Why not?
Posted on 09/19/2019 2:12:26 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau apologized Thursday after three instances of him in blackface resurfaced in less than 24 hours, but left open the possibility that more footage could come to light.
“I am wary of being definitive about this, because the recent pictures that came out, I had not remembered,” Trudeau said, according to CNBC.
Trudeau’s comments come after a video resurfaced on Thursday that showed Trudeau in dark makeup, raising his hands in the air and making faces while wearing a white T-shirt and jeans ripped at the knees.
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When asked if there were other similar instances during his apology, Trudeau told reporters he also wore dark makeup at a high school talent show while performing the Harry Belafonte song “Day-O.”
“I shouldn’t have done it, I should have known better, but I didn’t," Trudeau said Wednesday night, referring to the 2001 photo. "And I’m really sorry."
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Ok, I admit, i did blackface twice in life. In 4th grade in the year of 1979 I did a book report on Pele’. My mom burnt a cork and applied the ash to my face. There is a photo of it somewhere my mom and dads house.
For the next time it was for The Bayonne bombers rugby football club Halloween party. Me and two teammates went as Run DMC. Three guys of Irish heritage walking down Wahsington St. In Hoboken NJ. with black face as RUN DMC. Everybody loved, it was diverse crowd.
We won the costume contest.
I also went as Mr. Clean, a chip and dale dancer, And twice as princess leigh; slave girl costume and once in the white gown with a wig.
Black face, so what?
Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery.
I vote Republican
Why not?
“What difference does it make at this time anyhooo?” - Old Lady Klintoon excuse
this is why I left Kanada. The idiot masses voted for this idiot..
Well our idiots voted for Obama, twice.
“Well our idiots voted for Obama, twice.”
Man, I got pwned there LOL But people voted for Trump. We’re stuck with this closet fudgepacker..
Yep, I remembered the days we envied Canadians because you had Harper.
Nothing will happen to him. Zip.
And the ultimate damnation for progressives/liberals/’tards/whatevers is the fact that had you or I done this, we would be in for an everlasting world of derision, hate, and maltreatment.
Their time is coming. It will not be a happy time for them.
I worked on his campaign in 2005. In Vancouver. Youngest campaign manager in our district. Vancover is so left, it makes San Fran look like the GOP office so I had a couple of assholes get in my face every day..
You should add a photo of Justin Trudeau wearing a Cuban military uniform and a cigar in his mouth. He looks like Fidel Castro just like Ronan Farrow looks like Frank Sinatra. Ronan Farrow does not look like Woody Allen and Justin Trudeau does not look like Pierre Trudeau, not that I want to cast any aspersions regarding his mother, Margaret Trudeau
You know....I don’t get what’s so bad about this. It isn’t like he was making fun from what I can tell - he was dressed as a character who has dark skin. So what?
Maybe someone can explain.
I visited Vancouver last year. Pretty city, but it had more street bums than any city I’ve ever visited.
The Gods on the Left decided that doing this is racist.
We are just making them stick to the standards they set.
He was elected Prime Minister almost 4 years ago.
He has had held elected office for 11 years.
His Father was a former Prime Minister.
And, we are just finding out about this now?
How many Canadian journalists, political insiders, and personal friends have been sitting on this story for the last two decades?
[It matters because the Number One Scold has been caught doing what he would automatically criticize in any other political figures. He can’t turn around and say, “well now that you have evidence of me doing this, it doesn’t matter any more.”]
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Exactly this. Just amazing how some people here don’t get that. Instead, they rush to help out little Trudeau.
He shouldn’t have apologized.
Much ado over nothing, only important to those making political hay of it.
I say this as a member of the PPC that will be distributing flyers for the party as well as working as a scrutineer on election day.
There is more than enough substantial things to criticize Trudeau about without resorting to this race-mongering nonsense.
“Is this an “intellectual” thing to do?
Because among myself and my friends when we were young, it NEVER occurred to us to wear blackface.
We weren’t for or against it.
It just NEVER occurred to us.”
Same here.
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