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White Journalist Says He Wore ‘Black Man Disguise’ to ‘Document Racism’ — Gets Absolutely Roasted Online
His new book about racism in America is getting a lot of attention for all the wrong reasons.

This article originally appeared on Infowars and was republished with permission.
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A Canadian author, who admitted he disguised himself as a black man for a book documenting racism in America, received massive backlash from social media users who criticized the idea as ill-conceived.
“Last summer, I disguised myself as a Black man and traveled throughout the United States to document how racism persists in American society,” read an X post on Tuesday by National Post writer Sam Forster. “Writing Seven Shoulders was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done as a journalist.”
Moreover, a description for Forster’s book Seven Shoulders on Amazon reads, “Six decades after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, award-winning journalist Sam Forster performs a daring transformation in order to taxonomies the various types of racism that persist in modern America.”
“Seven Shoulders is the most important book on American race relations that has ever been written,” the description boldly claims.
News of the book sparked outrage and amusement from all corners of social media, with many puzzled as to why he didn’t just interview black Americans.
You could have spoken with Black Americans…
— TrueWordsRSpoken (@TruWordsRSpoken) May 28, 2024
I have serious questions as to WHY and HOW you disguised yourself as a Black American to write this book!
U had to do blackface to understand the issues black ppl face….?
— court (@k1llacourt) May 28, 2024
You’re a journalist. You could have just interviewed some Black Americans.
— Imani Gandy (Orca’s Version) ⚓️ (@AngryBlackLady) May 28, 2024
This is wild especially considering some other white dude already did this and there’s no way your book is the most important book ever written on race relations. That’s a comical statement.
Or…OR ask a black person about their own experiences!!! Like holy hell.
— x – Tanja (@TanjaBaker1) May 28, 2024
Oh gtfoh….did it ever occur go you to maybe..idk TALK TO BLACK PPL?
— S.A.Cosby (@blacklionking73) May 28, 2024
Others called to see photos of Forster’s cosplay disguise, anticipating images of a white man in blackface.
don’t be a baby drop a pic of you “disguised” as a Black man
— death angel (@angel_0f_deathx) May 28, 2024
lets see a photo Samuel 😂
— peanug (@Peanug420) May 28, 2024
Many also trolled Forster with memes of Robert Downey Jr.’s black face-wearing character in the 2008 comedy, Tropic Thunder.
— Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) May 28, 2024
I saw you at the corner store pic.twitter.com/Odjht3Nprc
— 🙇🏾♂️🙇🏾Blog Boi 🙇🏾🙇🏾♂️ (@YoungLionBlog) May 28, 2024
The experiment’s inspiration was theorized by several X users to be Forster’s national leader Justin Trudeau, who’s notoriously donned blackface in the past.
That was you? pic.twitter.com/fe3BAdsAFi
— Miranda Veracruz de la Jolla Cardinal 🍎🍏 (@MVdlJCardinal) May 28, 2024
Did you use Trudeau’s makeup artist?🤣🤡 pic.twitter.com/VDNe9g1vTi
— The Middle Aged Baby (@MiddleAgedBaby2) May 28, 2024
It was also pointed out the same experiment had already been done by renowned author John Howard Griffin in the 1960s, in a book titled, “Black Like Me.”
Nothing new under the sun. This was published in 1961.
— Red Blooded Son Of The South: Brock Lee Florets (@BrockLeeFlorets) May 28, 2024
Freshman HS required reading pic.twitter.com/XNXiheAPDF
What in the “Black Like Me” is happening here?
— Karen Hunter (@karenhunter) May 28, 2024
“Black Like Me” by John Howard Griffin came out in 1961; unclear what you thought would be groundbreaking about this. There’s no crime scene to investigate. Just listen to Black people when they tell you and open your eyes to something outside your own experience.
— Allison Floyd (@AllisonRFloyd) May 28, 2024
…And by Lois Lane in an old Superman comic.
Lois Lane beat ya to it, my dude. pic.twitter.com/w5mtecLmL3
— Marmel (@Marmel) May 28, 2024
It remains to be seen what if anything comes from this journalist’s inane social experiment, likely intended to sow more racial division in America.
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