Where was that? We didn't do anything. Hippies were out of style, largely (but heavily celebrating themselves in media). And we had Reagan.
As for what I think of all this?
LIGHTEN UP, FRANCIS!
Posted on 02/13/2019 7:59:29 PM PST by yesthatjallen
At the time Virginia’s future political leaders put on blackface in college for fun, Dan Aykroyd wore it too — in the hit 1983 comedy “Trading Places.”
Sports announcers of that time often described Boston Celtics player Larry Bird, who is white, as “smart” while describing his black NBA opponents as athletically gifted.
Such racial insensitivities ran rampant in popular culture during the 1980s, the era in which Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam and the state’s attorney general, Mark Herring, have admitted to wearing blackface as they mimicked pop singer Michael Jackson and rapper Kurtis Blow, respectively.
Meanwhile, Chicago elected its first black mayor, Michael Jackson made music history with his “Thriller” album, U.S. college students protested against South Africa’s racist system of apartheid and the stereotype-smashing sitcom “The Cosby Show” debuted on network television.
It would be another 10 years before the rise of multiculturalism began to change America’s racial sensibilities, in part because intellectuals and journalists of color were better positioned to successfully challenge racist images, and Hollywood began to listen.
“We are in a stronger position to educate the American public about symbols and cultural practices that are harmful today than we were in the 1980s,” said Henry Louis Gates Jr., director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University.
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Where was that? We didn't do anything. Hippies were out of style, largely (but heavily celebrating themselves in media). And we had Reagan.
As for what I think of all this?
LIGHTEN UP, FRANCIS!
Every non-black kid with his pants down round his knees, his filthy hair in dreds, unable to speak clearly while listening to his rap music is the new “black face”.
When I see AP as the source, I immediately know it is agenda journalism. Never let the truth get in the way of the agenda.
I agree with Megyn Kelly, what’s the big deal? Heck, Michael Jackson turned himself into a sorta-white guy and it doesn’t bother me a bit that he appropriated my skin color.
My God, what a total bunch of....bulldukey!!!! Read this thing - and the pathetic FEW captions they put in!
NOW, they’re trying to paint “the ‘80s” as full of racial unrest and insensitivity and generally “unrest”ful. What a bunch of #@$@!
The ‘80s were GREAT. We finally felt good again after the first wave of America-hatred fueled by commie hippies. There was confidence and pride as well as just fun, before commies reared their heads again in the ‘90s and really started the pantload of garbage a`la race and ALSO “sexuality”.
Yeah, that was my first thought in the first couple sentences. It pretends to be a general interest story. Don't think so! The MSM were told to jump, and jump they did, like the little circus dogs they are.
I think there's just no more money in journalism any more. So, follow the money.
If I remember correctly in the documentary, "Eye On the Prize", I remember a discussion on black face.
They interviewed blacks who performed in blackface and they said basically, blackface was just part of the act and some of them utilized it because it allowed them to 'play to the back of the audience'. Meaning, the dramatic effect of blackface made it possible to use reach everyone in the audience.
In other words, they didn't really have a problem with it. It was just part of the act.
The idea blacks were forced to perform in blackface and it was an act of humiliation is a narrative.
We 'bout had this whole racism gig knocked and were mixin it up good. Scared the crap outta the left. Runnin outta boogie-men.
Then along came the Clintons...
Damn these "humans"...
I’ve scoured thru all the yearbooks that I have; (1976 & 1977 - High School), 1982 (College), as well as my sister’s (HS - 1974), and my brother’s HS & College (1986 & 1990) .... and not ONE ‘black-face’ or KKK picture in any of them. Not ONE !!
In 1954 I put on a grass skirt and a lei and did the hula. I swear I didn’t know it was a crime. Should I turn myself in?
When it's a white person who liberal Democrats support, blackface is described as "nuanced".
So this piece was written to tell us, 'lots of liberals did blackface up until the 80's. And it really wasn't a big deal'.
If a Conservative Republican is found to have done blackface, blackface will once again be declared to be the ultimate act of racism.
Save this article for future reference.
I admit to impersonating santa the last 20 years.
It’s true. Things were great. I guess I was naive. I had black friends of different stripes, punk and ghetto and regular middle class, and oriental friends. (Amazingly, latinos were basically unheard of then. Never mind Moslems.) Whites of regular middle class and trailer park type. We all got along and had fun.
This idiot thinks it was “chaotic” and apparently we had riots every other month.
LOL
Read the article again.
He’s telling us things were horrible before the enlightened “multiculturalism” ground whites into the earth.
That's what you think, Henry.
I thought Gov. Ralph Northam was imitating a KKK member...
While his costar Eddie Murphy wore whiteface in his Mr. White skit.
“Sports announcers of that time often described Boston Celtics player Larry Bird, who is white, as “smart” while describing his black NBA opponents as athletically gifted.”
Then there’s this one:
“If Larry Bird were black he would be just another good guy instead of being portrayed as the league’s best player.”
-Isiah Thomas
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