Darned it all anyways, it’s 3:00 a.m. My filters won’t turn on, until my brain is fully woke. Here then, are my unfiltered thoughts…

I started imagining myself at a white people party where someone shows up in black face. Blackface has no props, no magic wand, no magic powers, no magic cape. Black grease paint is all he needs to pretend, “I am black tonight.” How do you suppose, blackface will behave? Whose act will he adopt?

Silvercloud, I gotta be honest, with you and me, and say, if blackface assumed the persona of say, Adolf Reed Jr., Aliko Dangote, Frederick Douglass, or Byran Stevenson I would have no objections. Would you?

But those are not personas white people in blackface assume – are they? No sir, indeed. Blackface white people assume the persona of black people as they see them. IOW, they are playing themselves.

That is the reason, blackface is so disturbing. The whole point of a costume is to pretend we are somebody else for a while. White people wear blackface so they can be, wholly and completely themselves – to them blackface is liberating.

Hey, for what its worth, I keep wishing you’d post your photos when you’re on Twitter.