SNL guides Virginia state officials through all the ways blackface was 'never funny or cool'
Saturday Night Live took on Virginia's mushrooming blackface scandal — now involving Gov. Ralph Northam (D), Attorney General Mark Herring (D), and state Sen. Thomas K. Norment Jr. (R) — with an exasperated Keenan Thompson as the state legislature's ethics committee chair making very, very clear wearing blackface "was never funny or cool."
Yes, even if it was part of a costume as a black person. Yes, even if the costume were of a woman. Yes, even if your costume won a contest. Yes, even if you were just goofing around with friends. Yes, even if it was the 1980s. Yes, also the 1990s.
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