Is Blackface Bad? | notcorry

[@notcorry]

do you think black face is bad? (i had to reupload this because youtube cut off the end)

[@Fauxpiixii]

Casual Jynx in the background. I forgot that shes not always been purple

[@mary5280.]

My dad (when he was like five) decide to paint his face black as his baseball role model. To this day he is embarrassed to talk about it.

[@pidgeonpatrol861]

Aw man my dyslexia acted up and I thought this was about if "Blackbeard" was bad. This is a good video but it is not about pirates.

[@alisschretien1210]

its like in the cosplay community ; you dont need to change your skin color to do a good cosplay

[@AlexaOrchid]

What about Gamora?

[@quackityalt7213]

@@AlexaOrchid LMAO got him. But still she is an alien so I guess it's an exception

[@AlexaOrchid]

@@quackityalt7213 I'm from the country where black people are mostly recent immigrants, so I get that I cannot quite understand the historical issue. But it kind of reminds me of saying "blowing on water after getting burned with milk". I believe that it is really important what you mean by your impression.

[@hollyrae8385]

The most beautiful man I have ever seen. Noah is a lucky guy!

[@nurailidepaepe2783]

Here in Belgium (and in the Netherlands) we have a holiday called sinterklaas (kinda like christmas) where a lot of people dress up as "zwarte piet" (black pete) so basically blackface. The story is that the black is soot tho so it's... Fine? (Even tho it's not) (Yes I did copy this comment from when he uploaded this and it cut in the middle of a sentence bcs I just knew it was gonna get reuploaded)

[@notcorry]

Thank u so much

[@nurailidepaepe2783]

@@notcorry aww you're welcome!

[@justjoske]

Yeah being Dutch you sort of grow up with it so it took me way too long to figure out how not okay it is.

[@nurailidepaepe2783]

@@justjoske same

[@Me-ss2gq]

*whispers* from history books you can see the origins of Zwarte Pieten isslaves that were brought to the Netherlands so yes it most definitely is blackface and the soot story was made to cover up

[@heywhatsup3043]

When I was little I watched a lot of old school cartoons. I really loved Betty boop but my mom would never let me watch the REALLY old episodes. I recently found out that the really old episodes were really racist and had black face and was just bad. Now I understand. Great video though💗👍👏

[@trudypearce6448]

This is not spoken about enough!! Your shirt is amazing btw

[@lopsupopsu]

I remember being like 11 and watching a youtube video about how Jynx is basically a blackface pokemon and I was traumatized. I was really surprised to hear that you have had personal experiences w blackface, because most blackface cases are from america, no that they don't exist elsewhere. I've never heard of anyone I know doing blackface, but there's this christmas play that's traditionally performed in my country. It's like a story from the bible and has something to do w Jesus. In it there's a character that is the 'King of Moors' and the person that plays him is in blackface. There was a controversy in christmas 2017 when this department store did a video of some of their employees as the characters from the play singing a song from it, and one employee, playing the King of the Moors was in blackface. There was a lot of backlash and the video was deleted. Many people were/are against changing the tradition of one of the performers being in blackface, which I can't understand. It's super racist, and it would literally not change the tradition at all if the blackface wasn't included. I had never even heard of the play before the controversy, probably because a) I don't celebrate christmas and b) the tradition is a big thing in an opposite part of the country from where I live in.

[@raincores]

6:08 is where it cut mid sentence

[@kirsty5170]

thank uuu ahahha

[@carohroh]

I actually quite liked the abrupt ending🙃

[@maybeilikedyourstupidface5507]

i first watched tropic thunder when i was 6. i have no idea why my mother put it on for me

[@notcorry]

It’s so good though

[@maybeilikedyourstupidface5507]

@@notcorry it is.

[@faithfirstfitness]

My brown face isn't a costume. I don't paint my face and tape my eyes to look Asian If I wanna play mulan (I would just dress up like her) and in China comedians dress as black people. Like we don't do that to others please don't do it to us, give us the same respect most of us try to give. If you want to be a black person for Halloween dress up like them that's great just don't paint your skin brown. That's all we ask. People have fought, died been looked down on , ridiculed and murdered for the simple fact they had brown skin it undermines their experience.

