Blackface

the_andr...@yahoo.com

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Feb 6, 2019, 7:14:51 PM2/6/19

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How many of you have worn blackface or impersonated, or caricature-ized, another social group?

I can remember some things I did. Pretty sure I’ve never worn blackface, especially the vaudevillian style. Also pretty sure I made fun (probably daily) of all my black friends social stereotypes, but that knife cut both ways with my friends.

This whole thing starts as a political gotcha, then spirals out of control, or in this case boomerangs back onto the left.

How would we ever have Eddie Murphy or Richard Pryor today?

cork...@gmail.com

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Feb 6, 2019, 8:21:44 PM2/6/19

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Or Mel Brooks..
Richard Pryor made a living making fun of white folks and we laughed right along with him.
I can't imagine what it must be like to be immune to being called a racist but black america must be high fiving and dapping every day a the last cracker that got called a racist.

Damon Hynes, Cyclone Ranger

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Feb 6, 2019, 8:46:00 PM2/6/19

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On Wednesday, February 6, 2019 at 6:14:51 PM UTC-6, the_andr...@yahoo.com wrote:

I dressed up as Peter Criss once. Cadged a shi tton of hallowe'en candy, too. Does that count?

Damon Hynes, Cyclone Ranger

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Feb 6, 2019, 8:49:40 PM2/6/19

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1972-73, grade school talent show. Five girls (four honkies, one hisp) put on afro wigs and what I assumed was dark Karo syrup or God knows what and lip-synched Jackson 5 songs.

Amazingly, the ACLU didn't show up, nor did the one black kid burn the school down.

btpag...@gmail.com

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Feb 6, 2019, 9:13:00 PM2/6/19

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No chance. I’m quite shocked it’s as common as it apparently is.

I fail to see why it would ever be thought of as funny or clever in a. costume, even in a bubble of ignorance but maybe that’s just me. Clearly it’s a big thing in Virginia.

the_andr...@yahoo.com

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Feb 6, 2019, 10:53:07 PM2/6/19

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> Peter Criss

Half black face.

jim brown

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Feb 6, 2019, 11:15:37 PM2/6/19

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I was an Indian in a jr high play...dressed the part including "brown face".

I swear my brother's class did a play with a blackface part (we were basically an all-white school)...maybe Tom Sawyer?

J. Hugh Sullivan

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Feb 7, 2019, 11:55:35 AM2/7/19

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On Wed, 6 Feb 2019 17:21:42 -0800 (PST), cork...@gmail.com wrote:

>I can't imagine what it must be like to be immune to being called a racist

I could tell you. First of all it is a term used by people who are too
ignorant to rebut what was said.

Hugh

unclejr

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Feb 7, 2019, 1:40:16 PM2/7/19

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The "Nigger Jim" character is the reason why Huckleberry Finn is banned from our public schools.

xyzzy

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Feb 7, 2019, 2:04:52 PM2/7/19

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On Wednesday, February 6, 2019 at 7:14:51 PM UTC-5, the_andr...@yahoo.com wrote:
> How many of you have worn blackface or impersonated, or caricature-ized, another social group?

I haven't that I can remember. But I'm sure if I found myself governor of a state, I would be reminded pretty quickly if there are any cases that I forgot (for which there is photographic evidence, heh).