This conversation extends well past Song of the South and Gone With the Wind into the 21st century: Blackface is not just a historical atrocity but a present-day compulsion still frequently reproduced by white comedians and showrunners. Zach Braff in the Scrubs episode “My Jiggly Ball,” moments before dreaming up a half-Elliot, half-Turk character named Turkiot, played by Sarah Chalke in blackface.Īs the Black Lives Matter movement has launched a reckoning in Hollywood over institutionalized racism, it has also sparked a debate about whether anti-Black tropes and imagery in movies and TV should be censored, disclaimer-ed, or removed from streaming libraries entirely.
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