Joni Mitchell Blackface Scandal

It’s been out there for years and years and years. Now she gets cancelled?

When asked Mitchell stated "I don’t have the soul of a white woman. I write like a black poet."

Well R1, she did recently come out in favor of cancelling people with the wrong opinions. What's sauce for the goose ...

She didn’t cancel anyone, she cancelled herself on Spotify.

I am sure OP truly cares about "black folk" and is not trolling at all.

Joni Mitchell was a fabulous music star AND she looks fabulous in her blackface. Nobody cares now, and back then people probably cared = i.e. they wanted to fuck that pretty black man.

If she actually said that R2, that's arguably more offensive than blackface IMO

That Twitter feed is retweeting Robert Kennedy and Matt Taibbi.

She’s a liberal, she won’t get canceled, she’ll be fine and other hypocritical libbers will rush to defend her like Neil Young’s “I don’t want no faggot touching my carrots “ remark

But TRUMP!!!!!

Oh for crissakes its 2022. She's practically dead. if its so important to you to cancel someone about social faux pas 50 years ago when it wasn't such a faux pas, go ahead. Have at it. Its not like there are pressing issues of 2022 to deal with.

Wow. No. This is a huge deal. What’s left of her reputation is fucked.

Yeah she was a little kooky back then.

These guys are really going to freak when they find out about the film Soul Man.

Yeah, no. Wearing blackface in public isn’t “a little kooky.”

R14 "Yeah, no."

Let's speak English, dear.

Was there a little lace along the seams?

[quote] Wow. No. This is a huge deal. What’s left of her reputation is fucked.

No one who is not a conspiracy nut would take that Twitter account seriously.

And Neil hates faggots.

Joni will be fine. It’s the queens who like Joe Rogan that I’m worried about.

She made a whole bunch of racist comments too.

Again, the left has shot itself in the foot over the Rogan thing.

He he, a homophobe and a racist, such a lovely pair of censors.

She hasn't "made a whole bunch of racist comments."

She was hanging out with black jazz artists (eventually Charles Mingus) and it was meant to be more of an homage, that she was one of them.

Blackface is wrong, and she was wrong. Even as an homage or a Halloween costume, it was wrong. But Mitchell is not, nor has she ever been, a racist.

Joni can do no wrong

R22 is an idiot.

Well I think it was a little kooky. She didn't mean harm by it. IE, she did it because she was crazy. She claims she has Morgellons disease as well. Kooky.

Could you really tell it’s Joni if you didn’t know beforehand?

LMAO, this is hysterical.

I used to be a huge Joni Mitchell fan when I was younger until I followed her on Facebook. She turned out to be one of the most unabashed narcissists I’ve seen on social media and that’s saying a lot. This woman really thinks she’s Jesus Christ.

I wasn’t surprised when she thought pulling her catalog from Spotify would be some earth shattering move.

Hopefully this scandal will bring her back to earth a bit. I mean, you want to play the woke scold when you have this shit in your closet? Fuck off.

[quote]When asked Mitchell stated "I don’t have the soul of a white woman. I write like a black poet."

This was the rest of the quote, “I don’t have the soul of a white woman. I write like a black poet. I often write from a black perspective.”

Talk about benevolent racism. The fact that so many white liberals don’t see what an inappropriate statement this is tells me that the Republicunts aren’t the only idiots.

[quote] until I followed her on Facebook

You are absolutely a liar and full of complete shit, because Joni has never, ever, ever, ever, EVER been on Facebook with her own personal account.

SHE personally has never been involved with social media. Her website and social media pages were initially started by a fan, and then after he died, her managers have people running them.

So you never saw anything. Nice try though. -500 for lame mention of "woke" - now run along and try to do your far right smear campaign somewhere where they're dumb enough to believe you.

Joni's comments are weirdly worded, but she and black artists have long had a connection and inspired each other's music - Prince and Charles Mingus were but two.

And vice versa for black artists into certain artsy white female artists. Prince, D'Angelo and several other R&B male singers were inspired by, and collaborated with, Kate Bush.

Yes, her comments sound like appropriation. You can criticize her for that. But while you're doing that, I'll also be looking for you to do the same for Paul Simon, Sting, and David Byrne......go ahead, I'll wait here, cradling my mug.

Here’s some other black artists who revere Joni

There is no "Joni Mitchell Blackface Scandal."

Joni scored a lot of primo black cock in her day, too.

Joni scored a lot of primo cock, period.

As our thread "Joni Mitchell's vagina here!" covered in great detail.