‘Conceal Your Children’ Star Antoine Dodson Speaks on ‘Digital Blackface’

Antoine Dodson — the man who turned Web well-known for a really memorable interview says he is high-quality with white individuals utilizing Black memes … as a result of they pay for it, actually.

We spoke to the viral star — whose iconic quotes from the 2010 WAFF information piece, together with “disguise your children, disguise your spouse,” have been changed into a catchy tune — and he weighed in on the CNN digital Blackface controversy. Because it turns, out, he has fairly a bit to say about it.

Antoine tells us the argument that whites are maliciously mocking African People — deliberately or in any other case — by using GIFs/memes simply is not his expertise. If something, he says he is solely encountered reverence from Caucasians for his personal meme fame … which has translated to chilly onerous money once they rent him as expertise. Prime greenback, at that.

Take a look at AD’s perspective for your self, as a result of the best way he breaks this down is exclusive … and sorta scathing. He says if anybody has made him right into a joke, it is different Black individuals.

Antoine says he does not actually do Black-sponsored engagements ‘trigger it does not examine to the therapy he would possibly get from whites. As he places it … if white persons are solely out to make him a punchline for his or her amusement, they’ll costly lengths to take action.

Backside line … Antoine feels just like the notion we gotta limit white individuals’s meme utilization is ridiculous — which is how lots of Twitter customers felt about it this weekend, frankly.

Whereas some would possibly agree with the author, John Blake, the consensus appears to go in the other way — and Antoine’s in that camp. BTW, he additionally touches on his sister’s real-life scary incident being changed into humor … and he explains why he is good with that too.

Final 12 months Antoine acquired into the grownup beverage enterprise partnering with an Alabama brewery to craft “Run N Inform That” lager and only recently launched his personal sizzling sauce.