Comedian Druski is coming under fire for a “white face” performance in which he donned incredibly realistic makeup and proceeded to cosplay as a racist NASCAR fan.
The black comedian, 30, looked unrecognizable after he painted his entire face, arms and torso to a believably Caucasian tone — and even added some extra detail to the bit with a farmer’s tan sunburn at a recent NASCAR race.
He completed the redneck character’s look with a mullet, beard, American flag cowboy hat and a pair of overalls with no shirt revealing American flag tattoos.
The skit — which has gone mega-viral — shows Druski, legal name Andrew Desbordes, palling around with tailgaters at the race, talking in an exaggerated southern accent, toasting Budweisers with fellow white attendees and blasting Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA.”
In one part of the clip, which has been viewed more than 52 million times on X and received more than 468,000 likes, he disgustedly spits at the feet of a black man walking past him while leaning against the hood of a car.
In another moment, he stops his truck beside a black man and asks him “You lost, boy?” When the man tells him he’s going to the NASCAR race, Druski leans out the window, spits, and tell him to “find something safe to do, boy.”
Druski’s 1.2 million followers on X marveled at his commitment to the bit.
“The white skin is one thing.. but adding the f–king sunburn farmers tan is going above and beyond,” one user commented.
“This is Tropical Thunder levels of race swap. How did he make it look so good,” another wondered, referencing the 2007 movie in which Robert Downey Jr. played an overzealous actor who wears blackface.
“Your makeup artist needs some sort of award,” one user wrote on the viral clip.
One user went as far to call the skit “probably the highest level of performance art this generation will ever witness.”
But others said his nakedly racist portrayal of a NASCAR fan was a low blow.
“Conflicted because it’s funny but also I kinda hate to see it,” wrote Holden Edward. “It’s hard enough as it is trying to tell people that you watch NASCAR without them either 1) giving you s–t or 2) judging the hell out of you.”
“This is EXACTLY the stereotype the sport needs to get away from lol,” said another NASCAR follower. “No hate to Druski, he does funny stuff, but it’s mind boggling that we have a driver involved with something like this.”
“Great, now we have Druski cosplaying as a racist white dude, and he not only [is] harassing black dudes but he spits at the feet of multiple black men walking in the parking lot going to the NASCAR race,” another netizen groaned.