[@leoarnold6578]

Another great video that everyone should see

[@margaretthomas8899]

Mr notcorry this is probably the fairest, most even handed, considerate from every body's aspect on blackface, and I thank you sincerely! I was born in 1950 I am an Australian of English origin and grew up, and am still very much a big admirer of Al Jolson, and have had conflicting views re blackface, good, bad, or otherwise with his relationship to it. With the general perception of it is well, and with both it is not clear cut, or defining all bad, or all good,or something in between. It is entirely within the discretion of the democracy of each individuals choice. There is in fact nothing legally or lawfully condemning it totally! Having said all this however I think a common sense approach has to be applied, that being even though it I feel it has been miss - interpreted, documented too much on the bad aspect, including political aspects, and general humanity ones outside of Entertainment, there is now too much confusion and complication about it, it is better to belong in the past,and not be part of modern culture, or society in General. However as viewing it as window of the past it should remain in movies etc I feel, and let individuals decide for them selves. what I try and do is separate the politics, all the stuff outside of entertainment, and keep the stuff in it, in, if you understand, We have ethnic TV stations here etc that well covers the problems of different races, which moves me considerably. I cannot change history, but there has been a lot of in balance through history and I certainly acknowledge that. Over all my appreciation for Al Jolson [Jolie] is not only because he pretended to be a darker skinned person, but so much more, If he happened to not do it, it would not have made any difference to me. You can find a lot more about him at www.jolson.org and aljolson.weebly.com, a website I have on him. In the movies The Singing Kid, Big Boy, Go into your Dance and Hallelujah I'm a Bum, he has African American people with him like Cab Calloway, and Edgar O'Conner, etc and a real dignity and respect comes through, There is others as a minstrel etc, one could read into it the not so dignified aspects, but that is in the context of the movie and the times.There is also quite a few Facebook sites on Jolson, minstrelsy etc which tries to cover it all from all angles, and some good podcasts etc via ones like Wild About Jolson. There was 2 great movies made about him in the 1940's that we are trying to get on Blu Ray with extras, from Criterion,Please everybody help us to make this possible by googling Criterion to put the Jolson story on blu-ray and take it from there. Again I am not out to say blackface is all OK and should still be done, no it has had it's day, it is past history, but that does not mean for those who want to experience it, or past Entertainment in general it should not be totally impossible!

[@mrskkpst]

Your accent is so strong in this video

[@julia-jv9gp]

i hate blackface, and it's definetely wrong, but some people are overdramatic about it. once I just got a bit tanned in the summer and everyone in my class kept accusing me of blackface

[@evelyneb590]

You all should look up 'zwarte piet'. 'black pete' It's a Dutch tradition. Theres been heavy discussions about this over the pas 5 years or so and fortunately it's slowly starting to change..bit to slow..

[@notcorry]

I know all about black Pete and it’s so weird

[@jenniferchristian8115]

Do you think it’s okay for other people to dress up as a different character or celebrity or any sort of fancy dress of a different race to who they are without doing black face or ‘whitening’ themselves? x

[@geo3898]

Yes

[@caldvmon]

Oh dam, im doing GCSE art and racist art and stuff was brang up but i didnt think people actually dressed up still, dam. Loved the video though!

[@sufjanstevenslvr]

C Damon brought up*

[@caldvmon]

@@sufjanstevenslvr My bad.

[@jaydenv8557]

Great video! I think it’s really important that you’ve shared this, and I agree with you, blackface is just wrong and racist in every sense. I have a question though, if I want to paint my entire body in black paint for like a piece of artwork or something, would that count as blackface? For a little more context on what I’m meaning, you know how sometimes people paint human bodies in different colours and patterns and position them in different places and whatnot for the purpose of art, that’s sorta what I’m meaning.

[@notcorry]

That’s totally fine. There’s nuance to this. Intent and execution are two very important factors.

[@margaretthomas8899]

In time emorium. How do people in Performance represent the best way, anybody,thing different and be authentic as possioble?

[@sasha9883]

interesting video - would love to see one on the history of blackface as well

[@deadlymelody27]

Glad you mentioned always sunny, i did always view it as they are meant to be the worst people. But it's also clear that it still shouldn't be acceptable, even as a humour tool against those kind of people because it's still white people using black face for humour, even against racism. They didnt say the n word even though they had a joke about one of them wanting to say the n word. They still didn't use it, because it's offensive. So really the same thing should be followed with blackface. I'm white so honestly my opinion doesn't matter on it but i dont think those shows like always sunny and tropic thunder should be seen as completely awful, but that it shouldnt even be used like that now. We are past even those jokes now and talking about it should be enough to mock blackface, without a white person doing it, unless it was absolutely necessary to a dramatic role about a racist for example, not comedy. Although netflix removed an episode of Community where a chinese character blacked up to play a d&d elf, and the other characters go whoa... but he was literally black, not brown, he also didnt do exaggerated features like the original blackface, except pointy elf ears. So i feel it may be different. Not sure about that one.

[@kelseymattison4987]

Does anyone ever put on a face mask, look in the mirror and go Oh no...

[@isabelnecessary5915]

Would you consider it wrong/weird to dress up as black characters without blackface? Like say those school events where you dress up as your heroes, would it wrong for a white kid to go as Rosa Parks?

