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Angus Johnston
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Jesus. Northam is saying the photo isn't him but that he DID do blackface at around the same time, in a separate incident.
Northam saying that his memory of the OTHER blackface incident is seared on his brain. Which means he remembered it and hid it throughout the campaign and his first year in office.
"I hid the fact that I had a blackface incident throughout my political career but I'm not going to fall on my sword now" is a tack that's sure to endear him to his Dem colleagues.
Northam now saying the other blackface incident—the one he admits to—occurred a few months after the photo appeared, after he graduated from med school. Well.
"All of you will be reassured to know that I am not the one in that photo," says the guy who just admitted he put shoe polish in his face as part of a Michael Jackson costume in the fall of 1984.
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Seems worth saying and repeating: The point of blackface isn't to make you look like a black person, much less to make you look like a SPECIFIC black person. The point of blackface is to make you look like a racial caricature.
If you, a white person, think you look more like any specific black person with cork or shoe polish on your face than you do with your own damn skin on your face, that's racism at work. Period.
A space alien from outer space isn't going to think that you, joe white guy, looks more like Kurtis Blow if you cork up. Because corking up isn't about copying another human being's appearance. It's about enacting a caricature. EVEN IF YOU DON'T KNOW THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE DOING.
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You seem to be unfamiliar with metaphor, but then you go on to deploy one, so I’m confused.
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