Bacially almost all the major black and white characters were born out of homages to minstrelsy. I talk about this in my Character Design classes actually
How am I just now learning Mickey Mouse is an homage to blackface 😭😭
September 23, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Bacially almost all the major black and white characters were born out of homages to minstrelsy. I talk about this in my Character Design classes actually
My man looks like he’s promoting a fast casual restaurant chain whose theme is “the magic of minstrelsy”
January 1, 2026 at 7:19 PM
My man looks like he’s promoting a fast casual restaurant chain whose theme is “the magic of minstrelsy”
Though “performative buffoonery” doesn’t quite capture the level of degradation. I think I’d call it legal minstrelsy, deliberately demeaning to a profession rather than to an ethnicity.
For now this is performative buffoonery.
So if you criticize Elon Musk, Trump’s DOJ will send you this letter. Members of Congress must have the right to forcefully oppose the Trump Administration. I will not be silenced.
February 20, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Though “performative buffoonery” doesn’t quite capture the level of degradation. I think I’d call it legal minstrelsy, deliberately demeaning to a profession rather than to an ethnicity.
Digital Minstrelsy: Performing Black Art
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Digital Minstrelsy: Performing Black Art
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March 22, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Digital Minstrelsy: Performing Black Art
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And it is a LIE. There are Black surfers.
Erasure and AI blackfishing (blackface minstrelsy 3.0).
Erasure and AI blackfishing (blackface minstrelsy 3.0).
April 21, 2025 at 3:16 PM
And it is a LIE. There are Black surfers.
Erasure and AI blackfishing (blackface minstrelsy 3.0).
Erasure and AI blackfishing (blackface minstrelsy 3.0).
You do not in fact have to hand it to minstrelsy
December 24, 2025 at 3:15 AM
You do not in fact have to hand it to minstrelsy
Linda McMahon has spent her working life promoting racial minstrelsy. She's not trying to learn about Ruby Bridges. Wrote about her ignorant, monstrous racist politics here. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
June 4, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Linda McMahon has spent her working life promoting racial minstrelsy. She's not trying to learn about Ruby Bridges. Wrote about her ignorant, monstrous racist politics here. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
I guessed "blackface minstrelsy" and then watched the video and yep, blackface minstrelsy. I used to teach about it in my dance history classes and students were always appalled and had never heard of it before
September 23, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I guessed "blackface minstrelsy" and then watched the video and yep, blackface minstrelsy. I used to teach about it in my dance history classes and students were always appalled and had never heard of it before
is "whiteface" like reverse minstrelsy?
November 2, 2025 at 11:26 PM
is "whiteface" like reverse minstrelsy?
So you can teach AI minstrelsy. Just incredible stuff.
*incredibly ugly wheezing sound* Jee-sus christ theplaylist.net/paul-schrade...
September 6, 2026 at 5:49 PM
So you can teach AI minstrelsy. Just incredible stuff.
a great 🧵 about minstrelsy
So im watching Who Framed Roger Rabbit if you cant tell by my last post.
But because you know me by now....I gotta take it there lol.
Remember the scene where the judge was looking for Roger in the bar and used the "Shave and a Haircut, two bits" riff to lure him out? 🧵
But because you know me by now....I gotta take it there lol.
Remember the scene where the judge was looking for Roger in the bar and used the "Shave and a Haircut, two bits" riff to lure him out? 🧵
June 1, 2026 at 2:34 AM
a great 🧵 about minstrelsy
👏 Stop 👏 making 👏 me 👏 quote 👏 from 👏 Museum 👏 of 👏 Degenerates 👏
January 23, 2025 at 2:04 AM
👏 Stop 👏 making 👏 me 👏 quote 👏 from 👏 Museum 👏 of 👏 Degenerates 👏
Actually no, I'm going to be kind and do just that.
Birth of an Industry: Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation | Books Gateway | Duke University Press share.google/TaDUzSpZK58E...
Birth of an Industry: Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation | Books Gateway | Duke University Press share.google/TaDUzSpZK58E...
Birth of an Industry: Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation
In Birth of an Industry, Nicholas Sammond describes how popular early American cartoon characters were derived from blackface minstrelsy. He charts the ind
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September 23, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Actually no, I'm going to be kind and do just that.
Birth of an Industry: Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation | Books Gateway | Duke University Press share.google/TaDUzSpZK58E...
Birth of an Industry: Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation | Books Gateway | Duke University Press share.google/TaDUzSpZK58E...
Being a bigot gotta be exhausting, man. Damn near all art is closed to you. And the art that is acceptable is still perversely obsessed with what you hate (ex: minstrelsy).
October 9, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Being a bigot gotta be exhausting, man. Damn near all art is closed to you. And the art that is acceptable is still perversely obsessed with what you hate (ex: minstrelsy).
Tech companies are burning forests-worth of carbon to generate AI minstrelsy instead of learning to be a not-toxic industry for actual Black people.
January 3, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Tech companies are burning forests-worth of carbon to generate AI minstrelsy instead of learning to be a not-toxic industry for actual Black people.
