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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Leave children alone! Let them dress as whomever they please. There are NO LAWS CONCERNING HALLOWEEN COSTUMES!
Did she object to the ESPN reporter culturally appropriating the urban youth bling custom by wearing the Miami turnover chain at her school’s most recent game?
Danson doesn’t even begin to look like Al Jolson did. His makeup is translucent, Jolsons was black and opaque.
Hah, no mistaking the whole hog, LOL.
Fugly and stupid to boot.
Yes they can and my child nor does any other white child need your Fing permission to do it.
One school replaced Halloween with “Hat day”?
W T F is happening to the USA?
Hat... Day...
Whos idea was it, Kevin Spaceys? Cause it screams GAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have an echo dot, I asked it if Kevin Spacey was gay and it said he is.
It also knew what farfegnugen was, to my surprise.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
farfegnugen. Youre an old soul. :)
“..W T F is happening to the USA?...”
You already know that answer, brother.
The real question is - why do the majority - US - put up with it and let it happen.
I had heard the word before but I didn’t actually know what it was, I would have guessed some kind of casserole. ;p
An old VW ad campaign slogan...HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yu Darvish might be the WS MVP, for Houston...
For real.
Hale’s a big fan of his though.
These mini-commercials are an unwelcome addition, at least Tim McCarver is still gone.
They are, but, theyre better than regular ads, no?
Speaking of ads, when the full length ads are on, I flip to a WW2 flick, Play Dirty, with Michael Caine. Its a Dirty Dozen rip-off, but still good.
Michael Caine = one of my all time favs.
Did you see some/all NBA teams have corporate ads in their uniforms now?
I like Tim McCarver’s folksiness.
Congrats to Houston. Again, it was an excellent Works Series.
World. F*****g autocorrect.
"There is a certain class of race problem-solvers who don't want the patient to get well,
because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living,
but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public."
Booker T Washington
Some dude once threw a regular old 2-seam fastball and McCarver marveled at the amazing "reverse slider. ;p
I haven't been watching BLMball, that's unsurprising, I hope they don't end up like racecar drivers.
Rather quiet end to game 7 but great series overall. Congrats Houston, win #1 for the relatively young franchise.
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