Posted on 02/06/2019 4:23:53 PM PST by TrumpisRight
We emulate those people that we admire, so why is someone putting on "blackface" is considered negative?
There is nothing racist about blackface.
The left insists on their power to define what is "racist".
It has become so bad that the definition of "racist" means anyone opposed to the left. Consider all the calls that Donald Trump is "racist" with no evidence that he is.
To the Progressive Left, as it has become, President Donald Trump's existence is "racist" because it blocks their power.
We usually admire more substance than this post on FR. I see where you’re going with this tripe, but please, really.
So you admire people that post stupid vanities as news?
I stand somewhat corrected. You finally posted something in addition, albeit weak, better than just the title.
So you admire people that post stupid vanities as news?
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Work on your reading comprehension, spittle flecked hillbilly.
We emulate those people who we admire.
Duh, for the same reason that we name our sports teams after people we want to belittle and ridicule. Like Redskins because we hate Indians, and Catholics hated Ireland so they named their team “Fighting Irish”. /s
It’s a single sentence posted as news.
Argue with that, jackass.
You don’t have to be politically correct to know that blackface was a grotesque caricature to make black people look goofy and seem inferior to whites. Whites could laugh at the blackface character and feel smugly superior. This appeals to some really base things in human nature.
There’s a point to this... on the other hand the point about emulating those we admire is also valid. A more stoic, staid white society loved the spontaneity and heartiness they saw in parts of black society, especially freedmen and Christian. Black people weren’t oafs in this vision. They were people who were free to be different as they chose.
The history of chattel slavery also raises its ugly head. That created an underclass that didn’t have to exist, and fed kidnapping in Africa. The bible vision of “slaves” in Ephesians is actually that of voluntary servants (”masters, give up threatening.”) Sometimes that was realized, but sometimes great cruelty prevailed.
Anyhow, it would be good if we could get past these social stigmas when dealing with checkered subjects, but the situation is what it is.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery - but lefties aren’t too bright - they probably never heard this old bit of wisdom.....
The first all-black (not blackface) Broadway musical was a rip roarer titled “In Dahomey.” It was a comedy about a con game in the voluntary repatriation business, which was big in the late 1800s. People get upset over that kind of thing today too.
Again, had these shows never existed there wouldn’t be a problem.
They emulate Satan without even knowing it or caring about it either because, they are their own little gods.
It all started in the garden of Eden.
And... white people COULD do that, but the question is whether they WOULD do that. It did represent an awkward era in which it would have been easily possible to get actual black people to act in character, but they weren’t widely allowed on the stage. So in that sense, racism is reflected, even though the walls to Hollywood have long fallen.
And it all ends with Christ.
Yeah, but the title should be:
We emulate those people who we admire.
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Yeah, and I’m sure you squeaked that discerning critique out just before humbleslathering, were it not for his Wednesday night whittlin’wingding.
Yep.
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