apparently a canadian journalist wrote a book called Seven Shoulders where he hitchhiked across america wearing blackface and an afro wig to learn about race relations in the US, mostly by white people not wanting to give him a ride. to critique just one part of this terrible idea, if i saw a canadian in blackface trying to hitchhike, i wouldn’t ignore him because i thought he was black, i’d be assuming justin trudeau had fallen on hard times and he seems like he’d be a very annoying person to be in a car with
