08-29-2015, 07:33 PM
wow, one would be tarred and feathered if they tried that here.
i think naoimi campbell, whom may be black, used blackface for a video or holiday and she was so put down.
i know the USA has absolutely a zero tolerance policy for actors in "blackface" for any reason.
i am not even sure why. maybe its how the character is portrayed. The Irish were treated with great prejudice. Signs would say: dogs, jews and irish need not apply. sometimes blacks. and both my parents were born in harlem. one in the wealthiest part back then. one not.
so, I went out of my way to not fall into prejudice traps.
i am kinda surprised a whole country would still do this.
but, it is society whom should address this. not the gvt. just as they should allow us to put up a manger at christmas, a jewish star and chanukah stuff.
i wonder why the curly wig and red lips. that image reminds me of when i was trying to help put a guy whom worked with spin doctors thru rehab. to record. because he was the son of my mothers best friend. and, i turned around and he was wearing a wig, smooshed red lipstick, and red high heels. he looked exactly like his mother then. i could never shake that image.
nothing to do with the subject at hand. just a revolting memory I have. thanks for reminding me, Ice. kidding. just kidding.
and, i learned later, that a psychology experiment i did, showing children distorted faces, actually did really upset them. i felt like dog meat. it was psych 101. so, i know any deviation from the norm upsets a child in re: faces.
weird tradition. but, then again, me country believes in leprochauns. little people don't seem upset by that belief.
but, nowadays, it gets hard to always be politically correct.
(i should look up the portrayal to really comment. but, it would sadden me, I suspect.)
we have a thread here, or in our last weeks over there, "Why can't we all get along?"
I like that idea. And, mocking another, is not really playing well with others.
Eddie Izzard, the UK comic always said the Amsterdam peoples can speak four or five languages. And, smoke dope. So, if they are so smart and so civilized, why do they mock another race?
I guess it goes back to when it started. Someone somewhere found it Christmasy? huh?
i think naoimi campbell, whom may be black, used blackface for a video or holiday and she was so put down.
i know the USA has absolutely a zero tolerance policy for actors in "blackface" for any reason.
i am not even sure why. maybe its how the character is portrayed. The Irish were treated with great prejudice. Signs would say: dogs, jews and irish need not apply. sometimes blacks. and both my parents were born in harlem. one in the wealthiest part back then. one not.
so, I went out of my way to not fall into prejudice traps.
i am kinda surprised a whole country would still do this.
but, it is society whom should address this. not the gvt. just as they should allow us to put up a manger at christmas, a jewish star and chanukah stuff.
i wonder why the curly wig and red lips. that image reminds me of when i was trying to help put a guy whom worked with spin doctors thru rehab. to record. because he was the son of my mothers best friend. and, i turned around and he was wearing a wig, smooshed red lipstick, and red high heels. he looked exactly like his mother then. i could never shake that image.
nothing to do with the subject at hand. just a revolting memory I have. thanks for reminding me, Ice. kidding. just kidding.
and, i learned later, that a psychology experiment i did, showing children distorted faces, actually did really upset them. i felt like dog meat. it was psych 101. so, i know any deviation from the norm upsets a child in re: faces.
weird tradition. but, then again, me country believes in leprochauns. little people don't seem upset by that belief.
but, nowadays, it gets hard to always be politically correct.
(i should look up the portrayal to really comment. but, it would sadden me, I suspect.)
we have a thread here, or in our last weeks over there, "Why can't we all get along?"
I like that idea. And, mocking another, is not really playing well with others.
Eddie Izzard, the UK comic always said the Amsterdam peoples can speak four or five languages. And, smoke dope. So, if they are so smart and so civilized, why do they mock another race?
I guess it goes back to when it started. Someone somewhere found it Christmasy? huh?
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