Sentences with phrase «blackface for»

Well this is just stupidly racist: Numero cast 16 - year - old white model Ondria Hardin in an editorial called «African Queen» and um, «styled» her in blackface for the shoot.

Again, the club won't get involved in this, even as it should be regarded as a downright embarrassment that Diego Simeone's talisman is out here donning blackface for a costume party.

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To add insult to injury, Wilson screened The Birth of a Nation — which glorifies the Ku Klux Klan and portrays actors in blackface, among its other racist offenses — in the White House and subsequently praised the film for being «so terribly true.»

Trump used his Twitter account to share an anti-CNN cartoon by an artist who in 2016 caused heartburn for Trump's presidential campaign by drawing Hillary Clinton in blackface.

He also got in trouble in 2013 for wearing blackface at a Purim party.

Last week, for instance, Joe Lieberman called on his Democratic primary opponent, Ned Lamont, to denounce one of his supporters who posted on the HuffingtonPost a doctored picture of the Connecticut senator in blackface.

Earlier this year, for a costume party to celebrate Purim, Hikind dressed in blackface.

His plans misfire when his «minstrel show for the new millenium» becomes a mega-hit, inspiring fans all over the country to don blackface call themselves «real» (n - words).

It was entertaining enough to hang around three stars for me, propelled by the fun chemistry between Astaire and Rogers (fun fact: I heard they hated each other in real life), but the completely unnecessary, racially insensitive Fred Astaire - in - blackface dance dropped the film an extra star.

If Mr. Lee meant to bring back blackface entertainment as a metaphor for the current black performers he finds obnoxious, he has miscalculated.

I can't imagine this blackface minstrel show would ever be a hit series, as it's simply not very funny in any way (and even for a show about blackface, it goes into cheap and lazy territory).

Henry's best friend is Ula, played by Rob Schneider in what amounts to a blackface performance as an ethnic Samoan, providing for the film its biggest laugh when Lucy takes a baseball bat to him.

Landing its sharp social commentary somewhere between Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Society, Get Out takes racism's more traditional forms — slavery, incarceration, exploitation, blackface — for a new, thoroughly modern appropriative spin.

Ditto for the skit where Megan dons blackface to enter the Violence Club, a place which is popular because «all the ballers get shot there.»

He advocated for the 13th Amendment and also promoted blackface minstrelsy.

Extra features on this non-SE include: a comprehensive commentary by director Hoblit and co-screenwriter Billy Ray, with the occasional comment from Bruce Willis sandwiched in; another yak - track from producer David Foster, who concentrates on the film's background in WWII history; ten deleted scenes (in 16x9) that reveal that an even more structurally and politically complex film lies on the cutting room floor, with elective commentary from Ray and Hoblit — they're especially sorry to see go, as am I, a bit in which the American soldiers entertain their German captors by donning blackface; a 4 - part photo gallery — see Bruce make serious expressions for «The Poster Shoot»; and trailers for Hart's War, Windtalkers, and the TV shows «Jeremiah» and «Stargate SG - 1».

We can not simply keep making excuses for incidents with blackface happening at our schools.

In it, a likeness of President Obama kneels in front of the ZOMBiES (who stand in front of a mash - up between the Confederate flag and that of ISIS) with a bag over his head, prepped for decapitation; Defense Distributed - designed guns are plucked out of 3D printers by potentially felonious hands; Robert Downey Jr. dons blackface in Tropic Thunder; and Eric Garner meets his death at the hands of the NYPD.

In what was intended as a pointed social satire, Vereen performed the famous show tune «Waiting for Robert E. Lee» in blackface during the first act, then sang the mournful song «Nobody» while removing the blackface during the second.

Perhaps paradoxically, she often achieves this through unabashedly excessive detail, like in One Day and Back Then (Standing), where her character stands in a field of sea reeds in blackface, looking out at us, wearing all black (including stiletto boots), ready for a night out on the town.

For his performance, Vereen also donned blackface, in order to access the vulnerability and reality of Williams» legacy.

At this event, Vereen, who had recently won a Tony Award for his performance in Pippin, staged a musical number in homage to the trailblazing vaudeville performer Bert Williams, who, because of racist laws dictating who could appear on stage, always performed in blackface.

Thomas read aloud the tag for a Maxwell House ad from the 1920s, where two butlers in blackface serve an immensely satisfied middle - aged white woman coffee.

In a North American context, for many people blackface is cultural touchstone that signals the symbolic domination of black bodies and its ugly, not so distant, history.

Snapchat in particular may have good reason to be wary of the incident: In the past few years it's gotten in trouble for things like yellowface and blackface filters.

I'm a little late to the Nic Naitanui «blackface» debate, but it's been playing on my mind for days, so I need to get it off my chest.

For some bizarre reason, I performed ballet to Send in the Clowns, while another girl lip - synced in blackface.