- [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] The Slow Factory Foundation recently issued a waning about digital blackface following
Princess Meghan Markle
...unlikable American former starlet married to the formerly likable Prince Harry. Chock full of lefty political opinions, Markle's most important characteristic is that she is Black, even though she doesn't look it. Her mother, y'see, is half black and her father is white, which would make her a quarter Black. Her half brother described her (to her husband, before their marriage) as a jaded, shallow, conceited woman that will make a joke of you and the royal family heritage. Once married, she was too good for the Royals and she and Harry decamped to Beverly Hills, kind of like the Clampetts did, thus making a joke of Harry and the royal family heritage...
and Prince Harry's
interview with Oprah Winfrey
- Non-profit defined digital blackface as an online phenomenon where white and non-black people share GIFs and photos of black people to express emotion
- The organization stated that these memes perpetuate 'negative stereotypes' about black people and are reminiscent of minstrel shows
- Idea of digital blackface has been around for years, but the term was popularized by writer Lauren Michele Jackson in her 2017 Teen Vogue essay
- The Slow Factory Foundation said people shouldn't be sharing Oprah reaction memes just because they are popular, prompting mixed reactions
- Some praised the organization for educating others about digital blackface, while others felt it was going too far and is
stupid actually a form of black erasure
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