Scenes from the French TV show ‘Dans la peau d’un Noir’ (In A Black Persons Skin) A black family’s transformation into a white family by professional make up. [YOUTUBE]IcgIOupENlQ[/YOUTUBE]
It's a good social experiment. I mean hell, I did it once to get into the Souther Republican Leadership Conference back when they held it in New Orleans. Funny how people didn't notice...
Eddie Murphy did it once on Saturday Night Live and actor Phillip Morris did it on the soap The Young And The Restless back in the 80's. A funny coincidence was that they both wore the same color wig, mustache and eyeglasses. Eddie once said during his transformation that the make up was making him look Harry Reems-ish. Harry Reems was famous for his part in the film Deep Throat and he had to go before some panel in Washington to explain what he was doing. Harry Reems is out of the business in real estate and converted to Christianity(Reems was Jewish).
Ice Cube had a similar show like that a while back, but both white and black for to see how it was to be the opposite race.
what a fuckin monkey Some hispanic black people are so disheartened to discover that they're black when they're in america, they flee back to their home countries. So you can't say that no good at all comes out of racism. :mrgreen: Before I knew better, I used to patronize this dominican restaurant that had a black cook. One day I showed up and the guy had a new hairstyle, artificially straightened hair combed straight back :mrgreen: I can only imagine him saying, "there - that fixes it. Now no one will mistake me for black again. they'll see me for the indio I am." Dominicans are an example of people raised on open, governmentally imposed anti-black racism. When Haiti was founded out of black revolution (distinguished as the only nation founded by "slave revolt", a revolt that defeated napoleon's army), the dominican slavemasters across the border were shaken, and came down hard on the blacks in their country. They didn't want the haitian revolution to spread to the other half of the island of hispaniola that DR shares with haiti, so they made it dangerous and taboo to be "black". Shit probably even explains why dominican music is so insipid and saccharine to boot (as opposed to puerto rican music for example, which at least has a little soul) -- the drum was probably banned or at least suppressed, like on early plantations in america. Later, the right wing dictator Rafael Trujillo came down hard on blackness too. From wikipedia: "He developed a uniquely Dominican policy of racial discrimination, Antihaitianismo ("anti-Haitianism"), targeting the mostly-black inhabitants of his neighboring country and those within the Platano Curtain, including many darker Dominican citizens." ... So that kinda explains these pod-people. Irony is, Trujillo himself had haitian ancestry, like a whole lot of dominicans.
You were saying? This photo, released by FX Networks, shows one of two families who switch ethnic identities with the help of theatrical makeup in the FX reality series "Black.White." to explore racial attitudes. The participants include Carmen Wurgel, right, her husband, Bruno Marcotulli, and their daughter, Rose, a white family from Santa Monica, Calif.
and? do you have anything more to the story? it happened but what was the outcome? social experiments are great but they are short term...then they switch back? so what is the real impact?
Their was no outrage or "hell to pay" as you put it and that's all you need to know. You can google it.
