David Byrne is acknowledging it was a mistake doing a Blackface bit in a performance in 1984. Byrne, 68, took to Twitter and addressed the skit in question.
The singer had forgotten about the promo video until it was recently brought to his attention by a journalist. RELATED: New York Mets, Miami Marlins Walk Off Over Jacob Blake Shooting “Recently a journalist pointed out something I did in a promo video skit in 1984 for the Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense.
In the piece I appear as a number of different characters interviewing myself, and some of the characters portrayed are people of colour,” Byrne wrote. “I’d just about forgotten about this skit and I’m grateful that it has been brought to my attention.” “To watch myself in
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