Reminder me again how the fuck they got away with this?
Fred kept this up until 2012.
2012.
Just five years ago, a Venezuelan-German-Japanese man wore blackface every Saturday to play Barack Obama on the most popular and influential late night comedy show--and nobody gave a shit.
Imagine if this happened today?
Imagine if, say, Beck Bennett started playing Obama?
Imagine the outrage.
So, how the FUCK did they get away with this?
SNL Obama Blackface
Oliver Walker
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Nathan Bailey
>So, how the FUCK did they get away with this?
Why are you so puffed up over it? Who cares?
Brandon Martinez
>So, how the FUCK did they get away with this?
He actually looked like Obama, who was half white anyway.
Kayden Murphy
he was already semi-brown to begin with
Dominic Sullivan
He's not wearing blackface.
Hudson Ramirez
>So, how the FUCK did they get away with this?
White supremacy was much more rampant back then. Hopefully Trump and Pence will get impeached soon, and Paul Ryan will call a special election, allowing Clinton to get in. Once that happens, white supremacy can finally get dismantled
Angel Walker
>Its another "op tries to make people get angry over nothing" episode
Bentley Barnes
Because it's absolutely mind-bottling that a non-black man played the most famous black guy in the world and nobody gave a shit--and it was only 5 years ago.
If Fred did it today on Portlandia his career would be over.
Noah Taylor
because it wasn't done to perform a racist caricature
it was done to better resemble somebody from real life
Jayden Brooks
>the most famous black guy in the world
Muhammad Ali, Michael Jackson, and Redd Foxx are way more famous than 44