‘Late Night’ Writer Expertly Dissects Megyn Kelly’s Racist Blackface Comments

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Amber Ruffin, a writer on “Late Night with Seth Meyers,” explained just why NBC host Megyn Kelly’s defense of using blackface in Halloween costumes is racist.

“It turns black people into a costume and divorces them from their humanity,” said Ruffin on Tuesday’s show. “We’re people, not costumes.”

Ruffin noted that Kelly’s widely criticized comments to her all-white panel on “Megyn Kelly Today” earlier Tuesday ignored “the severely racist context in which blackface was introduced into this country” and that “actions don’t exist separate to their context.”


Kelly has apologized for her remarks. But Ruffin said she “wouldn’t have had to do that if she had invited a black person into the conversation in the first place.”

“For someone with a morning show Megyn Kelly, you sure are late as hell,” she added.

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Kelley is right on this one. It's the spirit of the costume.

If you get a bunch of CAC that put on darker makeup and act like a bunch of thugs, etc, those are the costumes we have issues with.

If some white girl's hero is Diana Ross and she can somehow tastefully darken her skin to look a little more like her favorite performer, that's not racism.
 
Kelley is right on this one. It's the spirit of the costume.

If you get a bunch of CAC that put on darker makeup and act like a bunch of thugs, etc, those are the costumes we have issues with.

If some white girl's hero is Diana Ross and she can somehow tastefully darken her skin to look a little more like her favorite performer, that's not racism.
You're an idiot.
 
Kelley is right on this one. It's the spirit of the costume.

If you get a bunch of CAC that put on darker makeup and act like a bunch of thugs, etc, those are the costumes we have issues with.

If some white girl's hero is Diana Ross and she can somehow tastefully darken her skin to look a little more like her favorite performer, that's not racism.

You sound like a damn fool.

There’s no way for cacs to put on blackface without dehumanizing black people.
 
You're an idiot.

You sound like a damn fool.

There’s no way for cacs to put on blackface without dehumanizing black people.

Did you have an issue with this?

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Did you have an issue with this?

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This isnt the issue. Nor is this what you stated and i quoted and responded to.

You said Kelly was right. She wasnt.

You stated that the offense is based on the characters depicted by the offending party. It isnt.

Black face is racist. Period. Kelly not only said it wasnt, but she concocted a false equivalence of "whiteface" to further distort and deny the abject racism of the act. She also stated that blackface has never been offensive in her lifetime and did an entire segment on a historically purposely racist practice without even acknowledging its origin while focusing ONLY on her feelings and rights as a white person to perform the act.

Again, you saying she was right was idiotic.
 
Right... This was tastefully done and there was no intent to dehumanize Black people.
I don't know one Black person that was offended by this character.

Because it was clearly satirizing extreme method acting in general and lampooned Downey's character for being so wrongheaded. A black actor character in the movie constantly called him out on it as well iirc.

There's a level of nuance and commentary here that plain old Becky and Chad are going miss when they go to a Halloween party dressed as LeBron James and Serena Williams (which is fine MINUS the skin paint).
 
Peace,

This isnt the issue. Nor is this what you stated and i quoted and responded to.

You said Kelly was right. She wasnt.

You stated that the offense is based on the characters depicted by the offending party. It isnt.

Black face is racist. Period. Kelly not only said it wasnt, but she concocted a false equivalence of "whiteface" to further distort and deny the abject racism of the act. She also stated that blackface has never been offensive in her lifetime and did an entire segment on a historically purposely racist practice without even acknowledging its origin while focusing ONLY on her feelings and rights as a white person to perform the act.

Again, you saying she was right was idiotic.

Thanks. You saved me some typing.
 
This isnt the issue. Nor is this what you stated and i quoted and responded to.

You said Kelly was right. She wasnt.

You stated that the offense is based on the characters depicted by the offending party. It isnt.

Black face is racist. Period. Kelly not only said it wasnt, but she concocted a false equivalence of "whiteface" to further distort and deny the abject racism of the act. She also stated that blackface has never been offensive in her lifetime and did an entire segment on a historically purposely racist practice without even acknowledging its origin while focusing ONLY on her feelings and rights as a white person to perform the act.

Again, you saying she was right was idiotic.
#truth
 
1) Are you confusing a fictional character in a film with REAL LIFE ?
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2) This statement below from you :smh:

"...and she can somehow tastefully darken her skin to look a little more like her favorite performer, that's not racism."


