Cenk Uygur
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Is Snapchat’s Bob Marley Filter “Digital Blackface”?
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April 21, 2016
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7:20Now PlayingSnapchat released a new image filter on their app that morphs a user’s face to look like Bob Marley. Many are now saying it’s just a new form of blackface, which has a very racist history. Cenk Uygur, John Iadarola (ThinkTank), and Brett Erlich (Pop Trigger), hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
“’A new filter on messaging app Snapchat that allows users to look like the late reggae singer Bob Marley sparked a backlash on social media on Wednesday, with many on Twitter calling it racially insensitive.
The filter, which lets users to give themselves dread locks and digital blackface, was launched on April 20, a counterculture holiday that celebrates cannabis. Snapchat said the filter was created together with the Bob Marley estate.
Marley’s name was a top trending topic on Twitter, with nearly 90,000 mentions as of Wednesday afternoon.
Donie O’Sullivan (@donie), an editor at News Corp’sStoryful, a self-styled social media news agency, said in a post on Twitter, “Woah. Isn’t the Bob Marley Snapchat 420 filter essentially blackface?””*
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