TikTok’s Digital Blackface Problem

Under the hashtags #Ghetto and #CripWalkChallenge, white teens appropriate Black culture

Tatiana Walk-Morris
OneZero
Published in
5 min readFeb 12, 2020

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It started with a voicemail.

In August 2018, a video clip featuring a recording of an angry employee berating her boss began to spread across Twitter. In the audio, the employee accuses her boss of being racist amidst a stream of…

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