The New Black Face? Celebrities In Trouble Over Skin Color

Nick Cannon

Nick Cannon says he’s 100 percent not sorry for creating this white character for his album White People Party Music.

Nick says he knew it would cause controversy and start an important conversation:

“It was one of those things. Naming my album title and doing the character, I knew it would spark controversy. But I felt like it was a conversation that is needed.

Without getting too serious, everybody’s really sensitive when it comes to race. That’s even one of the reasons why I did it. If you want to have that real conversation, it’s even funny they’re using this term white face, like I don’t know what that is.?

I know black face was a term created in 1869 to describe offensive minstrel shows. White face, if you look it up and google it, it’s a ski slope in upstate new York. This term that we have created, I was doing a character impression. Black face is about oppression. If you want to have that conversation, we can have that conversation.”