Lionsgate to address blackface episode with title card warning

[hewontgo]

A #MadMen episode featuring John Slattery’s character in blackface will now have a title card in front of it to "provide context for the scene" https://t.co/iBx79fp44B
- Variety (@Variety) July 1, 2020
The season 3 episode “My Old Kentucky Home,” in which Roger Sterling (played by John Slattery) appears in blackface will have a title card in front of

Comments

[shayme]

I judge people that say they want to go back and live in this era.

[isetlights]

I think lots of people are just bedazzled by the clothing style tbh. People who genuinely want the politics back can fuck off and die tbh.

[owl_get_you]

I’m still pretty pissed at Mad Men because it used to be pretty cheap/easy to get vintage dresses from this era and they’re still really fucking expensive now THANKS BETTY

[dreamdate]

Yup. And sometimes it's about the style of clothes women wore and I'm like, walking around for eight hours in heels? Couldn't be me.

[just444]

i think this is better than just removing episodes

[soapboxrhetoric]

same. i worry if we try to scrub away history or act like it never happened instead of providing educational material in context, it will be forgotten and lessons will stop being continually learned at some point.

[isetlights]

agreed.

[zoaster_toaster]

This

[kris_terror]

I'm white so I don't think my opinion here really matters, but I'd rather this explaining why it was included vs. just removing the episode and acting like it never happened.

[djbbgoose]

I feel like this is a better solution, in the other instances it feels like it's just to brush the creator's poor choices under the rug and avoid future criticism.
But also stop doing blackface

[devlinacardigan]

in the other instances it feels like it's just to brush the creator's poor choices under the rug and avoid future criticism.

Because that's 100% what they're doing.

[bttrsondaughter]

Yeah a comedian said Tina Fey pulling those of 30 Rock episodes wasn’t anything more than her pre-emptively maintaining her legacy. Especially considering the fact that she refused to call it blackface so that all future Wikipedia articles would refer to it as “race-changing makeup” instead

[vibeology_e]

It’s absolutely that. I listen to the Scrubs podcast that Zach Braff and Donald Faison host and they had Bill Lawrence on to talk specifically about the three episodes with blackface and he had them pulled because he felt bad they were out there. But when the podcast producer asked what he’d do going forward, it was platitudes about learning and growing. Bill Lawrence is a powerful guy; he could have committed to hiring a diverse crew or working with a certain number of Black writers or directors each year but all he actually cared about was alleviating his guilt. .

[sabrina54]

Fuck all these white assholes acting like they didn't know the history of Blackface. 30 Rock did it THREE times and Tina Fey RACIST ass can choke on a bag of dicks

[analievelyn]

I will never get over her snl weekend update after the election where she showed her ass.

[wonderplace22]

what did she do?

[maltwhitman]

She told Charlottesville protestors it was better to stay home and eat cake.