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THE TRUTH ABOUT BLACKFACE

The Minstrel Shows were the largest American theater movement in history, spanning over a century that would evolve into Vaudeville. It consisted of racist comedy skits, dancing, and music, performed by white people painted in blackface. Minstrel shows painted black people as dim-witted, lazy, criminal, sexual deviants, and superstitious. The first minstrel show was performed in 1828. The name of the founding character was "Jim Crow".

By 1848, blackface minstrel shows were a national art form, overtaking opera in popularity. It infiltrated film, television, and radio all the way through silent films and the 21st century. Amateur performances continued until the 1960s in high schools, and local theaters throughout the south.

The social impact of over 140 years of racist belittling and mocking the black community in the country's highest form of entertainment, undeniably has left a subconscious and conscious scar on America's view of black people in America and around the world.

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