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White Like Me
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Similar to Black Like Me except usually played strictly for laughs as a black character pretends to be white. Generally, a very hip black male pretends to be a very straight, lame white male. Not related to the book, which is a personal story about white privilege. Contrast Black Like Me. Compare and contrast Blackface. |
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Chamillionaire played a dual role as a white newsreader in his follow-up songs "Hip Hop Police" and "The Evening News". | |
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Lovecraft Country: Ruby takes on a white appearance and name thanks to Williams' magic, enjoying how much easier life is for her in that guise. | |
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The lead character in The Hebrew Hammer, at one point in the film, impersonates a Gentile. Although as an American Jew he should be in no way racially different, the whole scene is Played for Laughs very much in this way, as if being a Jew made one completely clueless of anything Gentile, and with the disguise being that of an outrageously stereotypical fundie redneck. | |
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Scrubs: An episode had an Imagine Spot where Turk (Donald Faison) portrayed a white insurance salesman "Cal Turk". Another episode had a flashback to Turk and J.D.'s student days in which they were going to an African-American fraternity with Turk in whiteface and a visibly uncomfortable J.D. in blackface. Turk assured J.D. that as long as they were both there, the fraternity would get the gag, but then spotted a hot girl and ditched J.D. at the last second to go talk to her, meaning the black fraternity members answered the door to just J.D. in blackface and were not pleased. |
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Incognegro is a graphic novel series following Zane Pinchback, a reporter for a black newspaper in the early 1930s New York City and a black man born with very light skin. He infiltrates the Deep South to investigate and report on the KKK's criminal activities. | |
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In The Nostalgia Critic, Malcolm once has to disguise as a white man in order to escape from a Genre Savvy Nostalgia Critic turned insane because of the miniseries based on Stephen King's The Shining. Thankfully, Malcolm manages to avoid being another victim of the Black Dude Dies First trope, by putting on a rather impressive disguise with blonde wig, white shirt... he even reads a purely white book and listens to Wrecking Ball! Now that's dedication. In the behind-the-scenes, he was the only one not laughing at it and said he didn't know how to make it not offensive. | |
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In The Newest Plutarch, Esteban Ligeiro's "Ligeiro Albino", a chemical for turning black people white. First, there was a lot of controversy, then it turned out there are side effects... then it turned out to be temporary. | |
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The lead character in Sorry to Bother You is a down on his luck black telemarketer (played by Lakeith Stanfield) who finds success by calling clients using his "white voice" (dubbed by David Cross). | |
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In The Story of Doctor Dolittle, African prince Bumpo agrees to help the Doctor in exchange for making him white (he had earlier tried to kiss a sleeping princess, but she was racist and rejected him for being black). The doctor does the best he can, but it doesn't last long, and Bumpo is back to normal by the next book. | |
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One episode of 30 Rock sees Tracy and Jenna betting to see if living as a black man in America is harder than living as a white woman in America, with Tracy donning white makeup and a dress to try and live a white woman's life (Jenna, meanwhile, puts on blackface and engages in Modern Minstrelsy, which Toofer quickly calls her out on). Eventually, both Tracy and Jenna each declare the other the winner of the bet. | |
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O.J.: Made in America: The documentary shows O. J. Simpson getting made up in "whiteface", as an elderly Jewish man Eddie Murphy-style, for his surreal 2006 "comedy" special Juiced. | |
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During the Armor Wars storyline, Jim Rhodes, a black man, impersonated Electro in order to infiltrate The Vault in order to help Iron Man neutralize the Guardsman armors that used his technology. Max Dillon is white, so Rhodey had to wear makeup over the exposed part of his face, and then quietly pray to himself that a brother didn't catch him removing the costume and makeup. | |
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Key & Peele has a skit called "Das Negros" in which two black men in Useful Notes/whNaziGermany wear whiteface and try and act white to fool an SS officer hunting for "Das Negros". There are also several skits in which they play characters who are white, including rednecks and Eastern European spy villains, though without any makeup. | |
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