Blackface

Dude haven't you ever noticed how large the inside of a pitted olive is? Olives are like mangoes.

Id bash him too, but only because its a stupid costume idea, not because he is wearing light make-up

So if i let my backyard olive tree get picked by my greek gardener is that racist?

Or only if i keep calling him Mario no matter what his real name would be?

Yeah it is the movie used as the first 'talkie' but there were movies before it that already had synchronized sound, but only for singing/musical numbers, There were some voice recordings but in short films, not feature films. Even in The Jazz Singer there are very few recorded dialogues and they happen mostly before or after the musical numbers (wikipedia says about 2 min of dialogue, all the rest using the usual silent movie techniques of caption cards and intertitles). The fact that the first non-sung line was "Wait a minute, wait a minute you ain't heard nothing yet" also helped setting the film as the starting point of 'talkies'. In fact, I am not even sure what is the first feature film to use synchronized sound for all of its dialogues (some wiki-fu resulted inLights of New York (1928)).

My friend blackfaced for Halloween as Eddie Murphy delirious, with dat red leather. I was showing my coworkers and a black RN still refuses to talk to me. Said we should be ashamed and left shaking and crying.

I can only assume she was more of a Richard Pryor fan.

I don't get the blackface rage. Would white-facing Eddie Murphy really be less offensive? Let's not forget that Eddie white-faced on multiple occasions, and it was hilarious.

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Black Pete: Documentary shows how Londoners, including Russell Brand, respond to ??~racist??T Christmas tradition - Europe - World - The Independent

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This dutch tradition is all kind of weird and indeed racist, but I find it very funny that their Santa is from Spain.

In the same kind of idea, there is the biblical magi Balthazar who is often played by caucasians wearing black make-up for events and ceremonies. It's a little different though since, unlike the dutch Santa's helpers, there is no racial stereotypes with Balthazar, the different ethnicity of the magi are only there to say they came from all around the world (and it's a later and western addition to the tradition).

How can people get enraged over black face when we allowedWhite Girlsto be produced.