Abel

IMHO: Back in years past Blackface was simply a theatrical prop. I fail to see it as much of a problem nowadays; there are far worse things going on in the theatrical business. R****ts blather about it because they wish to roil up the masses, but it has little meaning to most normal people. If it bothers these r****ts so much, why roil up the masses, why don't they just get even and paint their faces white?

To Hell with all this insignificant crap. We will have r****m, which is in general a natural trait shared by many species that are more comfortable being among species of their own kind. We will have political r****m as long as political r****m is profitable to the hard core political r****ts who make their living by promoting r****m for their personal gain, aggrandizement and wealth. These political r****ts should get over themselves and get a life. Frankly, normal people with our insignificant natural tendency to be comfortable among our own kind and tolerant of the feelings and beliefs of others, and the radical Progressive MSM profit mongers, should just ignore the political r****ts and allow this crap to go down the sewer with the rest of their Progressive pipe dreams of utopian democracy. After all, even Blue Jays can sit on the same limb with Sparrows and generally get along, and I've seen them do it, so why can't humans. Progressive Diversity, Multicultural, and multilingual philosophy most simply sucks because they can't communicate among themselves peacefully!

tbutkovich

I couldn’t agree with you more. It all starts with political correctness, and if your politically correct which is a position taken by the base of the Democrat Party, painting a Blackface on your face is r****t! They use PC all the time to try to railroad a political rival. In the Virginia Governor incident, this “PC stand” backfired because the Blackface was painted on one of their own. Political Correctness has gone to far. In this day and age, you can’t even tell a “polish joke” without someone coming unhinged! PC requires one to weigh the impact of their words and actions to accommodate a diverse group and class of people and a wide spectrum of sensitivities. In the PC environment, making an ethnic joke is “off limits!”

Gatsby

I just had to ask:

http://www.answers.com/Q/When_did_black-face_become_socially_unacceptable

Q. When did black-face become socially unacceptable?

A. It didn't!

Kevyn

Who in their right mind paints ther face to resemble others?

Orangface the most offensive of all

PaulPisces Loc: San Francisco

Spoken like a truly privileged white male.

archie bunker Loc: Texas

Hey Paul, if people wearing black face are an insult to the minority b****s, wouldn't men dressing as women be an insult to the female minority?

buffalo Loc: Texas

It is just another excuse for snowflakey, moonbatty SJWs to pretend to be butthurt and offended. Until it backfires and one of their own is found to have committed the heinous crime. Why would anybody give a s**t what someone did 35 years ago? They don't unless it fits their warped PC moonbat agenda.

PaulPisces Loc: San Francisco

I don't think so Arch. But in all honesty, that isn't for me as a male to decide. I think that's up to women to say.

Why white people feel the need to defend blackface (especially when shown in context with a KKK outfit) is beyond me.

archie bunker Loc: Texas

I asked Mrs. Bunker the same question, and she agreed with me. It offends her, as a woman. Of course, she's white, so it must be 'white privilege', right?
You're white, and, evidently don't have the stigma of 'white privilege' because you're a gay democrat. Can you explain this to me?
You're a male, no? Why aren't you guilty of 'white privilege'?

PaulPisces Loc: San Francisco

I am conscious every single day of the privilege afforded me by the circumstances of my race and g****r, my friend. And to be clear, I believe it isn't necessarily that I got anything "extra" because of my state, but that there were obstacles that simply have not been placed before me that are placed before people of color. From my position of privilege (with which I had nothing to do) it seems to me that I am obligated to work towards fairness for others. Certainly my experiences as a gay man have helped me have more empathy for those who have been unfairly treated because of something over which they have no control.

And while I fully respect Mrs. Bunkers feelings, I find it difficult to connect d**g q***n performances to the very real historical suppression of women in the same way that blackface is connected to the debasement of black people.

archie bunker Loc: Texas

I think 'white privilege' is a crock of bull**** myself. I'm white, and had no privilege growing up. I've earned everything I have, as have my children. Nothing was given to us because of our skin pigmentation. It is all from WORK. Much of it hard, less than desirable work.

The whole idea of 'white privilege' pisses me off, to be honest, since I don't come from a place of privilege myself.
It's all bulls**t.

PaulPisces Loc: San Francisco

You have missed my point, Arch.
It is not that you (or I) received anything special, it is that there are obstacles that people of color have had to overcome that we, being white men, never had placed in front of us. A willingness to work hard is irrelevant if one is denied the chance to do so because of the color of one's skin. Surely you can recognize that.

