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Oct 7th 2009 | 6:10 pm

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Originally Posted by ex_exile

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....

Get a grip ffs... It was a comedy sketch that you believe is in bad taste. It wasn't the reintroduction of slavery. Nobody died and nobody was lynched.

Oct 7th 2009 | 7:28 pm

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But do blacks feel offended?

Oct 7th 2009 | 7:34 pm

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But do blacks feel offended?

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.

Oct 7th 2009 | 7:36 pm

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But do blacks feel offended?

Yes.

Oct 7th 2009 | 7:39 pm

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Yes.

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?

Oct 7th 2009 | 7:40 pm

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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.

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

Oct 7th 2009 | 7:43 pm

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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.

Oct 7th 2009 | 7:44 pm

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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?

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.

Oct 7th 2009 | 7:44 pm

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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.

You don't have to be black to abhor racism

Oct 7th 2009 | 7:45 pm

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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.

I was never offended by Michael Jackson whitening his face and pretending to be white.

Oct 7th 2009 | 7:47 pm

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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.

My brother and sister in law are black and neither were offended so far be it from me to be outraged. Oh well.

Let me just say that some black communities around the world have a lot more self pride than we are led to believe and arent as thin skinned either. Thank **** for that.

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Oct 7th 2009 | 8:10 pm

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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.

Which is exactly what Harry Connick Junior did