How I wish I were kidding, oh, the horror, the horror…
Asked to appear on the Australian variety hour Hey Hey It’s Saturday as a guest judge, Harry Connick Jr. sputters in disbelief when a Jackson 5 impersonation group entirely in blackface appears onstage. He first gives the group a 0 scorecard for the performance while the audience boos; later, at about 4:40 into the clip, Connick launches into an impassioned race-relations lecture explaining why blackface is a bad thing. “If I knew that was going to be a part of the show, I definitely wouldn’t have done it,” Connick declares on live TV. The host appears genuinely surprised. Newsweek
Silly blog Hello Negro upset that these Aussies took Blackface at, well, face value as it were!
I’m so glad that every serious subject on the planet has been exhausted so that morally preening blowhard Harry Connick Jr. was freed up enough to lecture us all on the manifest and manifold evils of Blackface?