Abel

IMHO: This is the USA PaulPisces, you still have the right to state your opinion publicly, even as a male, regardless of your color, race, g****r, intelligence, religion, and/or "in all honesty" or not. Fortunately, I can reserve the right to not listen if I don't wish to, but I do support your right to speak your mind without fear of reprisal; getting upset about what you say is a choice for ME, and it is also MY choice whether I elect to walk away or punch you in the nose and face the consequences, and that is greatly affected by MY upbringing, training and attitudes formed early in life. The Extremist Progressives have made a total mess of interpreting our First Amendment by trying to change the context and intent of our Founding Fathers who wrote it, but they still haven't managed to completely destroy it, and I hope they never succeed in their efforts to do so. However, you go ahead and enjoy your perceived victim-hood if you feel you must, it's YOUR choice, but you might want to be careful of what you wish for... you might just accidentally get it, and I very seriously doubt that you will enjoy it once you have it. All you have to do to get in on our limited capitalist Constitutional Republic and improve yourself is to be willing to work for it; however, even if you are physically able and don't want to work for it as a freeloader, and just v**e for it instead (legally or not), our working taxpayers are forced by the Democratically inspired tax laws to give you far, far more benefits, health care, and sustenance that you deserve, even though the government is forced to borrow this money to give to you, which adds $Billions to our already outrageous and unmanageable National Debt. Insane, isn't it?

These Progressive policies, of course, are very, very wrong, and should be discontinued immediately, if not sooner, if the USA is to avoid bankruptcy and survive. You obviously haven't thought things through logically. We have a very beautiful country to live in here in our Republic, the USA, with an absolutely astounding abundance of good things to eat, to do, and to enjoy, so it really wouldn't be very wise or beneficial to your breed, with its Politically Correctness, Diversity pushing, Progressive birdbrains to s**t in your nest, or mine.

One should support the country where one lives, else move to some other country one can support! Providing, or course, that you are able to find another country that will tolerate your L*****t i***tology pipe dream of a NWO Utopia, under a King or Potentate (making us another third-world colony once again) and socialism. The USA must be doing something right, else people from all over the world wouldn't bust their butts, and even risk their lives to emigrate from their country to migrate into the USA and maybe go through our immigration program and become a legal US citizen, for wh**ever reasons, but very few people ever emigrate FROM the USA to migrate and maybe become citizens of some other country. Those who do emigrate from the USA, are mostly Wealthy Elites who have accumulated sufficient wealth by earning it, inheriting it, or stealing it, by their activities (legal or illegal) here in this Limited Capitalist Constitutional USA and can thus afford to live a vacation style life in their choice of countries without having to work to support themselves and families; of course it helps being able to take advantage of the local poor and peasants that have wages so low compared to the USA, that appears to be free to you, but at least it gives a job to someone locally who probably desperately needs it. If the USA fails, and I certainly hope it doesn't, I have nowhere to run, so I'm stuck here because I know of no other country that would take me in as a destitute refugee, but that's OK, I love my USA and don't want to leave anyway. Most other countries don't even like the USA, basically because of jealousy, and wouldn't even tolerate the USA if it weren't for the astronomical amounts of money the Democrats of the USA gives to their leaders, with scant return on our investment other than a place to park our Military to protect THEIR borders (and why not protect OUR OWN borders dummies?), and to buy their faux friendship; and that friendship will end the moment the USA goes broke, drying up their money tit.

We have been living on government SMOKE & MIRRORS CREDIT for many decades, ever since the FEDERAL RESERVE BANK was initiated by President Woodrow Wilson, a C*******t Democrat, that allowed the take over of the Congressional responsibility of handling our governments money so as a FOR-PROFIT Bank the FED could loan it back to the government and charge interest for doing so without ever being audited, which is a very poor business practice, and a damned shaky proposition. Of course, it is cheaper to live on borrowed money and just pay the interest and add a bit more to the principal each year to cover next years budget and Congressional liquor and entertainment bills; that way, the government can live really HIGH on the hog, the Democrats can continue to throw more and more money away and start more unconstitutional benefits programs that they can skim from, and keep the nearly continual war fires burning for the industrialists who support both sides, big Pharma, big Health, big Insurance, and big Bankers, and the principal just continues to grow and never, ever, gets paid off. Want to know who's making the big bucks? Just look around you and see who has the most and the biggest buildings! Follow the money! Now, what will happen when those lending to our government call in their loans we can't pay and they foreclose on us? What do you think is being used for collateral to secure the debt? The USA, and all of us citizens, of course.

As to the white extremist Ku Klux Klan, the KKK is a political group of Democratic origin, formed by Democratic activists in the Southern states of the USA long ago. And, by the way, I wasn't defending Blackface Theatrics in my original writing because I don't need to. I just believe it isn't very important to anyone but those with little to no sense of humor, a lot of socialist brainwashing, and Saul Alinsky training, from our socialist Colleges and Universities. After all, nearly all the women, including their D**gonass Pelosi complete with her silver liquor bar service, in the Democratic section of the House of Representatives at the SOTU, were dressed in their white KKK attire except for their dunce cap style hoods; I was somewhat entertained, not insanely offended, by their antics and theatrics that were quite juvenile and laced with a bit of slapstick comedy. It did point out their disrespectful attitude toward the US government and the House of Representatives, but since their current D**ggonass is the Speaker of the House, they felt empowered to carry out their little demonstration without fear of retribution.