[@jesssmith3615]

isabel necessary I get dressing up as Moana or something but why Rosa Parks? That just seems insensitive either way

[@rickyli0n568]

The one dislike is Theresa May

[@mrscow8721]

Where did you get the hat? It's v cool :)

[@scottborden7198]

In the US the history of blackface is really horrible. Al Jolson appears not to have been a raging racist, but his performing in black face was an accommodation to raging racists. But recently we've had a slew of politicians who did black face in college and now seem to think it was OK. It is not. I'd be interested in your thoughts on "yellow face" (white actors portraying Asians) or "pink face" (straight male actors portraying gay men). Certainly there is a long history of LGBTQ folks playing "straight" characters - which I don't find offensive. In a complex world I'd love some simple answers - and it is simple enough to say black face is part of a truly shameful past that needs to be remembered so that it is not repeated.

[@thatoneguy7792]

Just commenting so if someone answers I can see it

[@signqueen6561]

💕 well said

[@elliotc212]

Glad I finally get to watch the video 😂

[@michelle-630]

Re-upload?

[@nurailidepaepe2783]

Yeah it cut mid-sentence at first

[@notcorry]

First one cut out halfway through

[@m16xx3]

if you are portraying a character you litterally dont have to look like the race- like if you where cosplaying noodle or russle you dont need to make yourself look asian or like a poc- cosplay can be done by people of every race and body type you dont need to look like the race/body type-

[@kam1279]

Woohoo I’m going to be cringe! 🤘MiXeD bAbIeS🤘

[@Mae-iw1ly]

What’s your opinion on the blackface in Little Britain? Also do you think peoples generation should be taken into account when they certain comments?

[@notcorry]

It’s so lazy and just not that funny bc the joke is just the race of the characters People’s age doesn’t excuse them from being offensive. It can explain their views but it’s not a get out of jail free card

[@whateverittakes5572]

@@notcorry looking back, I think the point of Little Britain was to mock the extreme stereotypes that people have, rather than mock people's races and cultures.

[@isthisjustfantasy7557]

@@whateverittakes5572 Exactly. I always saw it as mocking people's stereotypical views of other people rather than actually attacking minorities.

[@whateverittakes5572]

@@isthisjustfantasy7557 ok

[@rooshypatel4542]

@@notcorry Thing is it's subjective obviously if your mix raced like yourself then it's a your more likely to get offended, I personally thought that the sterotypes in little Britain were the extremes and it was pretty obvious that it was a joke not attacking minorities. I think Black facing is okay as long as there is no malliace in what you try to portray whether it be a joke or a cosplay

[@harrrrry]

Wasn't this yesterday tho

[@unintentionalprovocateur2158]

Are you American? I thought this was an American thing.

[@queenapryllm8454]

Yes it has fucked up history to it, he's not part of the group. It isn't good thing fair some case comedy have mocked people doing it, has having meaning if not condemnation . I don't put white powder to look on my face act like black widow. There a catalogue you can choose from

[@kelseymattison4987]

Cool cap

[@ebrehnj0hernh797]

i don't actually understand why blackface is bad. like umm black skin is not a bad thing and so is white skin. i understand that when people make fun of being black is EXTREMELY RACIST, but when people just make up their skin for a cosplay(???) or for something else that isn't supposed to be a joke, i think it's ok? also there're a lot of other races and skin colours. but im not black so i don't know if it's offensive or not.

[@ebrehnj0hernh797]

but also i don't actually understand the point of blackface. i understand when people do it for a cosplay or when people make their skin a little bit darker (or brighter) than their own skin just because they like it better. but when a white person makes their skin just black it's kinda pointless, isn't it? like why???? or when a black person makes their skin just white? if you're black then you're black like if you're white then you're white, lol. it's not a big deal these days, i think. it's just a skin colour IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE

[@notcorry]

yeah but racism is still a thing. While it is a lot better than it was before, horrific things are in very recent history

[@dizdozable]

Hi, i think this comment was made in good faith, but blackface was historically used to portray extremely offensive and racist stereotypes. It's not the same as the reverse (a POC using white face makeup) because of the historical context. Also dark skin is still seen as somehow negative or less desirable in many places and cultures around the world (eg colourism), and current use of blackface can often tie into that view. I hope that helps explain it further.

[@ebrehnj0hernh797]

Dizdoz oh okay, thank you!!

[@oyemate8647]

Dizdoz cool that you explained! But. I still dont think that we should be so obssesed with ,,not being offensive, remember black skin is seen as a bad thing’’ because it keeps this stereotype alive. Skin is just skin, people have very different skin colours and we should look deeper. Its somebodys culture that matters, not their skin ((for example many totally different culture have the same skin colour))