In an article written by the Washington Post on June 22nd, 2018 this touches upon the topic of black face and it being around for nearly 200 years. African Americans were not able to play their colored roles instead a non-African American person would play it with black paint on their face to resemble an African American. Many people throughout the 200 year span noticed this. Frederick Douglas, noticed this in his time: “the filthy scum of white society, who have stolen from us a complexion denied to them by nature, in which to make money, and pander to the corrupt taste of their white fellow citizens.” The white people would eventually understand the struggle of what a black man had to go through, via this black face trend during the times. Bert Williams was an African American man part of the black face revolution. He himself started in many plays, eventually becoming a very successful singer and actor. Yet the cost of him being a successful actor was his dignity. Basketball players are merely demeaned and subject to higher crime rates, and police assault than their white counterparts off of the court. They do not get treated as they should be, for example Sterling Brown got assaulted by the police being mistaken for someone he is not. Even within the justice system black people do not get treated equally no matter what their crime is. Even in the 1920s blacks could make contact with the white people, but they were at a very far distance which wasn’t true contact. Racism still runs rampant in modern media it is just not as noticeable as it once was.