 
This isnt the issue. Nor is this what you stated and i quoted and responded to.

You said Kelly was right. She wasnt.

You stated that the offense is based on the characters depicted by the offending party. It isnt.

Black face is racist. Period. Kelly not only said it wasnt, but she concocted a false equivalence of "whiteface" to further distort and deny the abject racism of the act. She also stated that blackface has never been offensive in her lifetime and did an entire segment on a historically purposely racist practice without even acknowledging its origin while focusing ONLY on her feelings and rights as a white person to perform the act.

Again, you saying she was right was idiotic.

Man please.... You 100% know what I'm talking about. I didn't listen to that entire segment. All I heard her say is the Diana Ross part.

That part is the same as Robert Downey Jr. doing that character.

OF COURSE "BLACKFACE" IS RACIST. You know was the fuck I am saying.

I stated that it's all about INTENT.
 
1) Are you confusing a fictional character in a film with REAL LIFE ?
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2) This statement below from you :smh:

"...and she can somehow tastefully darken her skin to look a little more like her favorite performer, that's not racism."

What is the fucking difference?! You cats with your fake outrage is hilarious.

What did Downey do? They TASTEFULLY darkened his natural skin color to look more like that of a Black person. Where was all the fake outrage then?!!!
 
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“Who here is white?” asked Miss Sumpter, the 3rd-grade social studies teacher at Millbrooks Elementary School in Champaign, Ill., to her students while conducting a mock census.

Each hand in the all-white classroom limped up, confirming their whiteness, though most of the students were just slightly confused by Miss Sumpter’s question. Well, each hand except for one. When little Meg Kelly heard this question, her heart raced, the hair on her arms stood at attention, her nostrils flared, her tiny little blonde pigtails morphed into horns. She then lept from her chair and onto her desk, where she screamed, “ME! ME! ME! ME! ME! I AM WHITE! I AM WHITE! I AM WHITE!”

The rest of the classroom, by now used to Meg’s blood-curdling thirst for opportunities for her whiteness to be acknowledged, put their hands back down and continued doing whatever they had been doing before the question. The now dead-eyed Miss Sumpter simply said, “Thank you, Megyn,” and continued daydreaming about Pete Maravich.

Little Meg Kelly didn’t have much interest in school. Math bored her. Science annoyed her. English composition gave her acid reflux. What made her race to the school bus each morning—what made her so overcome with glee that her parents would crush Ambien into her breakfast cereal—is that each new day provided a new opportunity to remind her classmates, her friends, her teachers, as well as the bus drivers, and the school nurse, and the assistant principal - and sometimes even the squirrels in the park during recess - that she was, is, and will always be, white.

“I’m Megyn Kelly, and I’m white!” she said in homeroom on the first day, when Mr. Elkstein asked the students to state their names.

“Can I have some more celery? Also I’m white!” she said to the lunch ladies yesterday, who then told her that the celery was dead.

When playing “Tag” after school, instead of saying, “You’re it,” she’d say, “I’m white!” When bored in class—which was often, because she was dumb—she’d take a bottle of whiteout and write “white” repeatedly on her forearms. It gave her a bad allergic reaction once. Her parents sighed and said “Maybe we should just, you know, let her die” before breaking down and giving her Benadryl.

Still, she’d never had a day like mock census day, where instead of declaring and stating and writing and volunteering and reminding and acknowledging and whispering and screaming that she’s white, someone actually asked her. “Finally, they see me!” Little Meg thought as she lept from her seat. “Finally they know me! Finally, they understand!”

After she finished screaming, she sat back down. Then she liquified into a clear vat of White Out. And she was so happy.
 
What is the fucking difference?! You cats with your fake outrage is hilarious.

What did Downey do? They TASTEFULLY darkened his natural skin color to look more like that of a Black person. Where was all the fake outrage then?!!!

I'm not outraged. The bitch is just DEAD WRONG!
Anyone trying to clarify or justify her statement is wrong as well.
And a character in a film - I have to watch it again to refresh, but the reason Downey was in blackface was PART OF THE PRODUCTION/SCRIPT.
It's not whether you use shoe polish or mud to darken your skin ("TASTEFULLY darkened").
Is it too dark? Does it look realistic & tasteful isn't the issue.
(please don't come back asking what the issue is...)
 
