访谈录 2014-04-01&04-03 黑人歌手尼克·卡农“漂白”脸照遭粉丝猛批

 TV personality Nick Cannon¹ who today is under fire for posting this photo of himself. It's a photo of him in white face. Some people are calling this racist², but Cannon is defending himself, and ABC's Marro has the story.

Though it's hard to tell, this instergram picture is of Nick Cannon and yes, he is in white face. The rap run TV host posted the photo Monday with the caption³ it's official, I'm white. , followed by a string of hashtags seeming to reference stereotypes⁴ about white people, including Beerpongs, Farmersmarkets and Fist Pumping, all to promote his new album, White People Party Music.

By saying him do this, it immediately puts the album title in your head, so it's actually a very smart move, even though it may offend some people.

Some twitters found the post funny, tweeting things like welcome to be [email=white@NICKCONNON]white@NICKCONNON[/email], but others call it racially insensitive and not much different from actress Julie Halloween costume last year when she wore black face in character as crazy eyes from the TV show Orange is the New Black.

I will call Nick Cannon calculated ingorance. There is a double center there, so I can't say like, OH,Nick Cannon this is just funny. I'm offended a little bit by it.

Since his original post, Cannon has double down, posting a new video of a different Caucasian character along with the original guy. A link to this Youtube video from 2009 with the caption funny, noone got mad when we did this. Cannon's album,his first in 11 years comes out on April 1st. Some wondered if these all could be an elaborate April Fool's joke, a possible promotional prank⁵ that not everyone finds funny. For GOODMORNING AMERICA, Morra ABC NEWS, NY.

A promotional prank?

... a lively discussion out here?

It certainly did. We can continue that later in the program.

Oh, you don't want to share, because I think if you are going to be offended because of black face, you do this. Yes, people are gonna be upset, even though there is more historical, there is more history behind.

I guess that's what I was thinking, but there is a historical perspective here, and it's a question of power as well.

I give you that but at the very least foretaste.

 

1 cannon   

n.大炮，火炮；飞机上的机关炮

参考例句：

• The soldiers fired the cannon.士兵们开炮。
• The cannon thundered in the hills.大炮在山间轰鸣。

2 racist   

n.种族主义者，种族主义分子

参考例句：

• a series of racist attacks 一连串的种族袭击行为
• His speech presented racist ideas under the guise of nationalism. 他的讲话以民族主义为幌子宣扬种族主义思想。

3 caption   

n.说明，字幕，标题；v.加上标题，加上说明

参考例句：

• I didn't understand the drawing until I read the caption.直到我看到这幅画的说明才弄懂其意思。
• There is a caption under the picture.图片下边附有说明。

4 stereotypes   

n.老套，模式化的见解，有老一套固定想法的人( stereotype的名词复数 )v.把…模式化，使成陈规( stereotype的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• Such jokes tend to reinforce racial stereotypes. 这样的笑话容易渲染种族偏见。
• It makes me sick to read over such stereotypes devoid of content. 这种空洞无物的八股调，我看了就讨厌。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

5 prank   

n.开玩笑，恶作剧；v.装饰；打扮；炫耀自己

参考例句：

• It was thought that the fire alarm had been set off as a prank.人们认为火警报警器响是个恶作剧。
• The dean was ranking the boys for pulling the prank.系主任正在惩罚那些恶作剧的男学生。