When this came across my FB news feed it had 15 likes and 10 comments all saying how great of a costume it was. I was the only person who said anything negative about it, and by the time I unfriended her it had something like 26 likes.
Blackface is never ok and this costume is racist.
As for the screenshots of the comments, these are two of the links that those ignorant fools post:
Bing Crosby singing “Abraham” in blackface
I debated about putting this photo up on my blog simply because I’m hoping that the girl (and the guy - but I have no idea who he is) in question realizes that she was wrong. She never defended herself in the thread so I remain hopeful that she won’t ever do this again. The guys who end up defending her are so offensive, though. I know I posted their comments before but I wanted to post them again with the photo to show the context.
Oh, and what you don’t see in these screen shots? All their comments were ‘liked’ by people.While I know the girl in this photo never meant to be racist, that she supports Obama, and meant this as a funny round-about-compliment, she still looks stupid and she is still being racist. That’s why I decided to post this. I hope people who are thinking they might dress up in blackface as Obama (or whoever) because “he’s so cool” or “look at how much I love him” will see this and think twice. Just don’t do blackface. It’s as simple as that.
I posted a link to this article earlier, but I’ll post it again. It’s a good discussion on why blackface is never ever ok.
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excellent commentary. i didn’t even realize it was blackface until i read the comments.
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