Reagan had a blackface performance at his inaugural celebration

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When Ben Vereen Wore Blackface to Reagan’s Inaugural Gala

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The tribute begins buoyantly. After the first song, looking delighted by the rapturous applause of his audience, Vereen, still performing as Williams, mimics an interaction with an imaginary bartender and offers to buy the largely Republican crowd a celebratory drink. Then he gently makes it clear that this gesture has been denied owing to the color of his skin. Appearing deflated, Vereen then sings Williams’s signature song, the mordant and dirgelike “Nobody” (“I ain’t never got nothin’ from nobody, no time”), while staring into a makeup mirror and wiping the black paint from his face.

This final five minutes of Vereen’s performance is anguished yet defiant, evoking the pain and exploitative power of blackface minstrelsy and the distortions of stereotype. It was intended to implicate the predominantly white audience. And almost nobody saw it. The gala was televised on ABC, on tape delay, but the broadcast omitted this latter half of Vereen’s act. Vereen had been promised that the whole performance would be shown, and he felt betrayed by the network’s decision to edit out the latter part. And so for weeks—for years—Vereen had to answer to African-Americans who were both angry and mystified as to why the most prominent black actor on Broadway would agree to shuffle his feet and sing, even in tribute to a renowned black performer, for a party and a President-elect that outwardly seemed to care so little for them.
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