it also included older elements of vaudeville, and black actors in blackface.our two characters performed in blackface, as did many performers back then. and it's interesting, because it had a different context for african-american performers, because it was more like a-- in a sense, a mime mask is. but when those characters and that style was usurped by white culture, who then didn't really understand, appreciate, honor that tradition that it came from, and it became a caricature then of black behavior at the time. and became offensive actually. >> i, to be truthfully honest with you, just from reading the song titles on the album cover, me and my black friends, in our naiveteÉ, sort of rejected this show. >> brown: because? >> because you know, they had songs like pickaninny shoes and bandanna land, and we heard that there was blackface, and you know, without context, without historical context to sort of look at it through that lens, we immediately rejcted it. and i think, this has been such an amazing journey fore to understand. >> brown: the original 1921

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. >> let's be clear about what blackface actually is. >> willmore knows it is historic. >> you said youort him because of his policies, you supported him because he was black. >> because of the policy that he is black. >> how has he delivered on that? >> i think he's been excellent. i think he's increased the policy of blackness over the past year and a half, i'd say. he has released the black in him. >> a classic answer from the 54-year-old comic, both funny and deadly serious. >> if it feels like "the nightly show" is getting repetitive, i totally agree. now my staff just has to fill in the names. they barely show up for work anymore. >> 15 months after they took over the time slot on "comedy central" taken over by stephen colbert, "the nightly show" is less filled with humor than anyone who has ever taken over a chair. >> i have to provide some glibness in a moment and to provide a story and get humanity out of the story and get comedy in that. sometimes it happens the other way around. when you're covering a story about a man getting shot in the back by a cop as he's trying to run a