Thank you! I don’t know how I missed this. But he really isn’t being covered on the morning news at all. They all wanted to interview that ridiculous Starbucks idiot but not a word about this guy.

You didn’t see his announcement speech that he did in San Antonio? It’s in the back.  Very inspiring.  I’ll try to find it for you.

Why do I hear next to nothing about Castro’s run? I wasn’t even aware he was running until this week.

History has nothing to do with this.

Holy additional levels of irony and ignorance! I bet you’ve got some real hot takes on what an awful double standard it is that white folks can’t use the N-word, too.

Oh you’re right I forgot about the long history of white people being unable to represent themselves in pop culture due to a mixture of literal slavery and subsequently vehement racism, so instead everyone made themselves up to be ridiculous caricatures that played into many of the completely racist ideas others had…

Is this a joke? Really? Whiteface has no history. It’s rooted in nothing. Blackface is a destructive historical atrocity. That’s why one is offensive and the other is Chapelle show & Wayans memes

remind us again when white folks were denied, oh, i dunno, anything, because of the color of their skin?

Nick Cannon’s Instagram post reminds me of the amazing White Like Me SNL sketch with Eddie Murphy, a pure comedic distillation of white privilege:

Kimmel also appeared in blackface on the Man Show to impersonate Oprah. Kimmel did a lot of racist, misogynistic shit back in the day in order to get rich & famous and, once he did so, he suddenly (& conveniently) found his moral compass.

But the uncanny valley is real?

Karl Malone was a reccuring segment, not a one time thing. He eventually replaced himself in blackface with a Karl Malone puppet (they had that puppet-prank calling show, the breakout character in that was named “Special Ed”). Kimmel’s been better than most about addressing the shitty stuff he used to do on camera so…

but what?

J. Lo is not Black. Having a little bit of Black DNA by way of PR doesn’t make you Black. She has not tried to claim she is Afro-Latina, so I’m not sure why you’re claiming it for her. Motown is a BLACK AMERICAN thing, with a few moments of non-Black people, like Teena Marie, doing well at Black music. Motown artists…

Also, see these studio vocals that prove my point:

Ne-Yo was actually there for a hot second, then the JLo Reno Casino Presents Motown 60 Revue & Buffet, steamrolled any momentum he was trying to conjure up.

I will repeat here what I said in my comment on the other Grammys post:

Uncle Botox Smokey says if you didn’t like JLo doing the Motown Tribute, then you is stupid.

Kelly Price was busy?