Total Beauty Offers $10,000 to Charity After Mixing Up Black Stars on Race-Fueled Oscars Night

Whoopi-Oprah flub was so bad, some claimed trolling

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There's never a good time for a beauty site to publicly mix up two of Hollywood's top black celebrities, but last night's Oscars was an especially poor moment.

Amid an evening largely defined by frequent racial-inequality discussion, both on stage and online, a site called Total Beauty tweeted an image of Whoopi Goldberg with the caption, "We had no idea Oprah was tatted, and we love it."

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