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I'm not outraged. The bitch is just DEAD WRONG!
ANyone trying to clarify or justify her statement is wrong as well.
And a character in a film - I have to watch it again to refresh, but the reason Downey was in blackface was PART OF THE PRODUCTION/SCRIPT.
It's not whether you use shoe polish or mud to darken your skin ("TASTEFULLY darkened").
Is it too dark? Does it look realistic & tasteful isn't the issue.
(please don't come back asking what the issue is...)
First off, fuck that bitch. You keep bringing her up. I already which part I agree with.
Do did you agree with the Downy character or no?
 
Do did you agree with the Downy character or no?

Intent (Diana Ross) may be well meant but I think the person's lack of knowledge of the history of blackface makes them think it's OK.
Here's some twitter responses:

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Roland Martin & Amy Holmes were on there today to give her some context.
She shed some tears (catch 'em in a cup-drink up!) :lol:
Here it is:

 
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Damon Young

Yesterday 4:15pm
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Screenshot: TODAY (YouTube)
“Who here is white?” asked Miss Sumpter, the 3rd-grade social studies teacher at Millbrooks Elementary School in Champaign, Ill., to her students while conducting a mock census.

Each hand in the all-white classroom limped up, confirming their whiteness, though most of the students were just slightly confused by Miss Sumpter’s question. Well, each hand except for one. When little Meg Kelly heard this question, her heart raced, the hair on her arms stood at attention, her nostrils flared, her tiny little blonde pigtails morphed into horns. She then lept from her chair and onto her desk, where she screamed, “ME! ME! ME! ME! ME! I AM WHITE! I AM WHITE! I AM WHITE!”

The rest of the classroom, by now used to Meg’s blood-curdling thirst for opportunities for her whiteness to be acknowledged, put their hands back down and continued doing whatever they had been doing before the question. The now dead-eyed Miss Sumpter simply said, “Thank you, Megyn,” and continued daydreaming about Pete Maravich.

Little Meg Kelly didn’t have much interest in school. Math bored her. Science annoyed her. English composition gave her acid reflux. What made her race to the school bus each morning—what made her so overcome with glee that her parents would crush Ambien into her breakfast cereal—is that each new day provided a new opportunity to remind her classmates, her friends, her teachers, as well as the bus drivers, and the school nurse, and the assistant principal - and sometimes even the squirrels in the park during recess - that she was, is, and will always be, white.

“I’m Megyn Kelly, and I’m white!” she said in homeroom on the first day, when Mr. Elkstein asked the students to state their names.

“Can I have some more celery? Also I’m white!” she said to the lunch ladies yesterday, who then told her that the celery was dead.

When playing “Tag” after school, instead of saying, “You’re it,” she’d say, “I’m white!” When bored in class—which was often, because she was dumb—she’d take a bottle of whiteout and write “white” repeatedly on her forearms. It gave her a bad allergic reaction once. Her parents sighed and said “Maybe we should just, you know, let her die” before breaking down and giving her Benadryl.

Still, she’d never had a day like mock census day, where instead of declaring and stating and writing and volunteering and reminding and acknowledging and whispering and screaming that she’s white, someone actually asked her. “Finally, they see me!” Little Meg thought as she lept from her seat. “Finally they know me! Finally, they understand!”

After she finished screaming, she sat back down. Then she liquified into a clear vat of White Out. And she was so happy.


How can anyone take this writer seriously after writing that bullshit last year saying Black Men are the white people of black people....


Anything from root and verysmartbrothas shouldn't be taking seriously.
 
It’s what 2018/19 and we as Black folk still have to educate and explain what’s right and what’s wrong to people who have been here longer than us? GTF out of here! Fuck it all and anyone who compromise with this shit!
So did you protest the Downy character or that movie? Just curious.
 
How can anyone take this writer seriously after writing that bullshit last year saying Black Men are the white people of black people....


Anything from root and verysmartbrothas shouldn't be taking seriously.

Agreed!

In the context of this topic he was alright, but I am sorely disappointed in the direction Damon has decided to take vsb:smh:
 
There are thousands upon thousands of costumes from which to choose. Why would anyone NEED to wear blackface? Especially knowing it's offensive. What does that say about them?
 
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