1. I have a theory about the recent blackface backlash: Liberals are scared that, instead of the public seeing conservative media as racist, they're going to finally understand that liberals, Hollywood and the Democratic Party are full of racism, too. 
2. It's easy to dunk on Fox News as racist, and to cheer on (rightly!) the cancellation of shows like COPS and Live PD for being crudely, vehemently racist
3. It is much harder for liberals to accept that Hollywood legends beloved by the left are also racist.
Here's gay icon Judy Garland, blacking it up as darkly as any Hollywood legend, ever. msn.com/en-au/health/w…
Here's gay icon Judy Garland, blacking it up as darkly as any Hollywood legend, ever. msn.com/en-au/health/w…
4. But one needn't go back to the old days of Hollywood, of course—you've got 30 Rock in black (and yellow) face, Jimmys Kimmel and Fallon...
5. In Brittain, the comedy (and gay) icons of Little Britain both did blackface
6. This is all an embarrassment to the Democratic Party and Hollywood, who like to wag their fingers at the crude right . The Golden Girls I will deal with in an essay; but let's think for a moment about Designing Women.
7. Designing Women has LOTS of racism going on. But as Pulitzer Prize winning playwright @TheLivingMJ reminded me recently, the shows creators Linda Bloodsworth-Thomason and Harry Thomason, were EXTREMELY close to the Clintons, going back to Arkansas.
8. Racist imagery in film & TV is not only the domain of conservatives nor aberrational to Democratic politics; it is inseparable FROM Democratic politics.
Thus, liberals are looking to purge and scrub, rather than to deal with the complexities of this heritage.
Thus, liberals are looking to purge and scrub, rather than to deal with the complexities of this heritage.
9. A danger in the scrub though, as the film curator and writer @_Ash_Clark has warned, is that truly wonderful and critical work might get purged, too—like @SpikeLeeJoint's excellent film, BAMBOOZLED amazon.com/Facing-Blackne…
10. As I wrote recently, I had NO IDEA how many white actors were behind nonwhite animation character
11. I hope, as we become more sophisticated in critical media analysis (which has been happening!) we can not just scrub.
I'm for taking harmful trash off the air (COPS, Live PD). But I also want us to really SEE the racism of liberal media creation, its reward & pleasure. //
I'm for taking harmful trash off the air (COPS, Live PD). But I also want us to really SEE the racism of liberal media creation, its reward & pleasure. //
