Blackface Argumentative Essay

In today's world, especially for the current generation, we are all particularly sensitive to anything that may be offensive to another culture or even an entire race; this sensitivity includes racism in one of its earliest forms, blackface. Blackface, without a doubt, is an inappropriate display of a race as it portrays blacks in a demeaning manor; however, despite its negative connotations, it was among one of the more popular forms of comedy. This culturally insensitive display has even beem applied to the world famous character, Mickey Mouse. In the 1933 short "Mickey's Mellerdrama", he and the other character put on a performance of Uncle Tom's cabin; within the first minute of the cartoon, several of the characters, including Mickey himself,