever and NOT TELEVISED. I think neither of them expected word of her induction(because that’s what it was) to get out.

... I really hope this doesn’t turn into a ‘Post Your Favorite Shocking Blackface pics!’ free-for-all because really, this story is dispiriting and dehumanizing enough without having this shit pop up, too.

I remember that. To the credit of, well, pretty much most people (as far as I can recall, anyway), I believe that was the exact moment when everyone began to inch slowly away from Ted Danson and his career started to tank.

I love the guy with the trump/Putin campaign sticker texting in the background. It makes the picture even better and would love to imagine who he was texting at that moment.

Poor Dr Tweedy, this has to be pretty demoralizing for him.

Oh. My. God.

As an Old, I can entertain you with stories. Here’s a shitty one from the eearly 90's before Friar’s Roasts became a public thing. Ted Danson still “cheers” famous was going out with Whoopi Goldberg. He did a bit at the Friar’s lunch about them smoking pot and him telling her; “Hey Whoop; don’t Ni$$&r lip it!” Shit,…

All of their ranks sound like DandD references.

They think a cartoon frog is funny or cool or something

Yeah, don’t even bother trying to understand white nationalists. This shit makes no sense to me.