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Blackface is never appropriate? Its a Costume on Halloween! Not a KKK meeting.
Dumb - maybe for a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader because she will have to explain to Jerry Jones now.
Offensive- only to the overly sensitive.
Tend to agree. She was dressing up as a specific celebrity. Friend of mine dressed up as Jimi Hendrix once. Wanted a challenging costume, not to demean anyone.
In any case, judging from her looks, I am sure Lilwayne, whoever he is, can forgive her.
My first reaction was to think the worst, but consider it was supposed to Lil' Wayne and the costume is pretty good, I don't consider it to be all that bad. In the sense of racism, not in taste. Although Lil' Wayne is one person that I doubt most blacks want to be represented by.
I was automatically thinking mammy when I saw the title.
Have we as a nation forgotten such lovely concepts as "intent" and "context?"
I am so tired of hearing arguments that "nobody can put on black face because of the history of minstrel shows?" Really?! BFD. When someone tries to bring BACK the minstrel show, THEN we'll deal with it as racist.
Unless the intent is to specifically MOCK an ethnic group, nobody should have a problem. Though I do know they sell "Indian," "Redneck," and "Drunk Mexican" costumes without problem at costume shops. A fashion spread showing a white model with her skin darkened in one of the photos was also recently decried as racist, when it was actually very artistically done. The sole act of putting on black face, or portraying a black person IS NOT and SHOULD NOT be considered "per se" racist, offensive (maybe to victimization pimps only), or problematic.
She was dressing as a celebrity musician/rap artist. It should not be offensive if that is part of the costume.
Add: She was there with her black friends and they did not seem to have a problem.
why do i have to educate people on here about these things, they may have not touched her friends because they were what, her friends but its not gonna sit well with others, me i would not allow it and if u did it and got into trouble i would not help you either.
white etc blackened faces have a history in the U.S its disrespect period
mistrel show i bet most of you dont know anything about them
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