Mr. Staples is a member of the editorial board. Nineteenth-century minstrel entertainers spawned a racist caricature that endures to this day when they darkened their faces to portray black people as grinning, dancing simpletons.
from Pocket https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/31/opinion/blackface-white-supremacy.html
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