I dressed up blackface once… I was eight or nine, and the whole family was dressing up as the star trek voyager crew, since that was airing at the time and we were huge trekkies. I got to be the coolest of the characters - Tuvok. I got to dress in black clothes with yellow shoulders, a spatula as a phaser and the tv-remote for a tricoder, and my dad put band-aids on my ears and darkened me with some shoe polish. I felt awesome. I was so cool. I got to do all the lines and be all vulcan and logical. Later, I understood it might’ve not been the most tasteful…