"Oprah Winfrey’s interview last week with Harry and Meghan was apparently a big hit.
But...It seems that if a white guy like me used Oprah to do some meme-spreading, I would be guilty of practicing “digital blackface.”
Digital blackface is sort of like regular blackface
- except a real person isn’t wearing blackface.
- Neither is anything “digital.”
- In fact, it has nothing whatsoever to do with reality.
It’s a make-believe term used exclusively in the make-believe world of race-shaming.
Daily Mail--In an Instagram post, the organization used an Oprah meme as a direct example of ‘digital blackface’ – sparking a furious debate in the comments where some agreed with the message, while others hit back, claiming that banning non-black people from posting the memes equates to ‘black erasure’.
‘Performing Blackness, be it IRL or online, is not an acceptable form of expressing reaction or dissatisfaction, especially not in exchange for likes and retweets,’ the organization wrote in its post....Read all.
Daily Mail--In an Instagram post, the organization used an Oprah meme as a direct example of ‘digital blackface’ – sparking a furious debate in the comments where some agreed with the message, while others hit back, claiming that banning non-black people from posting the memes equates to ‘black erasure’.
‘Performing Blackness, be it IRL or online, is not an acceptable form of expressing reaction or dissatisfaction, especially not in exchange for likes and retweets,’ the organization wrote in its post....Read all.
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