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Originally Posted by DrPhil
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No, everything that is made darker is not blackface. Blackface is a historical and contemporary intentional process of darkening one's skin to imitate, mimick, and mock. It is not flattery.
It looks like blackface at the surface but it is not blackface. If this could be considered blackface, I would say that all people of the white diaspora (those who are relatively light or consider themselves pale) and do things to make their skin darker are doing so to imitate, mimick, and mock the browner and blacker people in this world.
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The situation that *really* confused me as to whether it counted blackface was Robert Downey Jr. in Tropic Thunder. In short Robert Downey Jr. (White) in the film plays an method actor Kirk Lazarus (White) who has himself surgically altered to appear black so he can properly play a role in the Movie within a Movie. But they apparently pre-screened it for black journalists and officers of the NAACP who found it OK. Apparently it was considerred to imitate, mimick and mock method actors (regardless or race)...
--KnightShadow
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