Posted on 12/07/2021 7:47:50 AM PST by C19fan
For her first Great Dickens Christmas Fair in 2015, LaToya Tooles fashioned a gown out of dollar-store hula hoops and a tablecloth. A friend had invited her to the annual event, a festive re-creation of 19th century London inspired by the works of Charles Dickens that has been running in San Francisco for nearly 40 years.
Almost as soon as she arrived at the antique winter wonderland, she joined the revelers on Fezziwig’s dance floor and didn’t stop waltzing for hours.
“I met some of my greatest friends at the Dickens Fair,” says Tooles, who went on to join the event’s volunteer cast, taking on bigger roles and more responsibility each year.
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Life sucks for the perpetually offended.
Were there black performers at both events back then? Yes. I knew some of them well. Were they dealing with constant racist comments from customers? I didn't hear any. I suspect this cabal of plus-sized Jussies are just trying to get their fifteen minutes of fame out of an organization that has always been liberal in its views and mission. I don't support extortion but - like many liberal organizations - the Fair's promoters are in a lot of ways getting exactly what they voted for.
Totally subjective as perceived according to pre-judgment standards as derived from 'great expectations'! Also known as received micro-aggression. Remember, the most 'victimized' is the cultural winner!
Maybe the he-she shoulda stuck to painting.
For years, Yovel advocated as a representative of the Order of the Golden Needle
Formerly known as 'The Tucking of the Inconvenient Needle'.
Make them watch a few episodes of Downtown Abby they blow their MINDS!!
It’s a peculiar form of Western suicide.
We Jewish people certainly have self-loathing Jews — Soros comes to mind right away.
But it’s an old Western tendency. The Greeks effectively destroyed their own civilization. The Romans came “invaded” and called the cities “cities populated by statutes and not men.” They met no resistance and camped in empty buildings.
Especially Christmas parades... Brandon's thugs bring such sadness to our world...
Anything done by a conservative...
Thanks for standing with us... it's comforting Jewbacca.
According to the article, showing credentials at all the security checkpoints.
-PJ
Kinda like our First Lady, huh?
The author clearly needs a glass of Dickens Cider.
That is surely what it looks like but I don’t understand because it goes against all natural human instinct. Do they really not see that eradicating ones own ethnic group will leave one vulnerable to the same fate once it is achieved?
“Can we not have blacks doing Shakespeare or Dickens or anything else worth reading?”
Well, there’s Othello...
As Dickens journaled in Oliver Twist, the Victorian period was one of severe classism, anti-semitism, mysogeny, and child abuse. The “Currier and Ives Christmas Card” version is a myth that was promoted by American anglophiles who secretly prefer monarchy and probably binged on “Upstairs, Downstairs” and “Downton Abbey”.
There were a few very prominent and successful blacks in London during this time that may have partied with the “waltzing gentry” but not many. My favorite example was the black circus entrepreneur Pablo Fanque whom the Beatles made famous in their song “Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite”.
How could a reasonable person not stand with you?
This is just so stupid, it makes me shake.
It has nothing to do with racism or security or anything legitimate.
They just hate white people.
They want the memory of European culture (the good bits) forgotten or destroyed or appropriated.
It’s why Brigerton (the Netflix show with black English royalty) is fine.
It’s why they pretend we Jews are not Jews and they are Jews.
Or how the Egyptians are now suddenly black.
Or how blacks discovered America.
Or whatever black-centric nonsense they push.
They are from a culture and people that has done almost nothing of value in human history.
They lived in mud huts for 10,000 years while the rest of the world smelted metal, created modern governance, science, engineering, music, culture, and the rest of the modern world. They are a pre-Bronze age people.
All this is just an attempt at stealing, and laying claim, to the work of the rest of the world.
Anything they do and then blame everyone else for it.
I went to the Renaissance Faire in the 90s. As I recall, it was right off Highway 37, between Vallejo and Highway 101. Is that the place you are referring to?
That’s the one. Too high-rent an area to host public events after the mid 90’s. It’s a golf course with expensive homes today. :)
Trying to rewrite history. All the white participants should demand population percentage representation at the next Africa festival, basketball tournament, jazz club, A.M.E. hymn sing, etc. Notice that it’s all women making this fuss.
I can certainly agree with an end to sexual harassment and racist remarks, but characterizing one of the most beloved pieces of popular English literature as racist because it has English people in it is really wack.
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