Tina Fey, 30 Rock co-creator Robert Carlock and NBCUniversal are asking that four episodes featuring blackface on 30 Rock be removed from streaming services and syndication.
including an episode satirizing cultural appropriation in which Titus Burgess's character dressed as a geisha.between 1999 and 2004, including one in which Kimmel wore blackface to play Oprah Winfrey and basketball great Karl Malone, and for using the n-word while rapping in character as Snoop Dogg on Kimmel's 1996 Christmas comedy album. Kimmel has yet to address the incidents, as #CancelKimmel trends on Twitter.
The re-assessing of blackface in comedy is a glimmer of progress, though long overdue. Blackface has been wrong since its inception; it was wrong when Virginia governor Ralph Northam
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