Oh please of Trump dressed up as a black guy for Halloween the entire left wing would shit themselves.
Why would they do that? Do you have proof?
UW-Stout students upset over blackface Halloween costume
Blackface” is a racist means of perpetuating stereotypes and misappropriations under the guise of entertainment.
Blackface Halloween: A Toxic Cultural Tradition
It’s already started this year, with the white elementary school teacher who dressed up as Kanye West. And the Florida teenager who thought it was a good idea to cover herself in shoe polish to pull off an authentic Nicki Minaj.
There's just two examples of liberal outrage over blackface.
Guess it's okay when someone that shares your demented PC views does it
That's got nothing to do with "Liberal". And you don't make it so by writing a message board post and inserting the word "liberal" in it. Without being there it's difficult to make the judgment as to whether the actors in question were using their skin-tone costuming as mocking that skin tone, or simply as a vehicle to express the part. There's a distinct difference.
When I walked Frenchman Street as Ernie K-Doe, no one-- not a single person anywhere, white or black, younger or older -- expressed the slightest degree of offense. Nor was it expected. Now if I had walked around invoking weird racial stereotypes using my skin tone as a vehicle to express
that, there should have been offense, and I would have expected it, But that wasn't the point, and I made no such attempts, not even to sing, and besides I knew Ernie (everybody in New Orleans knew Ernie during his life, he made sure of that), and it would have been out of his character and therefore pointless to the costume. No, the entire point was in the costume itself, I just stood around and conversed in my normal voice, and no one who already knew me figured out who I was until I told them. It was that good.
If I deviated from my normal voice at all, it would have been to lampoon Ernie's actual voice and expressions, presuming ones that would be known to the other person. That would be a reference to his
individual character -- not his race per se -- that is, aspects that make him Ernie, not aspects that make him black. My hair wasn't real either, for the same reason -- to express the
character. Ernie's hair was somewhat distinctive, and did not resemble my own.
Would simply going out in an Afro wig (alone) be considered "racist"? It could be used as a
vehicle for that ("hey look, I'm a black guy and I'm going to express ____ ") but the racism would be in the
context.
The visual by itself makes no statement.
Anyone see the contemporary remake of The Lone Ranger with Johnny Depp playing Tonto in redface? Again, it was a costuming vehicle only, the color of his skin had nothing to do with anything negative expressed by the character -- in other words the skin color was
not being lampooned for its own sake, but simply as a costume vehicle to identify the character. Did that come off as "racist"? I don't think so.
(Now, that's a movie, not a Hallowe'en costume, and the argument can and should be made, why not hire an actual Native American actor to play the part, and I already made that argument myself. But that doesn't make Depp's performance "racist". Compare this to any number of Westerns of the 1950s where very-obviously white guy actors were hired to play the "Indians" and all they bothered to do was give them a headdress and a tomahawk. Hardly convincing. Which is worse?)
It all depends on CONTEXT. If you're using blackface, yellowface, redface etc. as a vehicle to
put down that race, then yes, you have racism. Minstrel shows of 100-150 years ago certainly did that, as did the content of many of the songs written for them. But simply to express the image, in and of itself, doesn't express a "racism" any more than to identify a person as a "black guy" does.
Wasn't there some "controversy" -- I use the term very loosely -- about some 'black actor or comic book figure recently, where the role was traditionally considered "white"? Seems to me the same kind of fake outrage, obsessing over what color somebody's skin is rather than the context of what he's expressing.
And this thread does the same thing --- obsesses over superficialities, ignoring the context. What is the context in the case of the OP subject? We don't know, but the OP doesn't bother to wait to find out --- he just takes off with his own ass-umptions, since those superficialities, and not contextual meanings, seems to be all he's interested in to make fake points made of hot air.
An interesting discussion on all this is found in a sublink from one of Hortysir's links:
Opera's Old Fashioned Race Problem
