Some USM girls dressed up like the Cosby kids. Now in hot water even though everybody admits there was no ill intent.<div>
</div><div>http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20111115/NEWS/111150334/Blackface-pic-draws-penalty</div><div>
</div><div>Also of note - any makeup at all that is meant to portray any black person is known as "blackface" (Michael Jackson costumes probably OK). Well, that's just a gross exaggeration of the truth. It is sad that political correctness has masked the distinction between racial mockery and a simple costume.</div><div>
</div><div>I think it speaks volumes that we live in an era when certain forms of racism (like blackface) are so antiquated that neither the "offender" nor the "offendee" understands that some kind of "offense" has beencommitted. Where's Al Sharpton? Hell even he probably missed the "offense" here.</div><div>
</div><div>For those that don't know:</div><div>
</div><div>This is blackface, which generations ago was a costume used to mock racial stereotypes of African Americans.</div><div>
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</div><div>And this is just 2 white people dressed up like black celebrities, Jay Z and Beyonce - which also caused some controversy in the eyes of...nobody other than some ****-stirrers:http://msn.foxsports.com/nhl/story/Phoenix-Coyotes-forward-Raffi-Torres-criticized-for-blackface-costume-103111</div><div>
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</div><div>http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20111115/NEWS/111150334/Blackface-pic-draws-penalty</div><div>
</div><div>Also of note - any makeup at all that is meant to portray any black person is known as "blackface" (Michael Jackson costumes probably OK). Well, that's just a gross exaggeration of the truth. It is sad that political correctness has masked the distinction between racial mockery and a simple costume.</div><div>
</div><div>I think it speaks volumes that we live in an era when certain forms of racism (like blackface) are so antiquated that neither the "offender" nor the "offendee" understands that some kind of "offense" has beencommitted. Where's Al Sharpton? Hell even he probably missed the "offense" here.</div><div>
</div><div>For those that don't know:</div><div>
</div><div>This is blackface, which generations ago was a costume used to mock racial stereotypes of African Americans.</div><div>
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</div><div>And this is just 2 white people dressed up like black celebrities, Jay Z and Beyonce - which also caused some controversy in the eyes of...nobody other than some ****-stirrers:http://msn.foxsports.com/nhl/story/Phoenix-Coyotes-forward-Raffi-Torres-criticized-for-blackface-costume-103111</div><div>
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