arbys
@mapoli112.bsky.social
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Choir-obsessed, lover of people and good hangs, hater of onions (Also director of Lux Choir in DC, grad student at UNT, and failer at decentering my former baseball-player life) he/they
![Text from a Wikipedia article:
"Mitchell has consistently defended her use of blackface. For many years, she insisted that the opening line of her autobiography would one day be "I was the only black man at the party."[21]
In 1988, she referred to "(her) blackness" in an interview with Mojo.[22]
In 1994, she told the LA Weekly "I write like a black poet. I frequently write from a black perspective."[11]
In 2015, she told The Cut that she tended to "nod like a brother" when she saw black men in the street, adding "I really feel an affinity because I have experienced being a black guy on several occasions."[3]
In 2017, when interviewed by biographer David Yaffe, Mitchell again defended her use of blackface and also that of Al Jolson, calling him "a Jew in blackface (who's) always getting the better end of the deal... I got away with it … I got the greatest reviews for that record in black magazines. They saw the brother, they reviewed it, and they got it." Yaffe added that it was unclear which "black magazines" Mitchell was referring to.[16]"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eqlb6cxg5ayegrtgrjcq75bl/bafkreicb5ni5osvyhidwm26xebikichjldneab6ivsmqvk3q4apj5uhyjq)
