Jimmy Fallon Blackface Causes #JimmyFallonIsOverParty To Trend

[Hotlantan]

Jimmy Fallon gets "cancelled" at least once a year over this twenty year old skit:


FROM 2019


FROM 2018

Kelly Was Fired For Mentioning Blackface. Kimmel, Fallon Performed In It

NBC is wrong to fire Kelly over her blackface comments, but if that’s the standard, Kimmel and Fallon should be fired, too.

thefederalist.com

FROM 2017

The Trouble With Jimmy Fallon

All in all, he wasn’t a bad choice to host the Golden Globes. He had the requisite clever and colorful opening number, an affable demeanor and the ability to improvise. He even started off strong with some postelection shade—though it didn’t erase our memory of his pre-election playfulness with...

www.theroot.com

 

[younggiftedandblack]

Why wasn’t there outrage about RDJ though?!
This is literally the same thing as Tropic Thunder.​

It's not the same thing in IMO. RDJ was playing a white man who wore blackface and was called out for it in the movie. Here Jimmy is impersonating a black man. If RDJ was portraying a black character and wore blackface then the comparisons would be valid.

 

[Hey Julian!]

Now post the history of WhiteFace

Deep-rooted reverse racism against the white man. Learn ya histories, fool!

 

[TooTrilla]

Yeah this ain’t nothing.

 

[KRAYZIE]

Please tell me that you understand that your own statement about this is ridiculous.
So if it’s funny, who cares about Blackface, is what you’re saying.​

No one considered it blackface dude. Did you even see the movie

 

[God Dammit]

No one considered it blackface dude. Did you even see the movie

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Yes I saw the movie.
I didn’t consider Tropic Thunder Blackface just like I don’t consider the Fallon shit Blackface.
You must’ve lost my point in all of this.
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[Kaotic]

#canceltwitter

You beat me to it...

 

[xfactor]

only democratic whites are allowed to openly disrespect the so-called black community.

Republican whites would be vilified on BGOL.

But a large number of people will say the democratic whites are not racist.

Bgol- Because it funny.

 

[Riggz]

I hate this dumb shit... there's plenty of real problems happening today to worry about. Not this fake outrage crap that millennials just discovered.

 

[305]

why do yall care if twitter is over reacting. When was a not funny cracka in favor round here? I was expecting a bunch of zero fucks memes

 

[blackbull1970]

Tropic Thunder always comes up.

You never hear mofos go crazy and debate....

Soul Man
1986

 

[VAiz4hustlaz]

What about Dan Aykroyd?

 

[^SpiderMan^]

This "outrage" was created by white folks. Black folks in large numbers are not looking at old Jimmy Fallon skits and finding this offensive. Especially with all of the current events.

There have been a few times where I am positive CACs "created" outrage and tried to get us to carry the momentum. Another example is that Gymnast's hair. One white woman posts one tweet and it has national attention.

One CAC posts a hashtag,to a couple groups of black folks, that small group retweets, then the same CAC reports that black folks all over the country are highly outraged.

 

[Race Harley]

Some people just need to go outside and catch a case of Covid-19

 

[stizz3000]

if youre offended by this TODAY, youre a fucking idiot. shit is mad old, and the timing of this is sketchy, at best

 

[stizz3000]

Tropic Thunder always comes up.

You never hear mofos go crazy and debate....

Soul Man
1986

funny how they buried this shit. it used to come on all the time in the 80s

 

[playahaitian]

Jimmy Fallon Apologizes for Blackface SNL Sketch From 2000

“I am very sorry for making this unquestionably offensive decision and thank all of you for holding me accountable.”

www.vulture.com

 

[playahaitian]

Jimmy Fallon apologizes for appearing in blackface in 2000 'SNL' sketch

Jimmy Fallon is addressing his impersonation of Chris Rock in a "Saturday Night Live" sketch from 20 years ago in which he appeared in blackface.

www.cnn.com

Jimmy Fallon Apologizes For Resurfaced Blackface 2000 ‘SNL’ Skit

Jimmy Fallon apologized on Tuesday after a Saturday Night Live skit that aired 20 years ago resurfaced featuring him appearing in blackface to impersonate fellow former SNL cast member Chris Rock. …

deadline.com

 

[Z MONSTER]

I'm as militant and any brother, but we got to chose our battles wisely. This was nothing. As long as it was classy and no underlying racist intent, I have no problem. I also enjoyed Tropic Thunder too.

