Greenjp wrote:
Context & intent....So is it OK for a costume party to dress up as a ethnic person if you don't change your skin color? If I dressed like Bob Marley, hair, clothes and accent that's fine but to darken my skin for the full effect I'm a racist? Am I mocking the man or paying him a tribute? Does that even matter to some ppl.....Context & intent. It won't be long before a white guy will be called a racist for wearing a hoodie.
Um no wearing ethnic costumes has for decades been bad
Even local schools ban things like Pocohontas / Indians, India / Indians, etc
Most kids are not stupid enough to wear blackface for the social and physical beatings that would be administered by other students
Hopefully hoodie is not code for KKK but otherwise why else would it be racially insensitive?
Halton Home Inspector wrote:
Trudeau said - "I'm sorry I did it but now WE know better".
The revelation by Time Magazine this week that Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau appeared in brownface when he was 29 years old at the school where he was, perhaps appropriately, a drama teacher, and another incident in which he sang the Banana Boat song in blackface, has ricocheted around the world with predictable consternation at home and disbelief and mockery abroad.
There have been predictions aplenty that Trudeau’s already deeply troubled goal of winning a seat on the UN Security Council is dead. After all, 54 of the 193 UN votes for that coveted Security Council position are held by African nations with another 13 votes coming from the Caribbean.
There was, of course, the cringe-worthy song and dance routine that Trudeau performed in India in February 2018, where he used his wife, Sophie, and their children as props, and for some reason felt it necessary to bring along an Indian chef from Vancouver to feed his hosts in India. Rather lost in that frenzy, the Modi government was actually far more upset over Team Trudeau twice inviting a convicted Sikh terrorist to public events with the Canadian prime minister in India and his tolerance of what Delhi considered to be pro-Khalistan Sikhs in his entourage.