Posted on 10/30/2017 1:12:58 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Blackface is as predictable around Halloween as candy, and by now the outrage in response is also pretty predictable.
Plenty of white people, including parents who watched Disney pull its "Maui" zip-up suit costume from store shelves last year in response to accusations of brownface, are probably wondering when, if ever, it's OK to dress up as a figure of another race.
The answer: It depends. Like most issues involving race in our country, avoiding offense at Halloween requires thinking about not just stereotypes or discrimination but also white supremacy.
One problem with racism is that it advances white supremacy -- not just the notion that white people are superior, but also that they are the baseline, the default, the standard in our society.
The tragedy of white supremacy is that it casts whites as ordinarily and fully human, while those of us outside of ordinary -- behind, ahead, exotic or something else altogether -- are denied full humanity.
All this helps us think a little more clearly about Halloween costumes. Sure, dressing up in a stereotype -- a black person as a rapper or an Asian person with a coolie hat -- is offensive, but those are the easy cases. Going deeper: Does your getup present another group as unusual when compared to whites?
Finally, when in doubt, just don't do it. Dealing with power and white supremacy requires caution, and erring on the side of deference is an expression of power we can all get behind.
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“We are becoming a society too stupid to survive.”
Mark Steyn
> Can a white child dress as a Halloween character from another race?
* If it makes a liberal happy, then YES a white child can wear it (e.g. if you can find a way to make fun of Ben Carson or Condoleezza Rice without appearing to be “that race” but only “that ogre”.
Maybe dress as uncle tom with a “Ben Carson” name tag)
* If it makes a liberal unhappy, then IT’S RACIST. (doesn’t actually matter if the costume involves race)
* A liberal somewhere WILL BE UNHAPPY no matter what the white child dresses as. Most will love a costume that makes fun of Trump. Some won’t get the joke and be offended - the “triggering” of the MAGA hat will override their ability to see a joke they would otherwise love. There is no safe costume for a white child if liberals are involved.
Nobody under 60 would know who you were..................>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Well, I could be a hit all over again!
Can a black child dress up as a Halloween Character from another race? of course.
Does anyone remember Al Jolson? His gig was to make up in blackface and mimic black singers, with the correct black vernacular. Not that phony baloney Hillary Clinton gibberish. Jolson would drop on one knee and sing his trademark song, “Mammy”. He was the ONLY white man permitted into a certain black nightclub in Harlem, back before racism became a cottage industry. Google him.
I am tired of these sick assed people of color deciding what white people are allowed to do.
Anything they wish to ya racist witch.
I was once Rastus in a minstrel show in elementary school. We had a blast.
Yeah...your answer deserves Depends.
Some of the snowflake poosies may take your crap to heart and decide that you are the final word on something...but as for me, KMA...my kids and grandkids can do as they damned well please...and I'll ask no one's opinion or permission.
Got it, 'flake?
Now, go to hell, no passing go, either.
“Are people on the USA going insane?”
Do you really have to ask?
Perhaps people o color should eschew anything invented or produced by nasty white folks. Cultural appropriation really is a grave sin.
That is clearly of ET origin.
They'd just think you were Ted Danson..............
The premise of this article is bigoted.
Even white kids dressing up as non-white heroes.
After my Dad passed, I was going through numerous carousels of 35mm slides he had in a closet. One group of pictures was from Halloween in 1962. I was just a tot and wasn’t dressed in a costume but my older siblings were and a couple of pics were of them standing on the porch with a group of maybe 7 or 8 neighborhood kids heading out to Trick or Treat.
Among the cowboys, astronauts and hobos, etc... one of the boys in the group who was maybe 11 or 12 years old, stood out. He was dressed as a “blackfaced” pregnant nun. Haha, this writer’s head (as well as a few others, I’d imagine) would most certainly explode in this day and age. :-)
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