Nicholas Sammond argues that most of the famous early animation characters – Mickey Mouse, Felix the Cat, Bugs Bunny – carried distinguishing visual & acting features inherited from practice of American Blackface Minstrelsy.
journals.openedition.org/inmedia/892
read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/1...
journals.openedition.org/inmedia/892
read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/1...
January 1, 2024 at 4:37 PM
Nicholas Sammond argues that most of the famous early animation characters – Mickey Mouse, Felix the Cat, Bugs Bunny – carried distinguishing visual & acting features inherited from practice of American Blackface Minstrelsy.
journals.openedition.org/inmedia/892
read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/1...
journals.openedition.org/inmedia/892
read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/1...
Ew.
It's giving modern-day minstrelsy.
And, it's even more wack when you know that their culture is so conservative, they don't even kiss on TV.
It's giving modern-day minstrelsy.
And, it's even more wack when you know that their culture is so conservative, they don't even kiss on TV.
October 2, 2026 at 5:39 PM
Ew.
It's giving modern-day minstrelsy.
And, it's even more wack when you know that their culture is so conservative, they don't even kiss on TV.
It's giving modern-day minstrelsy.
And, it's even more wack when you know that their culture is so conservative, they don't even kiss on TV.
Interesting that one of their first tests was a “queer, black woman truth teller” whos entire predication is a lie.
This is gross as shit. Digital blackface, digital minstrelsy, pick a fuckin’ lane
This is gross as shit. Digital blackface, digital minstrelsy, pick a fuckin’ lane
I remember when we were trying to tell folks that amongst the minorities, Black people would be amongst the first to be displaced by gen AI.
Now look at this BS.
Meta have created a model minority person which, if we’re being honest, is made to fit into the white gaze. 🫠
Now look at this BS.
Meta have created a model minority person which, if we’re being honest, is made to fit into the white gaze. 🫠
January 3, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Interesting that one of their first tests was a “queer, black woman truth teller” whos entire predication is a lie.
This is gross as shit. Digital blackface, digital minstrelsy, pick a fuckin’ lane
This is gross as shit. Digital blackface, digital minstrelsy, pick a fuckin’ lane
Speaking of minstrelsy and its long afterlife!
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"You know Eve," he says. "If they meet the Eve I have the pleasure of talking to tonight, they sure as hell gon' love you. But. BUT. One day you're gon' go on that thing [he means the Twitter app, I think] and you're gon' say that you saw a Yew-Eff-Oh out here in Charlotte, and all-a-sudden people gon' think you crazy, Eve. They'll say - Eve lost her goddamn mind! And they ain't gon' trust you no mo', no ma'am." He laughs so hard. I laugh. He's right. He doesn't know how right he is. He's telling the story of my life and he just met me.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:otjqtwtgkoijkucppmxiq5fy/bafkreibjw3ju33ewsbf6p6xvrg4jpaxa3cwng32ppiou7fnzslyclapgpe)
September 23, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Speaking of minstrelsy and its long afterlife!
white and nonblack people using aave ironically is a form of minstrelsy in this essay i will-
April 13, 2025 at 6:15 PM
white and nonblack people using aave ironically is a form of minstrelsy in this essay i will-
very high odds it is retroactively seen as minstrelsy
August 22, 2024 at 2:26 AM
very high odds it is retroactively seen as minstrelsy
It’s insane because the mouth and hat couldn’t remotely be understood as clownish unless you think of minstrelsy.
August 25, 2026 at 2:52 AM
It’s insane because the mouth and hat couldn’t remotely be understood as clownish unless you think of minstrelsy.
I don't know what to call Thompson's speech, but minstrelsy.
Of all the issues the American press honed in on to painful excess, it's Biden's age; like giving a speech in 2017 about how the press didn't do enough about Clinton's email password.
Of all the issues the American press honed in on to painful excess, it's Biden's age; like giving a speech in 2017 about how the press didn't do enough about Clinton's email password.
Who thinks this is the main thing the political press should be reckoning with and apologizing for over the past year?
www.mediaite.com/news/axios-r...
www.mediaite.com/news/axios-r...
Axios' Alex Thompson Slams Media Coverage of Biden Decline
A prominent DC reporter called out himself and his peers in stunning fashion Saturday night at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
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April 28, 2025 at 10:38 AM
I don't know what to call Thompson's speech, but minstrelsy.
Of all the issues the American press honed in on to painful excess, it's Biden's age; like giving a speech in 2017 about how the press didn't do enough about Clinton's email password.
Of all the issues the American press honed in on to painful excess, it's Biden's age; like giving a speech in 2017 about how the press didn't do enough about Clinton's email password.
So in essence, a black man who couldnt be a black man in public, circumvented the minstrelsy trope but got corralled back in anyway in hindsight after death when later Felix loosely based off his imitated character design began to copy Mickey Mouse tropes instead of the other way around.
September 23, 2025 at 3:55 PM
So in essence, a black man who couldnt be a black man in public, circumvented the minstrelsy trope but got corralled back in anyway in hindsight after death when later Felix loosely based off his imitated character design began to copy Mickey Mouse tropes instead of the other way around.