Originally Posted by ex_exile (Post 7999159)

No its just denigrating people because of their skin colour, nothing to lose sleep over, huh. It was clearly in poor taste and offensive, a lynching used to be considered to be good fun back in the day and I'm sure there were people then who blah, blahed on about being on the wrong side of the world to people who objected to it but times changed and people who supported things like that are now considered to be racist assholes....

Originally Posted by paulry (Post 7999308)

But do blacks feel offended?

Originally Posted by paulry (Post 7999308)

But do blacks feel offended?

Originally Posted by kporte (Post 7999320)

Yes.

Originally Posted by Officer Dibble (Post 7999316)

Who knows? It only ever seems to be whites that cry 'foul'. My brother and sister in law thought it was mildly funny but theyre not the blacks that you may know and like.

Originally Posted by kporte (Post 7999336)

The act was patronising at best, racist at worst. It has been condemned all across the globe and the fact that some Australians are trying to brush it off rather than acknowledging the blunder is making them look more racist than the actual act itself

Originally Posted by Officer Dibble (Post 7999330)

How do you know? All the evidence in Oz may well suggest that it was slightly bemusing. Blacks in the US or UK may well have been out for blood. Who owns the rights to outrage?

Originally Posted by Officer Dibble (Post 7999342)

As Ive said, I did cringe thinking WTF are you doing but I think the outrage it a bit more palatable when it comes fromn black people themselves.

Originally Posted by kporte (Post 7999343)

I asked some. I really can't understand why people can't grasp, a white man blackening his face and pretending to be black, is just wrong in this day and age.

Originally Posted by kporte (Post 7999343)

I asked some. I really can't understand why people can't grasp, a white man blackening his face and pretending to be black, is just wrong in this day and age.

Originally Posted by kporte (Post 7999343)

I asked some. I really can't understand why people can't grasp, a white man blackening his face and pretending to be black, is just wrong in this day and age.

Originally Posted by ABCDiamond (Post 7999399)

Which is exactly what Harry Connick Junior did :D

Originally Posted by kporte (Post 7999406)

Did he?

Originally Posted by kporte (Post 7999406)

Did he?