# Drunk Like Me **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 27, 2006, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drunk-like-me/341854 "2006-01-27T16:20:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2006, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drunk-like-me/341854/21 "2006-01-28T00:14:00Z")
Eddie Murphy went undercover as a white guy. You can see the results here: [http://www.jokaroo.com/funnyvideos/white\_eddie\_murphy.html](http://www.jokaroo.com/funnyvideos/white_eddie_murphy.html) \<=== Video loads on that link. Hoax? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Ed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Just\_Ed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Ed)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2006, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drunk-like-me/341854/22 "2006-01-28T00:39:06Z")
I don’t have any information regarding _Black Like Me_, but I thought it might be of interest to note FX’s new show premiering in March: [Black.White.](http://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/originals/blackwhite/main.html) ---
**Author:** ![outside\_artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7993a0/32.png) [@outside\_artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outside_artist)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2006, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drunk-like-me/341854/23 "2006-01-28T00:45:44Z")
That was too cool. He is a genius with makeup and characters. I wish he had used it in the same way as Griffin! ---
**Author:** ![outside\_artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7993a0/32.png) [@outside\_artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outside_artist)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2006, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drunk-like-me/341854/24 "2006-01-28T00:48:16Z")
Wow! That show is about exactly this stuff! I am going to check it out! ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2006, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drunk-like-me/341854/25 "2006-01-28T01:56:19Z")
There was another male reporter who disguised himself as a black man and spent 30 days in the South His experience was pretty much identical to Griffin’s. And gosh, Griffin doesn’t look black at all compared to a real black man like [Jean Toomer](http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/toomer/toomerbio.html#Cane) ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2006, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drunk-like-me/341854/26 "2006-01-28T03:04:04Z")
> [@Not a Well Woman](#): > > Has anyone read _Mutant Message Down Under_? It was first published as non-fiction, but when it came out in paperback, the category was fiction. It seems that the author tried to palm it off as a mamoir, traveling around and giving talks etc., but then it was found out that she was full of it and that it was just a fantasy. IIRC That book involved claims of telepathy among the Aborigines. RE Black Like Me I fail to see the problem. Black people come in a wide variety of shapes and colors. The linked picture of Griffin would not stand out. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2006, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drunk-like-me/341854/27 "2006-01-28T05:53:41Z")
I got this from some movieTV makeup artist special effects website years ago. i can’t seem to find it anymore. [Black woman with makeup, contacts, nose pros. & wig passing as white](http://home.comcast.net/~cpeek001/b-to-w.jpg) See also [Race relations to be seen in ‘Black. White’ Documentary allows families to see life in another person’s skin](http://www.latam.msnbc.com/id/10390784/) ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2006, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drunk-like-me/341854/28 "2006-01-28T16:25:27Z")
Check out these pictures of [Walter](http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/media_content/m-1323.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Multimedia.jsp%3Fid%3Dm-1323&h=300&w=200&sz=14&tbnid=WuAeGwMAoZrlYM:&tbnh=111&tbnw=74&hl=en&start=3&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dwalter%2Bwhite%2BNaacp%26svnum%3D50%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26newwindow%3D1%26safe%3Doff%26rls%3DGGLD,GGLD:2005-18,GGLD:en) [White](http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/3-organized/images/wilkinswhitemarshall.jpg&imgrefurl=http://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/3-organized/mr-civil-rights.html&h=358&w=481&sz=45&tbnid=mOlkjcaQc9lKLM:&tbnh=93&tbnw=126&hl=en&start=5&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dwalter%2Bwhite%2BNaacp%26svnum%3D50%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26newwindow%3D1%26safe%3Doff%26rls%3DGGLD,GGLD:2005-18,GGLD:en), the NAACP’s one-time National Secretary and then tell me that John Griffin couldn’t pass. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2006, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drunk-like-me/341854/29 "2006-01-28T17:28:55Z")
> [@Not a Well Woman](#): > > Society was ripe-nay hungry-for juicy antics like Griffin’s, and I still can’t help but think that the whole thing may have been someone’s brillliant scam. The fact that society was ripe for such an “undercover” investigation was exactly why Griffin did it. Given that fact that it is entirely plausible, given Griffin’s appearance in disguise and the unlikelihood that anybody would question his self-identification; the nature of the rest of his career; and the fact that there doesn’t seem to be any serious evidence that he fabricated it, I don’t see any reason to doubt his account. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drunk-like-me/341854.md?page=1)