“Mantan: The New Millennial Minstrel Show” is a fully realized horror spectacle, rooted in the awful Ghosts of Entertainment’s Past, right down to the blonde directors and the old fashioned methods it’s stars use to apply their blackface and bright red lips. There’s no room for nuance when crafting a variety hour that literally capitalizes on everything racist and disgusting that’s ever graced a stage.
“Europe is literally the creation of the Third World. The wealth which smothers her is that which was stolen from the underdeveloped peoples. The ports of Holland, the docks of Bordeaux and Liverpool were specialized in the Negro slave trade, and owe their renown to millions of deported slaves. So when we hear the head of a European state declare with his hand on his heart that he must come to the aid of the poor underdeveloped peoples, we do not tremble with gratitude.”
— Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (via precarious-life)