Tanesha: While We’re Stuck On Blackface, Black Faces Continue to Suffer in a Racist School System

This post was originally published on Tanesha’s blog Hope + Outrage. Yeah, I said it. All week, on social media and news outlets, there’s been coverage of Virginia’s Governor, Ralph Northam, denying claims of wearing blackface in the ’80s and refusing to resign over the controversy. NAACP ✔@NAACP “For African Americans [Blackface and a Klan uniform] is the symbol of domestic terrorism…and for Northam and [Mark Herring], they … Continue reading Tanesha: While We’re Stuck On Blackface, Black Faces Continue to Suffer in a Racist School System

Vivett: Hey, Racist White People, Burn your Black Face Makeup Kits The Way You Burn Your Crosses And Just Stop!

How is it that a White teacher — at a professed Christian school, no less — can go before her students dressed up in Black face and a dashiki during an assembly about Africa?  In New York, as well as other states, the act of “conduct unbecoming” is a judgement that can get a teacher investigated and, eventually, suspended.  California, for example, calls this process … Continue reading Vivett: Hey, Racist White People, Burn your Black Face Makeup Kits The Way You Burn Your Crosses And Just Stop!