Joni Mitchell not really apologizing so much as giving her reasoning for wearing blackface multiple

[jodymarie aimee]

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 go—like 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]."

[WhiskeyGrinder]

1. So embarrassing.

[irisblue]

2. Aw geez 🤦🤖

[True Dough]

3. For those unfamiliar with the case in question

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37781800

[dhill926]

4. looks like she's imitating...

Richard Pryor.

[moondust]

5. Alter ego.

~
"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".
~
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37781800

[Croney]

6. I guess it made her feel unfettered and alive, like when

she was a free man in Paris. 🙄