Blackface Jesus controversy

So there's this guy, Blackface Jesus, who shows up to "hipster" parties dressed up as... well, Jesus in blackface. He's also managed to pop up in NY media blog Gawker like four times now, which has gotten some of the Axis of PC types upset.

Hashim, who kinda looks like Biggie, sayeth:

The problem I have is not with his existence, but the passive acceptance by the other party goers who are with him, and the recurring big-ups he's been getting from Gawker, a blog about NY media...

...For me, this is an example of White male privilege being flaunted at it's worst. He rocks blackface because well, he can. And Gawker can highlight him as a funny ironic joke over and over because they can. Even in New York where Whites are the minority.

Yeah, you tell 'em, Hashim!

Clyde Smith, who is a woman, pops up in the comments and of course tries to turn this into an attack on me:

I don't know what's up with this Blackface Jesus guy or NY hipsters but I do know that if he was a hip hop blogger, a lot of folks would be saying that you should be worried about the "real enemies".

Not me, of course.

PS-If you don't catch my historical reference, just ignore me. Everyone else does.

Yeah, shut the fuck up, Clyde.

A site called Mixed Media Watch (seriously), meanwhile, is pissed:

White people like "Blackface Jesus" think that they have somehow "transcended" racism. Maybe because they hang out with black people, have black friends, or even fuck [excuse my French] black men or women, that means that they couldn’t possibly subscribe to the same racist notions as did the less open-minded previous generations. Sorry to disappoint, fellas, but you guys grew up to be EXACTLY like them.

Whoa!

Anyhoo, I'm failing to see what the big deal is here, but I suppose that's to be expected. It'll be interesting to see if Blackface Jesus himself responds to any of this. Maybe I'll try to email him.

Checkit:

• Blackface Jesus @ MySpace
• Blackface Jesus Gets Blogger Love
• Dude, where’s my white privilege? Take 2: "Blackface Jesus"

Comments

[Lucifer]

1st

[BlackimusPrime]

2nd. And seriously, WTF?

[miketirico]

See what happens when you get the gays involved in hiphop.

[i'm the skwidawd]

Blackface Jesus = Bol listening to rock music

scandalous!

[BlackimusPrime]

I mean, is he trying to say Jesus was black? I'm honestly for the first time in years at a loss for words... "Hipsters" are corny people. They've fucked up American advertising and now this.

[Edwin]

>>See what happens when you get the gays involved in hiphop.

For real. Clyde Smith needs to get some business (no homo).

[i'm the skwidawd]

^^ I think you mean he needs to get busy (homo).

[Bol]

Be sure to check out his MySpace page.

http://www.myspace.com/blackfacejesus

[danthrax]

>He rocks blackface because well, he can. And Gawker can highlight him as a funny ironic joke over and over because they can

what the fuck is that pseudo intellectual negroid trying to say? that shit was more vague and pointless than the blackface jesus.

[Monty]

I took as him making light of the popularized version of Jesus that is so obviously incorrect. The flag indicates that it's supposed to be a message of some sort.

It could also be that other stuff.

[Neva]

Danthrax,

I think what my brother is saying is because Blackface Jesus is a white guy.
Y'all can get with murder

[the izza]

Well, Blackface Jesus is such a wired commentary on so many levels, and it succeeds as its own kind of performance art. The problem is, white folks think everything they don't understand is some kind of performance art, especially drug-addicted, hipster-doofus NYC ofays. The recent arrest of a drug cartel calling itself "The Cartoon Network" (go to Gawker) nods to the idea that all is absurd, and everything is fair game for parody or profit. Blackface ain't funny. Jesus ain't funny.

That said, look for three things to happen to BFJ:

---Blackface Jesus gets corporate sponsorship, and becomes the New Millenial "Soy Bomb," (look it up kids) and ends up crashing the Grammy's TRL and the fucking Soul Train awards wearing logos and advertising swag, further exentuating the goof and irritating the masses. Abercrombie and Finch lock him into a modeling contract. Alf's talk show makes a comeback, with BFJ as the co-host. It's a runaway hit.

---On the 4 Train, homeward-bound after an appearance at a late bar mitzvah, Blackface Jesus gets gang-raped by some fresh-out bros too institutionalized to grasp the idea of post-modern absurdism as performance art but snart enough to appreciate the irony of 9 ex-cons taking turns fucking Jesus Christ in the ass. Somehow, cellphone picture of the incident hit the internet. Katie Couric host a BFJ telethon. Millions donate to get BFJ back on his feet. The rapist are caught and, after accepting an NAACP Image award and a citation from Congressional Black Caucus, are summarily beheaded on network television. Paris Hilton hosts the must-see event, inserting a giggly "That's hot" after every execution.

---BFJ goes on to star as Jerry in "Seinfeld: The Musical" with Rosie O'Donnell as George and--in a bold casting masterstroke---Gary Coleman as "Kramer". It sweeps the Tonys. He gets a star on the Walk of Fame, and while taking a leak between appetizers at Applebee's dissapears and is never heard from again.

you read it here first . . . .

[Neva]

Hey Izza,

Dude Monty states:

> took as him making light of the popularized version of Jesus that is so obviously incorrect.

