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

the Cleveland Browns

okay lol

xxpost don't get me started on the Indian nicknames thing. sports fans are ironically the ones who are hypersensitive about that shit -- and they'll always cite things like "a recent poll says 51% of Indians don't even give a shit!" or "THEY SHOULD FEEL HONORED".

and in the end it isn't even about taste, it's about $$$$. for instance, if you are Western Bolivia Kentucky Charleston State in a Division 8 school and you have an Indian nickname, the NCAA gets on your ass about it, and you change it, cuz you don't have the means to fight it.

meanwhile, when FSU is asked to change theirs a few years ago, because of how big the program is, JEB BUSH gets involved to reverse the order.

i think most things involving dogs in costumes are kind of OK.

xpost

the parody posters are funny if you don't know they're parodies of something

any d00d who says the "Indians should be proud" of how they're depicted in the sports world should be forced to own a team called the Washington Paisans, with the mascot being a buncha Joey Buttafuoco looking motherfucker running around the field in a wife beaterss.

there's actually no way to turn that one around

buncha beaterss

My high school AND college had "Indian honoring" nicknames that were changed. There are "Once a _____, always a _____" Facebook groups for both. You can purchase shirts -- stand up to the gross injustice.

any d00d who says the "Indians should be proud" of how they're depicted in the sports world should be forced to own a team called the Washington Paisans, with the mascot being a buncha Joey Buttafuoco looking motherfucker running around the field in a wife beaterss.

― Neanderthal, Monday, October 31, 2011 7:16 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

godfather's pizza anyone?

"Song of the South is a classic, it ain't racist ah tell ya"

can someone explain the lebron one to me, idgi

It's a double caricature.

The Indians logo

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http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTiryYNuIKiJYbLoh8fupEUKj55NAEVZvi9uCm5Cp1j4c76AEmGfQ

i don't follow sports at all, so my mind is blown that that shirt immediately registers as "lebron" to people

Me too. I took it as being the regular Cleveland Indians mascot; now I see the Cavs headband and the earring. Here's the actual logo for comparison:
http://www.hanksville.org/sand/stereotypes/images/chiefwahoo.gif
And what the fuck, his name is "Chief Wahoo."

I had a pretty fascinating conversation with an indian guy that I know (who's an ex-marine and cultural studies phd student) about how he's a big Redskins fan. He picked them as his NFL team while growing up even though he lived in the PNW because the logo was the only thing he saw in the media that looked like people he knew. I expected he'd go off about them but his view on was much funnier and complicated than I imagined it would be.

He did say that when he's gone to see them play once or twice he tucked in his braids because he didn't want to give any ammo to the racists who could point to him as supporting their cause.

pardon my ignorance but are geisha costumes offensive?

http://threadbombing.com/data/media/2/popcorn.gif

Verb!

pertinent article

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/nov/10/racist-redskins/

Give us Clevelanders some credit, the logo used to look like this:

http://cf.juggle-images.com/fill-crop-mid/white/200x150/wg-cleveland-indians-4.jpg

The team and its fans still often point to a 2004 survey by the Annenberg Center, which found that by a margin of nine to one, American Indians took no offense at the name Redskins.2 They have bigger problems to worry about. I admit to a mild curiosity about whether they’d feel differently if they knew the name was dreamed up by the sport’s most overtly racist figure, who even in his will (he died in 1969) stipulated that the Redskins Foundation that was to be created with most of his estate not direct a single dollar toward “any purpose which supports or employs the principle of racial integration in any form.”

I admit to a mild curiosity about whether they’d feel differently if they knew the name was dreamed up by the sport’s most overtly racist figure, who even in his will (he died in 1969) stipulated that the Redskins Foundation that was to be created with most of his estate not direct a single dollar toward “any purpose which supports or employs the principle of racial integration in any form.”

That is one hell of a sentence.

It doesn't scan perfectly, but I've started to read this thread title to the tune of "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress".

http://www.halloweencostumes.com/blog/post/2011/09/20/how-to-make-a-lil-wayne-costume-or-how-to-have-swagger.aspx

OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE. ANDRE AGASSI????

http://deadspin.com/5855305/andre-agassi-is-mr-t

hoo boy

I mean, points for actually making an effort re: the rest of the costume but the skin tone is a massive "DON'T DO THAT"

feel like there should be some blackface pool 2012 or something, this shit is getting absurd

andre agassi is mr t. at a church potluck

Walk Off HBP
Tue 01 Nov 2011 3:25 PM

Standing ovation to Michael Chang's costume as 80's elementary school dork.

shamefully, I lolled

http://gawker.com/5859449/

The [University of Southern Mississippi] Dean of Students Office said the six women, all members of Phi Mu sorority, dressed in blackface to depict themselves as the Huxtable family from 'The Cosby Show,' as part of their participation in a 1980s-themed, off-campus costume party on Wednesday.

retromania

irl lols

Fashion's Elite Got Good and Blackfaced at a Party in Milan Last Night

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/194j17ahxwfyejpg/ku-xlarge.jpg

The first sentence says nearly everything you need to know for context: Milan's annual Halloweek masquerade party took place last night, and the theme was Disco Africa.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/george-zimmerman-trayvon-martin-costumes-backfire-article-1.1498693

yeah, don't do that.

Christ almighty.

I came to post about this starlet I've never heard of wearing blackface for Halloween as "Crazy Eyes" from OITNB (http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/2013/10/julianne-hough-apologizes-for-donning-blackface/) but that Trayvon Marin costume is so reprehensible and the dude is so unrepentant.

Do these people not have a single not racist (or even slightly less racist) friend? Somebody who might say, "Hey, you know what, that is racist as hell. Don't do that"? Fellow white people, I beg you, if you have a friend who wants to dress up like this, stop them.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/tracyclayton/14-times-people-dressed-as-people-of-other-races-for-hallowe

http://sfist.com/2013/10/28/fake_asiana_airlines_pilots_become.php

My friend's daughter wants to dress up as the TV character Luther for Halloween. He explained that this is not allowed and she is bummed.

As someone who would (instinctively) not dress up in blackface, I really want to know what goes through the minds of people who do.

My friend's daughter wants to dress up as the TV character Luther for Halloween. He explained that this is not allowed and she is bummed.

― polyphonic, Tuesday, October 29, 2013 5:10 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

i feel that as long as there's no facepaint, fake wigs etc. involved, should be okay. yeah?

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/10/02/arts/02LUTHER1/02Luther1-articleLarge.jpg

not impossible to do without blackface, he's wearing practically the same outfit in every image on google, and honestly even with blackface it's not like it'd be any more obvious, she'd still have to explain to everyone who she is

don't think anyone really has a problem with dressing up as a character of a different race as long as that race isn't part of the costume, every character wears costumes

xp!

If a white teenaged girl was wearing those clothes would you say "nice Luther costume"?

if she was wearing those clothes in blackface i'd still have to be told what it is (and i've watched luther)

what the fuck is Luther

Luther is a British psychological crime drama television series starring Idris Elba as the title character Detective Chief Inspector John Luther.

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