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March 12, 2021Oprah’s facial expression from her interview with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry has fast become a very popular image to use for many funny memes and videos.
These various memes and videos, like this one, are simply FUNNY.
However, we all know, the left is HUMORLESS. They are without joy.
The group, The Slow Factory Foundation, has declared you shouldn’t post memes with Oprah’s now viral expression if you are white. Why? Well, because that is called black face…digital black face.
The Slow Factory Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to social and environmental justice, this week issues a warning about digital blackface, describing it as an online phenomenon where white and non-black people share GIFs and photos of black people to express emotion, and stating that it often perpetuates negative stereotypes that they are ‘aggressive, loud, and sassy.’
In an Instagram post, the organization used an Oprah meme as a direct example of ‘digital blackface’ – sparking a furious debate in the comments where some agreed with the message, while others hit back, claiming that banning non-black people from posting the memes equates to ‘black erasure’.
Black erasure is correct. But isn’t that what we are doing when we erase Uncle Ben and Aunt Jemima?
The Slow Factory folks, who are indeed slow, outlined what digital blackface is on their Insta account. You can view it here if you are inclined to lose brain cells today.
People need to stop creating controversy where there is no controversy. Stop stoking racial division where there is no division. Oprah is loved and adored by millions of Americans, first and foremost, white women!
Get a grip people!
