Tuesday, November 9, 2021

Black Like Me

I never gave the Kardashians a fair chance. I did watch one of their TV shows for ten minutes. Nothing happened.

I can say this. The Kardashian family originally immigrated to America from the Caucasus. You can't get more Caucasian than that.

The  Caucasus are the mountain range where Prometheus was chained by the Gods to punish him for giving people fire. 

Apparently the Kardashians sometimes wear their hair in cornrows, Fulani braids, etc. They may spray-tan themselves until their skin is the color of good wood stain, and the women have married Black men and now are the mothers of Black children. 

All this has led some entertainers to call attention to what they call  brownface, cultural appropriation and blackfishing. These are interesting words. I hope they have homes in current dictionaries. 

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