Rats will be rats.
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
In before they fake a photo of President Trump... 3..2..1..
This is like the second-round of the #metoo thing. It’s the latest cause-celeb that’s got bodies dropping everywhere.
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?
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.
I think the fact that he’s dressed as a woman and looks wasted in the photo should not be discounted as clues to other skeletons someone is waiting to spring on him.
I was in college at the same time most of these politicians were and I did attend my share of parties. I never once saw anyone in blackface. Hard for me to get my head around this prevalence among politicians.
Exactly! Thanks for stating that so succinctly.
I just don’t get this uproar over black face! It’s coming from the younger generation... older folks may not look at it the same way. And those younger folks are guilty of very harash rude... so what’s the fuss over? The media and even congress, control people by name calling? Lordy, it’s pitiful to give in for such pettiness.
obama and hillary called us conservatives names ... turned us into dumb people who can’t think for ourselves... we have no brains.. and worse.
The black race don’t like black face? It brings back the times when they were slaves? It’s been a long time since any of them were ‘slaves’.. in that vein. But look at what the years have brought.
The slaves were freed... and ever since, the black race has tried to keep all of them on their own “plantation”.
I go back to around 30 years ago... A black friend of my son sent his daughter to private school, to get a better education... and was hit on by other blacks, telling him he was trying to be white... you think you are better... etc. The guy was trying to make it better for his children and was turned on by those he knew.
The black race, as a whole... (exceptions of course), stayed with the wrong party... the democrats... and still today, it’s a shame to go Republican. What has the dem party done for them? welfare, Sanger, babies without a father in the mix, money in the wrong places, absolute loyalty to the dems and then wonder why it isn’t working. They are not allowed to get out of the rut of that control, and make something of themselves.
We decimated Japan in the war... and since then, their society has put the utmost importance on education. We used to have goods here in the US to buy.. and if it said “made in Japan”, it was considered junk. Not so today. They honed in on the one thing... education... and that was the goal for their kids. They have become the techs of the world.... and I know parents who have taught their children more than just “school”... they speak more than one language and use their talents for many things.
The black race, had it done the same, would be in a position today to be the greatest in whatever they chose. The ones who did, have succeeded.. those who did what their bosses told them to... are just stuck. Self appointed leaders took the reins and led them down the wrong financial path... THEY took the money and gave nothing back. Sharpton... Jackson... come to mind.
There was a church in Atlanta led by Long. He invited an investor to speak in his church... it was a huge black attended church.. and Long backed the man. Many invested in this man’s scheme and lost all their savings. CBS did a story on this and it was on local TV. The reporter ask one elderly black man if he invested and the man said he did. Did he lose everything, yes. The reporter asked if he was still going to the church and the man said, “Yes.”.
They won’t leave their enslavers and the enslavers keep them in by threats and name calling... or more. Why? Why can’t they be successful? Why can’t they “act white” if that is anything to label? Why can’t they see the democratic party has done nothing for them but keep them down so they’ll keep voting for them.. which makes absolutely NO sense.
So what is wrong with black face... I’m not sure... I had a JFK holloween mask at one time... and after he was killed, I would not let my kids wear it for holloween... I thought it was not proper.. and I can see the same for black face... but this is being carried way too far... and it’s political... Political is used so much it’s lost its flavor.. yet people are still controlled by it.
We’ve lost our common sense and let emotions and men/women in power control what we think and what we react to. Some have also lost their ability to have a mind that works and can sift through the mess that is out there every day... put there for people who won’t think for themselves.
Democrat?
Applying today’s insane standards to a time long gone, which will never come back.
The purpose of ‘black-face’ in the Jim Crow South was for democrats to undermine the black community by propping up negative stereotypes that were NOT true about black citizens.
Blacks were made to look childish, silly, easily frightened, violent, or stupid. Those stereotypes allowed white citizens to ignore the violence done against black citizens.
Black-face served the same purpose for democrats back then that FAKE HATE CRIMES serves for them today against conservative Americans. Democrats create a negative stereotype of conservatives - then they (and their cohorts in the press) use fake hate crimes to hold up those stereotypes.
Steven Lemongello is right - there needs to be one standard...
An illegal killing a citizen doesn’t get this much attention.
Or, anger.
Kind of ironic the majority are Dems....
To me “blackface” is not about putting black stuff on your face. It is about how you act once you’ve done it. AND it is about stereotypical behavior. If you make a video of a black face person standing at a blackboard writing down the mathematics of Maxwell’s Equations, people see it as a non sequitur and scratch their heads thinking “What is that about?”.
Same video showing blackface person trying but failing to play basketball or dancing with “white boy” rhythm it conveys the stereotypical difference between whites and blacks. And it can be funny.
Bottom line, for a stereotype to be funny there must be an element of truth to it.