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?
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
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.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery - but lefties aren’t too bright - they probably never heard this old bit of wisdom.....
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.
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.
$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?
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.
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