“Black Like Me” Is Blackface Too
Should good intentions ever matter with blackface?
4 min readFeb 9, 2019
On October 28, 1959, a few days before Halloween, John Howard Griffin, a writer from Texas, decided to “stain” his white skin to experience life as a black man in the South.
Griffin’s purpose for black-stained skin was to research white racism because according to him there was no other way to know…
