Wait ... That was racist?

http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/16/us/new-york-blackface-skit/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

Students in blackface reenacting Chris Brown beating of Rihanna fail to see anything wrong with the skit.
Part of the explanation? No one raised any eyebrows when they reenacted the Tiger Woods golf club beating the year before.

 

When I was about 7, I dressed up as Stevie Wonder for Halloween. With black face.

I was horrified to see the photo recently.

I was even more horrified that, to this day, my mother could not fathom that this was inappropriate or racist.

 

I'm more horrified that a 7 year old would want to dress up as Steve Wonder. Weird.

 

Also has no idea she's a racist:

http://beforeandafro.com/2012/10/12/frod-chicken/

 

Nope. This happened in New York. Racist things only happen in the south.

 

A buddy of mine did the same thing with Doc Gooden in the mid-1980s...the movie Soul Man brought out the worst in kids of that era.

 

It wasn't racist, you were dressing up as an American music star whose face happens to be black. Just like it would not have been racist is, say he was an oriental singer, you made your face yellow in tone or an American Indian singer, you made your face red in tone.

It was a costume, nothing more, nothing less.

 

Oriental?

 

Persons from the Orient. That is the politically correct term these days for those people or has it changed?

I can't keep up.

 

Beyond the racism, I wonder who thought a sketch about beating women would be high-larious. Did Seth MacFarlane write this?

 

That is actually a very good point

 

I remember my friend's mother dressing him as a "Chinaman" for Halloween complete with a nylon on his head to approximate slanted eyes. I somehow doubt this would happen today.