Blackface Obama dance captured at the Reopen Michigan protest in Lansing.

[RandySF]

Link to tweet

?s=21

[Buckeye_Democrat]

1. If Karma was real, something like this...

... would’ve happened after the girl’s shoe flew off.

[ProfessorGAC]

2. While It's Stupid...

...and tasteless and ill-timed, I don't think blackface is a good descriptor.
Both girls are wearing masks. One is PINO, the other BHO.
It was a stupid point using children in silly costumes.
But I don't connect it to black face. If the only mask was Obama, I'd have a very different opinion.

[stillcool]

3. did you see a different video?

and what is a PINO..and why the need for a black Obama mask at all? You see this kind of thing often?

[jimfields33]

4. Reagan masks were a thing

Even had them in movies. The young lady was African American so maybe she chose the mask as a tribute. A lot of people look up to him. I do.

[stillcool]

5. where is the video you saw?

and the explanation for the skit?

[jimfields33]

6. The one everyone is watching. It's less then a minute.

You should be able to watch unless the internet where you are is not good.

[stillcool]

15. my internet is just fine..

but why do you think the young lady was African American?

[jimfields33]

16. Good grief. Though she was. Is it on the national news?

[nsd]

7. PINO President in Name Only

[ProfessorGAC]

8. Chippy Today?

Somebody kick your cat?
PINO: President In Name Only
The other girl was wearing a mask of the usurper.
Did you actually watch the video?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. No. You are simply too cool to realize other people are not as cool as you.

And we shouldn't have to watch some over-long video just to find out what YOU mean.

I don't know how long the video is.
I didn't even know there was/is a video.
Videos have so many trackers and fingerprinters on them that I only see blank space.

On edit: Oh, yeah, that video.

A video in the Tweet. Not in the OP or your post.

I could tell what it was about from the description. Then on edit I went to the tweet and saw it was indeed the one that I had seen before. I had watched it with the sound off.

Do we have to endure stupid RW "entertainment" just so we can be as cool as you and know what YOU mean? Do we have to turn the SOUND on to understand what you have WRITTEN? Just in case the sound might have a clue?

[ProfessorGAC]

12. Have You Lost It?

Both girls are wearing president masks.
How is that unclear?
You had to watch no video this time to know both girls had masks on, unless you inexplicably missed it the first time. Don't know how you could miss it.
And your whole "cool" thing is a non sequitur. An unnecessarily nasty non sequitur.
Do I have to clear my comments through you now?
Ibid on the sound on or off!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. It was a tiny video on lousy camera in bad lighting, backlit, in a little tweet window

I could see one mask. I don't feel the need to inspect RW videos closely full screen just because you used an acronym and got {something} about explaining.

[stillcool]

14. yes I did..but did not see both masks..

and have no idea what the skit was supposed to be about. I'm not chippy today...more pissy.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. PINO: An open humanoid robot platform?

Pino may refer to:

People

As an Italian name, Pino is a nickname for Giuseppe, itself the Italian form of the given name Joseph.

Danny Pino (born 1974), American actor
Domenico Pino (1760–1826), Italian general of the Napoleonic Wars
Fernando Solanas (born 1936), aka "Pino" Solanas, Argentine filmmaker
Frank J. Pino (1909–2007), New York politician and judge
Juan Pablo Pino (born 1987), Colombian football player
Nicolas Pino (1819–1896), American Civil War officer
Nissan Pino, a kei car produced by Nissan from 2007-2010
Pino Daeni (1939–2010), Italian artist
Pino Daniele (1955–2015), Italian musician
Pino Palladino (born 1957), Welsh-Italian musician
Pino Presti (born 1943), Italian musician

Places

Pino, California, former name of Loomis
Pino, Haute-Corse, a town in France
Pino d'Asti, a municipality in the Province of Asti, Italy
Pino sulla Sponda del Lago Maggiore, a village and municipality in the Province of Varese, Italy

Chemistry

N-Hydroxyphthalimide#Phthalimido-N-oxyl (PINO), an organic radical

Other

Pino (doll), a character in Namco's 1986 arcade game, Toy Pop
PINO, an open humanoid robot platform
Pino, a tall blue bird Muppet on the Dutch children's television series Sesamstraat, based upon Big Bird

See also

Pinos (disambiguation)
El Pino (disambiguation)
El Pinar (disambiguation)
Pinho

[Hekate]

11. I think "blackface" only applies to specific makeup applied directly to the face. Was common ...

...in minstrel shows by whites and in early movies (like The Jazz Singer) that had minstrel-referenced scenes. I think early stage shows used burnt cork, but in the movies it was greasepaint.

A Halloween mask does not really qualify as blackface, although there might indeed be a racist context.