Twitter is Outraged at Blackface Chinese New Year Sketch

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Eric Lund
Feb 16, 2018 8:00 PM EST

The sketch about African-Chinese relations, featuring a Chinese actress in blackface and wearing prosthetics, was watched by up to 800 million people in China. It's quickly become the center of a controversy about racial ignorance in the country.

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