Aituk7
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This was my thinking.
How can you make it obvious who you are without actually blacking up.
It's a tough one like.
Dressing up as the Fresh Prince of Bel Air
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How can you make it obvious who you are without actually blacking up.
It's a tough one like.
Keawyeds
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Man alive... WTF is wrong with people?! It's fake tan! Unless she went from pasty white to dark brown over night where's the harm?
I'm not sure what on earth to say about the Bruce Lee bit. That's just odd
It's only acceptable for Sol to be white-faced
This shit is getting ridiculous now.
Generating racism rather than preventing it.
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This shit is getting ridiculous now.
Generating racism rather than preventing it.
Aituk7
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It was briliant tbh. He looked just like him
He was yellow?
wtf
Wildfire
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I went to a fancy dress party as Will Smith, I wore a black suit and tie and cut a picture of him out of a magazine and stuck it to some cardboard to make a mask. I also had some ray guns that were confiscated by the doormen at Privilege. If I had just painted my face black I don’t really look much like Will Smith so it probably wouldn’t have worked, plus the paint makes a right mess everywhere.
Nobody accused me of racism or cultural appropriation but this was 2002 so might be different now.
Nobody accused me of racism or cultural appropriation but this was 2002 so might be different now.
Aituk7
Striker
Hopefully in the future it will be acceptable as long as it's done in the spirit of being an actual person and not just making fun of a race in general.We went on a fancy dress pub crawl at uni and the theme was you paired up with a mate and had to dress as an exaggerated version of them.
The awkward silence when one of the lads emerged from his flat blacked up because his partner was black was palpable
Was fine in the end like. I think people hadn’t even considered the likely outcome of that interracial pairing which was why people were a bit stunned
It's obviously tarred from its deeply racist past
I dunno, he certainly wasn't black, he put a tanning product on I think that changed his tint to similar to an oriental asian colour.He was yellow?
Keawyeds
Striker
I don't see anything wrong with that. Although it does beg the question, why didn't you go as Tommy Lee Jones?
PTR
Striker
Obviously its not on to black up
Having the discussion the other day when it was suggested and there is absolutely no way you would be recognisable as him without blacking up would you?
But its also not on that white people cannot wear a costume for a black person
Hmmmm.
SAFC Wilks
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Arrrrwhhhhhh here it goes
Aituk7
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Different guy mate
SAFC Wilks
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Aituk7
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Black Cat Gypsy
Striker
Dress up like Carlton instead.
Wildfire
Full Back
thinking about it for the first time in 15 years it might have been a sly form of blackface?
Banks
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1 do it and risk offending somebody
2 do it and justify it by explaining a thousand different way why it shouldn’t offend anybody blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
3 do it with the deliberate intention of offending and additionally winding people up.
4 don’t bother. Life’s too short
The choice is yours
2 do it and justify it by explaining a thousand different way why it shouldn’t offend anybody blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
3 do it with the deliberate intention of offending and additionally winding people up.
4 don’t bother. Life’s too short
The choice is yours
jjarra_mackem
Winger
5) pick another costume
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I though that was implied by 4.
It might be difficult though because the options are limited to only a few million other choices.
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