Mike Ertel resigns as Florida secretary of state after blackface photos surface

Orlando Sentinel ^ | 1/24/2019 | Steven Lemongello

[fruser1]

Link only as you probably know this story from January.

The trio in Virginia need to live by the same PC standards that the Dems and press impose on the rest of the country.

The Richmond Trio need to resign NOW!

[fruser1]

I'll only consider ceasing the application of "the rules" to the Democrats when they stop applying them to everyone else. The press has been in cahoots. The Dems and the press have been libeling the US as a racist and misogynist country and falsely accusing their enemies of it for decades. They need to live up to their own rules.

[HighSierra5]

Rats will be rats.

[ronnie raygun]

Will actor Ted Danson resign from being and actor for black face? Lets ask hypocrite whoopee on the view she thought it was hilarious

[joma89]

But let’s never forget the leftist double standard. Black people can put on white face and it is funny and entertaining, with nobody protesting it. White people even pay money to see it.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0381707/

JoMa

[Caipirabob]

In before they fake a photo of President Trump... 3..2..1..

[HighSierra5]

What about Gene Wilder in Silver Streak ? Oh wait. He’s dead. If he were alive and lucid he might have something to say that would make everybody laugh.

[Yo-Yo]

[Tallguy]

This is like the second-round of the #metoo thing. It’s the latest cause-celeb that’s got bodies dropping everywhere.

[Rockingham]

I get the complaint about double standards and hypocrisy, but for at least five decades, anyone with a lick of sense has to know that a White person putting on blackface and playing fool is disrespectful to Black people. So why do it?

[Londo Molari]

I wouldn’t even call that “Black-face”. This is supremely asinine! The guy just had a dirty face, almost like the Klingons from the original Star Trek.

[marktwain]

I get the complaint about double standards and hypocrisy, but for at least five decades, anyone with a lick of sense has to know that a White person putting on blackface and playing fool is disrespectful to Black people. So why do it?

Who gets to make these silly rules? Who enforces them?

We see many making fun of white men all the time.

Just watch current television commercials.

This is just another way for the Progressive left to rule over the rest of us.

[windowdude]

I dressed up like Buckwheat [little rascals] for Halloween about 35 years ago. Went out on 6th street in Austin TX and no one said a word.

Just goes to show all this ‘conceived as racism’ crap is manufactured for political purposes.

[Aevery_Freeman]

<>"“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.”."<>

[Rockingham]

Objectionable things are best objected to directly instead of elliptically, and there are better ways to fight the Left that do not involve needlessly offending Black people.

[Rockingham]

Sensibilities have changed, and I am sure that you would know better than to dress up like Buckwheat today. Again, why offend Black people? Why do something that would have even your Black friends shaking their heads?

[mosesdapoet]

Blackface photos surface, joma89 wrote: But let’s never forget the leftist double standard. Black people can put on white face and it is funny and entertaining, with nobody protesting it. White people even pay money to see it.

This is so silly.
Blackface theatrical cosmetic use in a staging presentation probably goes back hundreds of years also very likely probably used in Shakespear’s plays.. More often than not it was used because the story line called for a a black person who was not available to perform in whatever it called for.It just demonstrates just how far we are allowing the revisionists pervert an original intention and poison it to promote their guilt agenda.

[TheNext]

Because you save the First Amendment by using it.

So go ahead and offend black people, brown & white people, & Muslims & Mohammed too.

Offend them all.

Why? Because you told us not to.

[moovova]

You’re safe as long as you’re not a Republican AND running for office.

Of course, all bets are off if a Democrat has recently stepped in it by saying something stupid about abortion. Then you’re gonna go down in flames no matter how inconsequential you are.

[marktwain]

Again, why offend Black people?

You are missing the point.

The question is not "Why offend Black people?"

The question is: Should careers be destroyed, just because thirty years ago, someone did something that might have offended black people if they had noticed?

There is a huge jump from the common sense

"Do not offend when there is not need to do so." to

"Destroy the career of anyone who ever might have been shown to do something offensive."

[marktwain]

Because you save the First Amendment by using it.

So go ahead and offend black people, brown & white people, & Muslims & Mohammed too.

Offend them all.

Why? Because you told us not to.

Good point. The Progressives rule over us by telling us what is moral and what is not.