RE: The performances were intended to be funny to white audiences. But to the black community, they were demeaning and hurtful.
The obvious next question is WHY?
But to ask is to be condemned as racist already. Ask Megyn Kelly.
It wasn't offensive then; it was de rigeur on Broadway and on TV.
So Michael Jackson lightening his skin wasn't offensive? He was a good looking black kid who died looking like an ugly white woman. There are other blacks who lighten their skin. Why don't you SJW Scumbags single them out. It's "cultural appropriation" (your confused term) and I don't like it.
Historical revisionism. Now with flavor crystals!
My wife and I were talking about this over the weekend during his press conference. We’re not black, but we’re also not offended by black face and don’t think people “used to be”. Again, PC run amok?
As a kid, I remember people “browning” their faces in high school during Halloween to dress up as Bob Marley, the rainbow afro guy from Monday Night Football, Fat Albert, and Michael Jackson. Especially after thriller came out.
To me that’s not racist. I’m lost as to why people think it is. It made the costume better.
I was at a Halloween party in high-school where a white couple came dressed as a black couple. Including blackface.
Another kid, who was black, came dressed in a KKK hood.
The three of them rode home on the bus together.
It was all about poking fun. Nobody took things so seriously.
Its mocking a time gone by.
Does dressing up as a Pilgrim on thanksgiving “mock” Pilgrims?
I...don’t...care.
I am so tired of every bit of all this race crap. It is hypocritical to the max and one way as h**l.
I fail to se the difference in White Chicks.
They dressed up as white girls in white face, to wear and apply accentuated features of whites, to play a highly stereotyped role for the amusement of audiences.
Its just another double standard.
Botom line is all this stuff the race baiters do is not about ending anything, its about hatred and revenge on people who do not or think what they claim all white people do and think.
Further this whole claim is worthless as the standard is only applied whenmits convenient, or on their enemies, and let their friends slide. Like the Ted Danson/Whoopi photo example.
Sad times we are in. Socialists have succeeded in balkanizing peoples and we are far worse off, all on purpose.
A Woman who's cultural background is India's Caste system is lecturing us about how Americans used to treat their underclass.
India still treats it's "untouchable" underclass like sh*t.
What about a white European woman demanding that she is an American Indian or an Italian dressing up like an Indian and making you feel guilty you throw crap out the window of your car?
But more importantly, what about all the drunk Irish?
You mean the guy in that photo with the plaid pants was wearing face paint?
Damn.
I gotta get new glasses.
I don’t need convincing that it is wrong to make fun of others. Especially whole groups of others, while you portray thusly your superiority. No need for a lesson. Blackface is not ok.
Spoofing individuals should be done carefully as well, but can be quite funny, especially when the roastee is also laughing.
It's always a thrill to be lectured on racial insensitivity by a son of the Indian Subcontinent, where they honed the practice into a fine art.
Caste System, anyone? And don't let the Untouchables handle the luggage!
Demeaned? Unikely. And they laughed the loudest at Richard Pryor blacking up Gene Wilder in 'Silver Streak.'
The difference today is that 50% of American society raised on collective guilt and the original sin of racism walks around like an open sore, just itching to find offense, hatred, bias, and all of the other sores they've been raised to hunt down like bloodhounds. Two generations of being told "You mustn't say 'hate', honey" and "Be sure you're becoming to everyone, honey" has now become the adults who act like squalling toddlers. And God help us all, because these imbeciles will decide whether to keep our life support machines running...
I suppose Sarah Palin deserved all the crap she got because she was white.
The purpose of the 'black face' abomination was to reinforced stereotypes about black citizens that WERE NOT TRUE. Showing blacks to be silly and childlike worked as an excuse to NOT grant blacks full rights.
This is the same tactic used by democrats in their portrail of conservative citizen with their "fake hate crimes" that reinforce stereotypes that are NOT true... about conservatives in our own time. Democrats are attempting to use 'black face/fake hate crimes' to show liberals they have the right to treat us as sub-humans - - just like democrats did to black citizens in the Jim Crow South and before...