Yes. So you evil bastards are discriminating against me. One the one hand (the one with 5 fingers) you buy me drinks in the Earl giving it the large one... and on the other hand (the 5 fingers and a stump) you slag me off for being a dirty feral Mackem. Marra.
Those are not really mustard chinos you know. The terrible truth is that ACS is walking around naked from the waist down. His skin is actually mustard yellow and don’t even ask me to explain where his you know what’s are!
My son-in-law is black, my two grandkids are 'mixed'. As if I actually needed to know, the three of them are just plain, ordinary, normal, middle-of-the-road human beings. The same as the rest of us.
I've just joined the Melton Mowbray arm of the KKK because my missus has just had a cataract operation so I'm having to do the washing. Need to know how they get their sheets so white.
Three young idiots walking down Northumberland Street in Newcastle a few years ago and one of them called my son-in-law a monkey ffs. So my daughter punched the little ****.
Some things have been done with racist intentions so often that it comes across as racist even if the person doing the act has no racist intention. A white person, especially in the US, calling a black man "boy" for example. Sometimes it means nothing more than what we mean when we call a man "lad" but in that context it can't come across as anything but racist. Blacking up is pretty much the same. You might only want to look as much as possible like someone you admire but too many assholes have done it for the wrong reasons for it to be seen as anything but racist. Hopefully in time that will change but for now, if you're sensible, don't black up or call black men "boy". And good on your daughter
Black people do occasionally have a laugh at themselves over their own skin colour. At a recent party for my son-in-law, his Angolan mates were pissing themselves with laughter because someone had taken a photo of them in dodgy lighting and none of their faces could be seen properly. They were falling over themselves in laughter. And my son-in-law pointed out that after having been to mexico on holiday, he had tanned (yes, some black people do tan) that much that you couldn't see the sunglasses he was wearing. All innocent and harmless fun given that it was pointed out by themselves. Its all about context.
To be fair I think it was an 80's party and he was dressing up as a Harlem Globetrotter. Harlem is an area with a largely African American demographic. I don't know the stats but I would imagine 90% plus of Harlem Globetrotters have been black. Lou Dunbar was probably the Globetrotter who was arguably one of most famous in the 80's, when the Globetrotters were also arguably at their peak in terms of commercial interest. Hence you get a lot of Globetrotters fancy outfits online which come equipped with an afro. Largely with the rather crass 69 number thrown in. Harlem Globetrotters were everywhere in the 80s and the Afro was a popular do in the late 70s/early 80s. So I can kinda see why the Globetrotters in the 80s would result in a black man and afro. Indeed if a black person dressed up like that for an 80s party I wouldn't think twice. I didn't find it at all offensive but I can understand why some would. The reality is blacking up is something which causes offence to many black people and also white people who feel offended for black people. Sadly the historical significance of blacking up, and also historically how they've been persecuted as a race, has meant it is at best clumsy to black up at this point in time. Perhaps at some point in the future when equality rules and is properly embedded in our world, people will no longer find this offensive and consign it to a thinking of the past. For now I reckon its safer to avoid the whole blacking up idea. Innocent intentions for sure on both peoples part, but its only gone stir up a hornets nest.
I remember Al Jolson seeking medical help for stress after years of blacking up. He was told it was pre minstrel tension.
Chaps and chapesses.... Watch this. Pefectly sums up how much folk can go OTT.... Great comedy BTW...
I'm confused by all of this. First it was 'coloured', then it was 'blacks' now it's 'people of colour'. Which is odd as my artist friends tell me that black is the absence of colour whereas white is the conglomeration of all the colours. So, logically, whites should be the 'people of colour' and blacks the 'non-coloured'. Pete Townsend, in my view, has said few things worth of note. Except for one worth repeating, "We're all coloured. We'd look ****ing stupid with transparent skin". The biggest racists I have found are those who bang on about people coming from abroad to live here when they should bloody well go home. Just as they're packing their bags to go to stay in their winter homes in Spain.
