Wait ... That was racist?

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

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.

"I don't think it was offensive at all," said Chelsea House, who earned her high school diploma from Waverly last year and moved to Alabama but returned for homecoming last week and saw the skit.
"There's nothing wrong with blackface. There's nothing wrong with dressing up as a black person. Black is but a color," House said.
Waverly Central School District Superintendent Joseph Yelich said Tuesday that he did not believe the students in the skit intended to offend anyone.
Waverly resident Thomas Rumpff, a 2007 graduate of the high school, said he believed most of the kids were unaware of the historical context of blackface, a form of theatrical makeup used by white people in minstrel shows that perpetuated racist stereotypes of African-Americans.
Rumpff said the Rihanna incident had also been satirized online and on television before.
"Was this a little bit inappropriate? Yes," he said. But said the incident "has been completely blown out of proportion."

 

[Dick Whitman]

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.

 

[TigerVols]

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.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Also has no idea she's a racist:

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

 

[expendable]

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

 

[cyclingwriter]

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.

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.

 

[zagoshe]

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.

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.

 

[Uncle.Ruckus]

Oriental?

 

[zagoshe]

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.

 

[Bob Cook]

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

 

[zagoshe]

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

 

[Iron_chet]

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.

 

[Killick]

You want embarrassing? My dear, sweet grandma - who I'd never heard utter a word even resembling racism - once went to a Halloween party in blackface, a grass skirt, necklace and other item made from chicken bones, and a fake bone in her nose. I had forgotten about it. I was maybe 6-7 at the time. Stumbled across a photo a few years ago.

Oh, Grandma. What were you thinking?

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

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

In fairness, last year's skit was a woman beating a man. So I think that evens out.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

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.

"Oriental" is the term for inanimate objects.

Rugs are Oriental.

People are Asian.

 

[Drip]

If you have to question whether its racist or not, it probably is.

 

[heyabbott]

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.

"I don't think it was offensive at all," said Chelsea House, who earned her high school diploma from Waverly last year and moved to Alabama but returned for homecoming last week and saw the skit.
"There's nothing wrong with blackface. There's nothing wrong with dressing up as a black person. Black is but a color," House said.
Waverly Central School District Superintendent Joseph Yelich said Tuesday that he did not believe the students in the skit intended to offend anyone.
Waverly resident Thomas Rumpff, a 2007 graduate of the high school, said he believed most of the kids were unaware of the historical context of blackface, a form of theatrical makeup used by white people in minstrel shows that perpetuated racist stereotypes of African-Americans.
Rumpff said the Rihanna incident had also been satirized online and on television before.
"Was this a little bit inappropriate? Yes," he said. But said the incident "has been completely blown out of proportion."

This is so much worse than the beatdown the ***** got.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

My favorite defense so far came from the high school girl who insisted it wasn't even blackface -- it was just stage makeup they put on to appear black.

 

[Dick Whitman]

You want embarrassing? My dear, sweet grandma - who I'd never heard utter a word even resembling racism - once went to a Halloween party in blackface, a grass skirt, necklace and other item made from chicken bones, and a fake bone in her nose. I had forgotten about it. I was maybe 6-7 at the time. Stumbled across a photo a few years ago.

Oh, Grandma. What were you thinking?

No worries.

Zag says it's all good in the hood.

Wait until he sees my costume this year.

 

[Dick Whitman]

And my son's.