White trick-or-treaters in blackface: C/D?

Are the Birmingham Black Barons playing in a new stadium with their cut?

I really doubt that New Era has put all of their profits from Negro Leagues merchandise into the pockets of the children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of Negro Leagues vets. I could see a few museum displays, perhaps.

(I WOULD REALLY LIKE SOMEONE TO PROVE ME WRONG HERE.)

xpost yeah no, I know you wouldn't have an issue with that, I have no fucking clue what Andy is on about.

ok NOW you're stretching

What about a FUBU shirt?

maybe you should have compared blacking up with dressing up as a ghost, and it would have made it more clear.

Jesus god, Dan & Ally Oll Korrect here.

You haven't explained how a kid dressing up as his favorite athlete is racism in any way, still. Besides making a really tenuous complete-lack-of-perspective comparison to actual racists pretending to be blacks and doing minstrel shows. Which, like I said, is kind of a disservice to any kind of civil rights/anti-racism cause. This is the kind of bullshit that gets people mired into ridiculous arguments because, you know what, no, most Americans would not find a kid doing this inexcusable. He's NOT dressed up as Hitler. He's NOT dressed up as, say, OJ Simpson.

Haha I am Duran Duran.

if you draw this conclusion from a kid who dressed up as a sports person who happens to be black. then perhaps YOU are the one who is stereotyping???

It's on the same level as when my high-school cafeteria, to celebrate Black History Month, served fried chicken and greens.

we aren't talking about some fucking douchebag with shoe polish on his face and bright red lipstick and white out around his eyes waving around a bucket of goddamn chicken, you're talking about a kid, probably under the age of 12, wearing a basketball jersey and some darker-colored foundation! You don't see at all how the reaction this is garnering from a couple of you is a little off?

Like I said, I can understand being like wtf, or saying something to the kid like "Some people might find that offensive," I mean I really wouldn't want my kid doing that just because of that, but this level of outrage? Comparing it to Hitler and rape? Jesus christ.

I gotta say, ken OTM.

http://www.papalazarou.co.uk/pd/images/postcard3.jpg

wtf?

Reeves & Mortimer blacking up to play Otis Redding and Marvin Gaye with Geordie accents, WAS deemed offensive by some though (they then had to do the act minus paint).

http://www.manmademultimedia.com/magazine/news/ent/2004/2/All_Star.jpgs/Ben_Wallace.jpg

I mean how do you wear a Ben Wallace costume without at least doing the hair--which was already labelled as being "uncomfortable" when white people don the 'fro wigs. WTF, I mean a kid walking around with just a Ben Wallace jersey on and nothing else to signify, "I am Ben Wallace," that's a lame ass costume. I wouldn't give that kid a 3 Musketeers, that's for sure.

I mean, I'm not saying that he should've necessarily gone the whole hog with it (I mean I am the person who already said WTF, Ben Wallace?) but I mean how do the two of you recommend someone do a Ben Wallace costume without putting on ANYTHING that might be offensive to you?

Or do white people have to dress as white people, blacks as blacks, men as men, women as women, etc etc etc? I don't see anything wrong with a totally innocent Halloween costume.

xpost no one is pretending anything, we're telling you you are overreacting HARDCORE.

the point SHOULD be that we are all people and therefore should get treated the same.

which can be used to excuse a lot of foul, racist shit

Can I echo that?

This I can understand more than the Halloween costume thing...I mean why not just hire black comedians? Saturday Night Live does this as well and I'm not that fond of it, especially since the guy they always "black up" is such an awful unfunny douchebag whose impressions are all crap. I mean seriously just hire some more black comedians, people.

there have never been that many good ones in the UK [/'racist']

i can

xpost no I mean that one dude, the one who sometimes does Bill Clinton, who is that guy? Whatever he is, he's crap.

xxpost ETHAN NO ONE IS SAYING THAT, WE'RE SAYING THAT YOU ARE OVERREACTING, IS THIS QUESTIONABLE? YES. IS THIS "INEXCUSABLE"? NO, IT'S A KID DRESSING UP AS HIS HERO. SHOULD HIS PARENTS HAVE SAID SOMETHING ABOUT THIS? PROBABLY, THEY SHOULD'VE ASKED HIM TO NOT DRESS UP AS BEN WALLACE. THE CONCLUSIONS YOU ARE DRAWING FROM THIS EVENT AND PEOPLE SAYING "LISTEN IT'S NOT AS BAD AS THAT" ARE REALLY KIND OF CRAZY. ALSO YOU ARE WHITE. ALSO YOU ARE TEAMING UP WITH A DUDE WHO IS BOTHERED BY PEOPLE WHO WEAR NEGRO LEAGUE HATS AND AFROS ON HALLOWEEN WHICH KIND OF PROBABLY MAKES YOUR ARGUMENT LOOK MORE CRAP.

posted in caps cos I don't think you are getting it that we're just saying "You are overreacting."

xpost i am not "teaming up" with dude, but i agree about afro wigs on halloween as stated above