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Posted on 02/06/2019 4:23:53 PM PST by TrumpisRight
The left has done an amazing job changing the conversation from infanticide to blackface and we fell for it.
Have any blacks done whitface?
Other than Michael Jackson.
And this trash has been moved to chat where it belongs.
$500 vanity tax?
I’ve been asking that question since this story came out. I don’t understand any of it. It’s reported as being the worse thing to come about since the Manson murders. All about nothing as far as I can tell. I never knew what the hulabaloo was about when Megyn Kelly got fired over the same thing. She made out A-OK so I’m sure she’s not lamenting her statement but that didn’t make any sense then either!
I said it before and I’ll no doubt continue to do so, I was raised in part of the NE without a shred of prejudice/bigotry in the entire community - farm country, small town school, community, churches - farthest thing from our minds was thinking about how much we hated the black man. We didn’t have ANY blacks so how could we hate them? Today - THEY are doing a pretty good job of seeing that my thinking process is changing with every one of these stories and I don’t deny it or regret it. Go ahead and call me a racist - see if I care. You can call me a locomotive and it won’t bother me either.
When do we see the call to exhume Al Jolson?
You know... as a musician I thought about this. It could be that the early minstrels had respect for the black music and vocal capabilities. There have been many famous cases where famous white musicians and artists had great appreciation for black music, many incorporated it into their style. Musicians are a different kind of critter spiritually, they could have been secretly protesting how blacks were being treated and this is how they did it. Many were from the northern states.
I think there is something to this... Especially with musicians and artists who were and are also philosophers.
Nobody really cares about it. It imposes a limitation on white people. Not that it was a widespread practice after the minstrel show era, but to make it an absolute taboo and have goon squads on the lookout for it intimidates whites. “Oh I hope nobody thinks I’m racist!” Frankly its manipulation. Nobody cared in the 90s when media darling Jimmy Kimmel did it. Hillary Clinton did it. Nobody said much about the movie where the black guys played two white girls. It us just a tactic. The media can gin up anger about biscuits if they want to. Proper response is: “So what?”
Jesus is a tough act to follow.
I do what I can.
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Richard Prior in Silver Streak.
“White Chicks”
Gotta see that!
If you look at the history of “blackface” or depictions of blacks in cartoons from the ante-bellum period, you will see how ugly it is. I’ve seen some artwork from that period which is truly disgusting. Which is not to say that I don’t enjoy Irene Dunne’s performance in Showboat in which she not only appears in blackface, she also “shuffles” - to Paul Robeson’s amusement. But then she was brilliant, the Governor of Virginia...not so much.
While I think the hysteria over black-face is overdone, the intent is not to show admiration for black people, but to mock them. Black people have a right to be offended, and it’s in bad taste, though I don’t believe it’s a reason to end careers or call people racists.
I'm so confused. I wish some leftist would tell me whether I should be offended or not. /s
I guess that is why so many people are now acting like President Trump and getting into the faces of leftists to push back.
I know I am and it causes leftists to melt down because I am not just falling in line like they demand I do. I am looking forward to the eventual doxxing and physical threats that others have received. It will mean ‘I have arrived’ and am now such a thorn that they need to attack me.
JoMa
Later on of course. But if you take a look at just the minstrel era, these were highly celebrated artists performing at a time when catching a show was far and few in between, if ever for some. These artists were indeed understood to be intelligent and talented for their accomplishments, they were rock stars per say. Yet they did black face.
Could they have been trying to make the perception of their own intelligence and talent also be associated and extended to blacks? Music has always been one of those color blind fields of art and entertainment. There is no color or ethnicity, only talent and skills which have always been appreciated by fellow artists and fans of all backgrounds.
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