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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJoni Mitchell not really apologizing so much as giving her reasoning for wearing blackface multiple
Joni did it more than once..
Joni Mitchell yes, Joni Mitchell not really apologizing so much as giving her reasoning for wearing blackface multiple times
"When I see black men sitting, I have a tendency to golike I nod like I'm a brother. I really feel an affinity because I have experienced being a black guy on several occasions [like the time I wore blackface on an album cover]."
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Joni Mitchell not really apologizing so much as giving her reasoning for wearing blackface multiple (Original Post)
jodymarie aimee
Feb 2019
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WhiskeyGrinder
(23,311 posts)1. So embarrassing.
irisblue
(33,698 posts)2. Aw geez 🤦🤖
True Dough
(18,772 posts)3. For those unfamiliar with the case in question
dhill926
(16,737 posts)4. looks like she's imitating...
Richard Pryor.
moondust
(20,290 posts)5. Alter ego.
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"I don't have the soul of a white woman," she once told LA Weekly. "I write like a black poet. I frequently write from a black perspective."
This may have been a response to being pigeonholed by her gender and spotless image, encapsulated by Melody Maker's 1974 description of her as "elusive, virginal White Goddess of mythology".
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http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37781800
"I don't have the soul of a white woman," she once told LA Weekly. "I write like a black poet. I frequently write from a black perspective."
This may have been a response to being pigeonholed by her gender and spotless image, encapsulated by Melody Maker's 1974 description of her as "elusive, virginal White Goddess of mythology".
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http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37781800
Croney
(4,792 posts)6. I guess it made her feel unfettered and alive, like when
she was a free man in Paris. 🙄