CNN WRITER - Whites Using Black Memes IS 'DIGITAL BLACKFACE,' STOP IT

[Artificial Intelligence]

What's 'digital blackface?' And why is it wrong when White people use it? | CNN

If you're White and you've posted a GIF or meme of a Black person to express a strong emotion, you may be guilty of wearing 'digital blackface' -- a modern-day term for an insidious form of racism.

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CNN Writer Says White People Using Black Memes is 'Digital Blackface'

A new CNN piece says 'digital blackface' needs to be done away with. It's the phenomenon of white people using Black memes and/or GIFs to react to things on the Internet -- which has become common practice on Twitter and elsewhere.

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Is using coli smileys digital blackface too

 

[gho3st]

 

[Family Lives Matter]

Twitter and this site is digital black face

 

[Artificial Intelligence]

Twitter and this site is digital black face

 

[High Art]

A bunch of coli posters about to feel offended by this article.

 

[MajesticLion]

 

[Artificial Intelligence]

A bunch of coli posters about to feel offended by this article.

How you do that with your sig

 

[Paper Boi]

i see rupaul's drag race on there...

 

[Piff Perkins]

Get these new blacks outta here

 

[High Art]

How you do that with your sig

Magic.
But seriously, it's a series of custom smilies.

 

[Justin Nitsuj]

I'm not too offended by this. I ain't gotta put on a mask to hide behind shyt like these p*ssy ass cacs do.

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

I agree

 

[boogers]

i get it. im not a cac but i am brown and i know the coli is a black space.. i just try to be respectful. i consider being able to post here a privilege.