I did notice that most others in attendance didn't appear to be in much of a mood for the white sheet brand of humor, nor was I, but we were able to manage to tolerate it in a civilized manner. Many of the citizens of the USA appear to have lost their sense of humor and their ability to tolerate things and people they personally disagree with no matter how insignificant it may be, which is a damned shame; without humor, and promoting rampant intolerance to escalate into mass hysteria, one simply stays angry most of the time, which, in general, is not very constructive nor enjoyable. It can also be detrimental to one's health, both mental and physical.

I also noticed that the Republicans about wore out their knees and hands by getting up and clapping for the President, where the Democrats more or less wore out their butts by sitting on their hands and scowling most of the time, which was no big surprise to anyone, particularly their Main Stream Media supporters with their Socialist talking heads and panelists after the SOTU speech in their wrap up b***h sessions, who thought the speech was just terrible, mostly because President Trump gave it. And what a putz she was, that gave the Democratic response; she sounded like she was campaigning to run for something; she was mostly about herself. Frankly, I thought President Trump did a great job of explaining his agenda and pointing out his accomplishments that the MSM mostly ignored, and the weaknesses of the DNC and their P**********l harassment and obstructionist agenda. Their asinine agenda is certainly not good for the country and vividly points out their hatred for the USA! This Establishment Swamp must be drained before the government can get off dead center and out of the mud.

Well, I expect very little to change in the Legislative Branch gridlock with people like these new millenniums entering the House and Senate with their Alinsky style obstructionism, their modern its all about me and screw you College/University attitudes, and their new majority position in the House, so we are most likely destined for a few more years of nothing happening to make the USA any better due to continued obstruction and P**********l harassment; just more arguing, b***hing, and moaning over trivial crap like the blackface and a******n non-issues, open borders to promote more i*****l m*****ts to v**e Democrat for their Democratic freebies and giveaways, Constitutional misinterpretation by L*****t Progressive constitutional lawyers, Progressive Judges legislating from the bench trying to protect and provide sanctuary for i*****l a***ns/migrants to unconstitutionally prevent the Border Patrol and ICE from enforcing migration and deportation laws, and promoting political r****m, by the L*****t Progressive Extremists. We have left being a country of laws to become a country of "selectively enforced" laws; there are so many laws now that we can't help but be a country of outlaws because no one can remember all of these laws and many are only enforced if it will benefit some career politician or one of his cohorts. We are way outside what the Constitution was intended to limit the government to; it was never intended to limit the people, just to limit what the government can force our citizens to do, and it is quite specific until you get into the Amendments above the Tenth, which get pretty shaky and personally beneficial and should be reviewed and possibly revised or eliminated.

No Federal funding should ever be provided to any State, County, or City that protects i*****l m*****ts or harbors sanctuaries for i*****l m*****ts, and that includes any 501c3 benefits to any and all non-profit organizations, including churches. US citizens who are found guilty of harboring i*****l m*****ts should either face a significant fine or incarceration for a significant period of time, or both.

Lack of intelligence shown by Progressive Extremists, and many l*****ts, could possibly be improved by proper education, which is, unfortunately, sorely lacking in our current government socialist controlled public education system which would have to be completely revised concerning both teachers and curriculum, to flush out all socialism. However, the stupidity the Progressive Extremists show violently, regularly, and openly.....has no cure, unfortunately.

Now, you might think I'm a Republican from the number of times I mention Democrats, but I'm not, I'm an Independent conservative veteran, I v**e, and I love my country, the United States of America. Have a nice day.

tbutkovich

Frank, honest and to the point. Thank You and May God Bless You!

buffalo Loc: Texas

It has to be re-education, PP:

Calling for newborns to be murdered didn’t get Ralph Northam in trouble, but goofing around wearing blackface, or dressed as a klansman, in his youth is considered so serious that he must undergo reeducation in the full North Korean sense of the term. He may possibly achieve rehabilitation, but only by doubling down on the cultural marxism that helped get him elected. From the moonbats who have not yet gotten laid off at BuzzFeed:

"Northam’s policy team is looking at crafting a set of proposals based on the premise that the governor’s mistakes have rendered him keenly aware of inequity and the lack of justice faced by black Virginians…

The centerpiece proposal is not complete in its scope or in terms of what it will seek to accomplish. But there are many possibilities being considered for a broad platform: increasing resources for affordable housing; setting new, more equitable standards in small business procurement; implementing programs that expand economic opportunity for entrepreneurs; pumping money into public services like education and t***sportation."

“More equitable” means discriminatory in favor of b****s. Expanding economic opportunity likewise would be attempted on a racial basis. Public services would receive taxpayer cash infusions in a manner considered to primarily benefit b****s.

The general idea is to prove that he is not a r****t by providing still more cash and special preferences for b****s at the expense of w****s.

As for his reeducation,

"Additionally, his advisers have assigned the governor homework: He’s begun to read Alex Haley’s “Roots”, and “The Case for R********ns,” the seminal essay in The Atlantic by Ta-Nehisi Coates."

So, don’t be surprised if he licks the bottom of Al (buckwheat) Sharpton’s shoe at the climax of his next groveling apology.