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On Tuesday, as the Mummers Parade festivities were moving from your television screen to drunken celebrations down on Two Street, a scandal began unfolding involving a local Mummers troupe and its purported use of blackface. Except — says the performer being accused — there was no blackface. The skit in question came to us courtesy of Finnegan New Years Brigade Comic Club, which previously ran afoul of public opinion with a 2016 routine making fun of Caitlyn Jenner.

AS A KID growing up on 2nd Street in South Philly, Ian Morrison enjoyed the spectacle of the wild post-New Year's Day Parade celebrations that unfurled in his tight-knit neighborhood. But what he looked forward to the most was the day after the parade. "We'd steal everything the brigades threw out, the makeup and the costumes," laughed Morrison, 39, dressed from head to toe yesterday as his makeup-heavy drag-queen alter ego, Brittany Lynn. Morrison, City Councilmen Jim Kenney and Mark Squilla, and several members of the LGBT "Miss Fancy" Brigade gathered at the Mummers Museum, at 2nd Street and Washington...