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6 Comments
articiansays...Huh. Whichever thing @Magicpants says it is, they need to turn it into a program/project for transforming racists into educated people.
chingalerasays...Gee, yer batting a thousand tonight, keep up the Smugly Smuglinstein yer just ssoooooo fucking good at it.
Huh. Whichever thing @Magicpants says it is, they need to turn it into a program/project for transforming racists into educated people.
siftbotsays...Moving this video to Magicpants's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.
Sagemindsays...This had no meaning without context.
What is this from, Why did they do this.
What was the result?
antsays...Ew!
9547bissays...Context:
After looking up the title on Youtube ("Dans la peau d'un Noir"), it turned out to be a documentary from 2007 where two French families, one black one white, "switched" their skin colors to experiment with discrimination (or its sudden absence, as the case may be). Its Wikipedia page mention John Howard Griffin's "Black Like Me" as an inspiration.
Additional note which I feel obliged to mention for American viewers: there were no minstrel shows, and so there is no concept of "blackface", in Europe. Of course disguising yourself into some sort of racial stereotype would bring the same type of reaction as anywhere else (or so I hope), but just changing your skin tone would not be considered offensive in itself.
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