We blame Judy the individual for ‘poor choice’ without seeing the system behind her. First, she didn’t feel like she had a choice. The role and script were decided in advance. She either took the role to advance her career she was pushed into or she didn’t. It would have the next actor who took the job with the blackface on if she decided ”Oh, Toto, I don’t think I’ll look good in blackface. My Toto, it’s so cruel and prejudice, and I’ll hurt lots of negroes feelings.” That brings me to point two: everyone wore blackface by 1939. It was not controversial and the dominant white culture that created that script and put her in blackface stop caring long ago. Making of black Americans had be standard in the entertainment 80 plus years ago. Shirley Temple and Mickey Rooney wore black face. It represents the wider repression that went on and how standardized that blackface was, along with all the cartoons and negative advertising of black Americans, creating a “we” white mentality that no longer calculated the emotional integrity, humanity, and daily work and efforts of “them.” What was supposed to have gotten better, the recognization of equality and liberty of black Americans after the Civil War, actually got worse. The image of black Americans became so debasing and dehumanizing that those in charge appeared to no longer have any hesitancy about projecting such negative image onto the national stage of the movies. Hating the individual misses the system.