Blackface in 2007

The recent movie "A Might Heart" is about Daniel Pearl and his wife Marianne's ordeal in Afghanistan. Now, I didn't really pay attention or know this until an article pointed it out to me. Danny Pearl's wife is black... well mixed race. And Angelina Jolie, an excellent actress, plays her in the movie adaptation of Marianne's account of the tale. Now, even if there were the most benign of intentions, someone in the project had to know something about the cultural history of blackface in American cinema.

And the project's major player's ( Jolie, Pitt, Pearl ) don't see a problem with this!! I usually try to avoid overtly political or racial topics, but geeez.

Posted by Timothy Washington on 2007.06.29| Original post

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