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The BBC won't show the Black & White Minstrel show...
The BBC won't show the Black & White Minstrel show...
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We were on about this today. Last week there were some white people in the stadium (nationality unknown) who had 'blacked' their faces and it was in the paper the next day and it was labeled racist. Last night there was those blacks with white painted faces and guess what, no mention whatsoever in the paper today
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Aunty Post • July 1, 2014 8:50 AM BST
If white people blacked their faces, they would be arrested for racism, and incitement to cause an affray! This might be the case in the UK , but it isn't the case in Ireland where nearly half the st Patrick day parades featured a guiness float with white men dressed up as sapeurs (from the ad) with blackened faces. |
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I am appalled - I will not be able to sleep tonight with the all the guilt!!
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The simple question you have to ask yourself is this:
If a Black man whites his face to imitate a White man would that be considered racist and would it offend White people , I think the answer to both is NO So the fact that Black people find White men who black their face to imitate Black people says more about the insecurity of the Black race than it does the racism of the White race. |
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at the end of the day what is 'forgotten' or conveniently passed over in all this PC revisionist history boll*cks is that it takes 2 to tango
their own tribal chiefs sold their own guys 2 the honkeys they didn't give 2 f*cks & don't 2 this very day look at the many uber rich african despots with nearly all their ppl scratching & starving & i would defy anyone 2 deny the incontrovertible fact that those descendants of slaves are not far better off than their 'brothers' that remained in Africa |
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moisok • July 1, 2014 11:34 PM BST
I am appalled - I will not be able to sleep tonight with the all the guilt!! |
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yuvutu, the nationality was not unknown.
They were German  |
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We await the arrival of wesdag the troll, who will be seething.
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Such a shame. Would be nice to see an Al Jolson film on TV but they're barred as well.
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call me a taxi 01 Jul 14 18:08
I can just see the reactions on the return trip when a bus load of black east London kids arrive in a quiet village in Devon for the day. In Ashburton they have a festival every year where the Morris dancers black up! I think there's a few in the West Country do that. |
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Not seen it on the BBC.
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With all the incredible technology today, could they not use a programme to re style their faces, or "ghost" them out?
No, what am I saying for Gawds sake? Just stick to the original plan! |
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Can't think of the B & W Minstrels without remembering my late wife's parents.
If they weren't sat there trilling away to that it was "Sing Something Simple" and my God was it ever? We took the p!$$ out out of them as "Simple" kind of summed it up. Defense always was "We like it don't we Esther". |
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The answer's quite simple really. Just play them in 'negative' mode! Loadsa white guys singing Swanee River.
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At least we've got youtube. What a great programme this was. Proper songs, propler singers not like the X Factor ****.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTXS9hx1Wzc |
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Can't think of the B & W Minstrels without remembering my late wife's parents.
If they weren't sat there trilling away to that it was "Sing Something Simple" and my God was it ever? We took the p!$$ out out of them as "Simple" kind of summed it up. Defense always was "We like it don't we Esther". lol Aunty, I bet they looked like Howard and Hilda from Ever Decreasing Circles. |
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My uncle Ernie blacks up his face every Saturday night and sings Al Jolson songs, in the local pub in Islington (North London)
And he always gos to he's firms fancy dress parties as a golliwog.but nobody says anything because his wife ( my auntie Repunzal) is black. And he works for Islington council ! |
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NO BUT THEY WILL SHOW YOU CLOSE UPS OF WOMEN HAVING BABIES FROM THEIR PRIVATE PARTS
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ITS ENOUGH TO PUT YOU OFF SEX FOR EVER
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THEY SHOULDNT EVEN SHOW THEM KIND OF THINGS ON THE ADULT CHANNEL
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ITS ENOUGH TO PUT YOU OFF YOUR JELLY AND CUSTARD
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I DONT WANT TO SEE A BABY COME OUT OF SOMEONES TATOOED VAGINA
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ESPECIALLY IN HIGH DEFINITION ,IM SURE I SAW ONE WOMANS TONSILLS IN THERE AS THEY DID A CLOSE UP
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THEM WOMEN WHO LET THEM BE PHOTOGRAPHED ARE JUST ATTENTION SEEKERS,IF THEY LET ANYONE WITH A CAMERA LOOK AT THEIR PRIVATE PARTS ,I WOULDNT LIKE TO THINK WHAT THEY GET UP TO
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MY MAMS NOT EVEN SEEN ME WITHOUT MY VEST ON
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THEM WOMEN SHOULD HAVE BEEN MADE TO SIT ON THE NAUGHTY STEP EVERY TIME THEY PUT THEIR LEGS IN THE AIR FROM A VERY EARLY AGE BY THEIR PARENTS
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ITS BAD ENOUGH LETTING A FEW STRANGERS LOOK AT YOUR PRIVATE PARTS IN THE WOODS ,BUT LETTING MILLIONS SEE THEM ON T V IS ANOTHER MATTER
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Do wah Diddy 24 Sep 14 13:25
MY MAMS NOT EVEN SEEN ME WITHOUT MY VEST ON |
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Do Wah, you are an absolute scream!
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2 stills from The Jazz Singer on BBC4 tonight. In one he was blacked up.
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I suppose the elephant in the room is that the slave trade was generally enabled by black Africans, cheerfully making a profit out of their vanquished tribal rivals. And the Arabs were more than happy to help both sides. Would most Afro-Americans/Brits be happier back in West Africa now?
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In the 1650s, Anthony Johnson, an African man, won a court case that let him keep another African, John Casor, as his slave instead of ending his indentured servitude.
This meant that the first legally recognized owner of a permanent slave in America, was an African man. |