Huffpost Black Voices – Spoken Edition

“The Daily Show” is here with your annual reminder that blackface is a really stupid and racist way to mark Halloween. Correspondent Roy Wood Jr. dressed as a vampire to explain how the concept of white people applying black makeup to mark the spooky occasion (even in a non-intentionally offensive manner) was still completely wrong. “Every year, somehow, there are people who put on costumes that are about 200 years too late,” he said on Thursday’s broadcast.