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She will certainly have her supporters here (and investigation may end up with nothing happening to her), but who in this internet day and age ever thought this would be appropriate to do in public, let alone a teacher.
Do you call out Asians or Blacks for dyeing their hair blonde or for using blue colored contact lenses? Isn't that cultural appropriation too?
Or is it OK with you for all others to appropriate our culture but we must be hyper sensitive to the so very precious feelings of minorities?
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Black face is not about cultural appropriation. Black face was a specific method of denigrating black people by white actors dressing up, darkening their skin, and acting out racist stereotypes. What this teacher and others who do the same, did is harken back to a time when it was acceptable for white people to denigrate black people by putting on black face.
Black face is not about cultural appropriation. Black face was a specific method of denigrating black people by white actors dressing up, darkening their skin, and acting out racist stereotypes. What this teacher and others who do the same, did is harken back to a time when it was acceptable for white people to denigrate black people by putting on black face.
And how long ago was this? Is that why the teacher wore blackface?
Black face is not about cultural appropriation. Black face was a specific method of denigrating black people by white actors dressing up, darkening their skin, and acting out racist stereotypes. What this teacher and others who do the same, did is harken back to a time when it was acceptable for white people to denigrate black people by putting on black face.
How is what this teacher did the same as blackface of a hundred years ago???
Every other teacher in the group, who portrayed a character from Napoleon Dynamite, was fine and dandy, but this teacher could not portray the movie's character who happened to be black? Wouldn't it have been more racist for the group to exclude the black character?
I'm trying to understand the offense, in this situation, as well as the current brouhaha about Megan Kelley (whom I have literally never watched). I keep reading that a white person dressing up as a black person is "not acceptable" but I truly do not understand why. The extension of this thinking is that no one should EVER dress up as anyone else. I mean really, no race should get exclusive rights to being "offended" by a costume.
Millions of people in the world dress up very year as millions of people/characters, and it's perfectly ok......UNTIL a white person dresses up as a black person. How does this "rule" make a speck of sense?
She will certainly have her supporters here (and investigation may end up with nothing happening to her), but who in this internet day and age ever thought this would be appropriate to do in public, let alone a teacher.
That's where the busybody factor is at now. We "investigate" costumes to decide whether to indict and prosecute, only since it is just accuse instead of indict and prosecute is just fired from job, that makes it OK.
Should a teacher know better? Sure. But really? Investigating costumes?
How is what this teacher did the same as blackface of a hundred years ago???
Every other teacher in the group, who portrayed a character from Napoleon Dynamite, was fine and dandy, but this teacher could not portray the movie's character who happened to be black? Wouldn't it have been more racist for the group to exclude the black character?
I'm trying to understand the offense, in this situation, as well as the current brouhaha about Megan Kelley (whom I have literally never watched). I keep reading that a white person dressing up as a black person is "not acceptable" but I truly do not understand why. The extension of this thinking is that no one should EVER dress up as anyone else. I mean really, no race should get exclusive rights to being "offended" by a costume.
Millions of people in the world dress up very year as millions of people/characters, and it's perfectly ok......UNTIL a white person dresses up as a black person. How does this "rule" make a speck of sense?
I'm curious about this ridiculous double standard myself...……..
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