{"id":56925,"date":"2018-12-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/56925\/myriam-fares-in-blackface-the-shocking-new-music-video"},"modified":"2023-05-08T11:40:59","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T11:40:59","slug":"myriam-fares-in-blackface-the-shocking-new-music-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/56925\/myriam-fares-in-blackface-the-shocking-new-music-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Myriam Fares In Blackface: The Shocking New Music Video"},"content":{"rendered":"Lebanese music artist (is she? debatable) Myriam Fares has stirred controversy with her latest music video for the song Goumi<\/i> in which she dances and prances in a jungle (because Africa, duh) while she progressively gets into blackface.



Blackface, for those who don\u2019t know, is about making blackness a costume. More specifically, it\u2019s about blackness as white people understand it. I won\u2019t get into the history of blackface or how it is extremely derogatory and a disdainful representation of black people as cartoonish, outlandish, and garish – you\u2019ll have to educate yourselves on your own time, but suffice to say that it is a generally agreed upon form of blatant racism.

Myriam has proven that she (along with an entire production team) still lack the basic sensibilities that contribute to Arab racism and ignorance. It is the total lack of awareness about how a disenfranchised people and an entire continent are still struggling to write their own history and still fighting for the right to represent themselves.


Tribal? Asian? African?! Who knows.<\/small>

The entire production of the video, the \u201csavage\u201d feel, the jungle theme, the wild hair and make-up, as well as the presence of what looks like Amazonian people or indigenous folk, are all representations of the people she is emulating as \u201cothers\u201d.

With African traditional jewelry, Southeast Asian neck-rings, Indian and African dances and music, it is clear that to Myriam, culture is split into whites and others.



The truth of the matter is, white people will continuously do blackface and say, \u201cyou know how I am, I\u2019m the least racist person!\u201d Okay, little Trumpsters, calm down.

People in blackface tend to be less concerned with how their actions were actively harmful to black people and more preoccupied with the fact that their reputation was now sullied.


Here is how some people reacted on Twitter:


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