Monty,

What color do you think Jesus was? Don't give no bullshit answer because I'll rip you to shreds w/proof!

[hipster]

BFJ is just the white male version of Tyra Banks.

[Neva]

What is up with that New Mexico t-shirt ad? I'm finding it hard to believe that this is a site dedicated to hip hop

What a scam!

[BK]

If any of you have seen the 1927 film "The Jazz Singer", the actor in blackface is the long dead jewish actor Al Jolson. Saw it on TCM about six months back.

If you decide to watch it, here's some advice: don't bother, as it's so damn boring. The only reason it's considered a classic is because it was supposedly the first "talkie".

[The Infamous]

Anyone see Hashim's Top 5 Dead Or Alive?

1 - Jay-Z
2 - Tupac
3 - Nas
4 - Eminem
5 - Ghostface

LOL at a black guy including Eminem in that list and not Biggie(!)

[someone]

http://www.suntimes.com/output/steinberg/cst-nws-stein23.html
interesting

[Supreme Dunk]

Alright, I knew I had to get up on this shit.

Hipsters are amongst the lowest form of life on this planet. They think they can do anything they want when hidden under the guise of irony, which is a staple to hipster life (i.e. the New Mexico T-shirt at the bottom of the page, and any bullshit put out on Urban Outfitters t-shirt). This Blackface Jesus probably thinks he's doing something revolutionary, but this, along with college "Thug Parties" is the same shit that allows racism to continue in this country, it's now disguised as irony.

[king_ralph]

he's a fudge

http://myspace-542.vo.llnwd.net/00340/24/54/340114542_l.jpg

[The Internets' Most Hated Man, Speed da Young'un]

Hmmm...this far into the comments and no "Nigger Jew skull-bashing Bertha Sanford anal massaging mulatto faggots" bullshit? I'm impressed they've been able to resist this long.

Nullus Maximus to this post.

[BlackimusPrime]

..And nullus maximus to that picture as well.

[The Internets' Most Hated Man, Speed da Young'un]

^True that.
I don't want to gouge my eyes out before Christmas.

[Nappyhead Jesus]

Ray Earl had to get a colonoscopy and a mammogram today and is a little drowsy right now, but I'm certain she will disgrace us with her convoluted logic any time now.

[Nappyhead Jesus]

WOW!!

What if that was REALLY Jesus just effing with you infidels?

[Monty]

>Monty,

>What color do you think Jesus was? Don't give no bullshit answer because I'll rip you to shreds w/proof!

He wasn't white or black, he was middle-eastern. Ever see this?

http://blog.chosun.com/web_file/blog/287/16787/Real_Jesus.jpg

[From where I'm sittin']

"i wanna dress you up as a devil and fuck you!"

- Blackface Jesus

that's a direct quote from BFJ on some chick's myspace page...kinda childish if u ask me

[Hashim]

BFJ should be your weekend blogger, Bol.

No, seriously.

[Cracka Smacka]

Nigga if I served yo ass up an eightball you better be happy with that 8ball!

[Cracka Smacka]

I wish that nigga would show up to some real HOOD type clubs. LIGHT HIS ASS UP REAL QUICK

[Patrick Kigongo]

Ahem...I don't understand this nonsense. Everyobody's freaking about blackface jesus and don't even bother to pay mind to me...the REAL BLACK GUY right behind him who's cold chillin and not even paying the situation any mind...shit, dude. Lighten up...zoo york.

[When Keepin It Real Goes Wrong]

What a loser! Posing as "Black Jesus" to get publicity for himself. People like him make this world screwed up.

God Bless!

[ORA MAE COVINGTON]

"Hmmm...this far into the comments and no "Nigger Jew skull-bashing Bertha Sanford anal massaging mulatto faggots" bullshit? I'm impressed they've been able to resist this long."

oh that comment is funny.

[rayco earl]

my previuos comments on this topic were deleted. that's a perfect way to get someone to abandon this site!

[mod]

supreme dunk is on point. fuck white racism disguised as fashion. it's saying nigger even louder than in speech.

[Bedford Bugle]

Absolutely no coverage of this here:

http://bedfordbugle.blogspot.com/

[it dont matter]

i saw that man and a pope when i was in a gas station triping balls

[Black Jesus]

This mofo ain't got nothin' on me, bitch!

http://www.myspace.com/sailingonward

[CyberRev.com]

Only an unwise or uneducated fool would call him or herself "black" or "white". I am yet to see ANYONE match a sheet of white paper. As for 'white jesus' who is that? How can the Hebrew (not Roman) Christ ever be white or black? It is time to lay aside the Greco-Roman, Celtic, Confederate, Neo lies of the bandits and founders of slavery, rape, religions and denominations of Romanism and Baal.

[michael]

in king james 1611 christ had feet like unto fine brass, there is no way a white person have brown feet & all that nonsense about jesus was white then after being in the sun for long became brown is nonsense ! a tan does not last for long anyway.

[Old Noah]

This is funny because I'm Jewish and Jesus means about as much to me as Rumpelstiltskin. But I agree for the most part about hipsters taking racism way too casually/ironically. They ain't never gonna know what it feels like to be black and experience this kind of bullshit, and if they did they'd quit it (and whether there are such things as black hipsters is a whole 'nother convo).