 

[TimRock]

Jimmy Fallon apologizes for appearing in blackface in 2000 'SNL' sketch

Jimmy Fallon is addressing his impersonation of Chris Rock in a "Saturday Night Live" sketch from 20 years ago in which he appeared in blackface.

www.cnn.com

Jimmy Fallon Apologizes For Resurfaced Blackface 2000 ‘SNL’ Skit

Jimmy Fallon apologized on Tuesday after a Saturday Night Live skit that aired 20 years ago resurfaced featuring him appearing in blackface to impersonate fellow former SNL cast member Chris Rock. …

deadline.com

Is he going to apologize again in 20 years?

 

[playahaitian]

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Jimmy Fallon Apologizes Again for Blackface SNL Sketch: ‘I’m Not a Racist’
By Devon Ivie@devonsaysrelax


A week after addressing and apologizing for his “terrible decision” to be involved in a blackface SNL sketch in 2000, Jimmy Fallon kicked off his new slate of Tonight Show episodes on Monday with “a different kind of show” — where he apologized, once again, for choosing to impersonate Chris Rock with a full face of black makeup and a beard. “I’m not a racist. I don’t feel this way,” Fallon explained. “I realized that I can’t not say I’m horrified and I’m sorry and I’m embarrassed. I realized that the silence is the biggest crime that white guys like me and the rest of us are doing, staying silent. We need to say something. We need to keep saying something. And we need to stop saying ‘that’s not okay’ more than just one day on Twitter.”
Speaking with NAACP president Derrick Johnson, Fallon admitted that he was advised to “just stay quiet and not say anything” when the blackface clip started to circulate and gain steam around social media. He disagreed at the time, and released a short statement of apology. However, in the aftermath of the political and cultural reckoning of George Floyd’s death, Fallon felt that his statement was inadequate and sought to open up further dialogue on The Tonight Show. “We cannot try to bury this again. It’s not going to get buried. It’s not going away,” Fallon said about Floyd’s death in Minneapolis. “You can’t just hope everyone loves each other. We can’t say ‘be the change’ and just sit around tweeting ‘be the change, be the change.’”

Later in the show, Fallon welcomed Don Lemon, who over the weekend harshly called out his celebrity friends for their inaction over Floyd’s death. Lemon admitted that while he doesn’t “always say the right things,” he doesn’t regret putting his pals on blast and appreciated Fallon educating himself about blackface. “That’s exactly what we all need to do, examine ourselves. That was very honest and brave of you,” Lemon said. “I wish more people would do that because we can’t go back to the way we were.”

 

[playahaitian]

Chris Rock weighs in on Jimmy Fallon blackface impression: 'He didn't mean anything'

By Rosy Cordero
September 16, 2020 at 03:29 PM EDT




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Chris Rock has addressed the controversy that arose this past spring when an old clip of fellow comedian Jimmy Fallon impersonating him in blackface on Saturday Night Live resurfaced.
In a new interview with the New York Times, Rock gave Fallon the benefit of the doubt, saying, "Hey, man, I'm friends with Jimmy. Jimmy's a great guy. And he didn't mean anything. A lot of people want to say intention doesn't matter, but it does. And I don't think Jimmy Fallon intended to hurt me. And he didn't."
When pressed about whether people are going too far in calling for instances of blackface to be removed from existing movies and TV shows, Rock said, "If I say they are, then I'm the worst guy in the world. There's literally one answer that ends my whole career. Blackface ain't cool, okay? That's my quote. Blackface is bad. Who needs it? It's so sad, we live in a world now where you have to say, I am so against cancer. 'I just assumed you liked cancer.' No, no, no, I am so against it. You have to state so many obvious things you're against."
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Speaking separately to the Hollywood Reporter, Rock called Fallon's impersonation of him — which originally aired in 2000, and for which Fallon apologized in May — "bad comedy." He added that Fallon "doesn’t have a racist bone in his body."
Rock will also be stopping by Fallon's Tonight Show in the coming weeks to promote the fourth season of FX's Fargo (premiering Sept. 27).
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