My tweets and Facebook posts had caught fire, and the story had gone global on the strength of them and the provocative nature of the visuals, apparently. There are several! But please #StopBlackfaceJapan”Ī couple of more tweets and retweets and I thought I was done with this. Need a black character, get a black actor that speaks Japanese. “Note to japanese performing in #BlackFace: #Blackness is not a punchline nor a prop. Think my exact words were: “This makes 3 times this week and 2 nights in a row! This time on the number 1 viewed program of the year, the super bowl of comedy! Japan … you’re making it really hard to love you these days … you gotta do better than this! #BlackfaceisBad #StopBlackFaceJapan.” It was already a hot topic, so I added some kerosene. I took a few screenshots and hopped on Twitter. All I saw was, for the third time in a week, a Japanese man using blackface to get laughs, and once again I didn’t see the humor. People say he was supposed to be Eddie Murphy. Here’s a brief overview of how it went down from my perspective: I was watching the New Year’s Eve edition of variety show “Downtown no Gaki no Tsukai ya Arahende!!” like most of the country when Masatoshi Hamada emerged from a cabinet in blackface.
How was my gift received? Well, depends on who you ask. It was the least I could do for all the wonderful things this country has given me over the past 13 years. What did I do with mine? Well, I gave it to Japan - by imploring them to stop blackface before the country attains a stigma it may not be able to recover from. What would you do with your 15 minutes, should the occasion ever present itself? Best ask yourself now, and I pray you’re prepared for it should such an opportunity come along.
Well, I’ve had mine just as the calendar was flipping.
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