(February 13, 2019 at 3:22 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: Yes, Drich, blackface was just as "evil" then as it is now, and as it ever was. That's why we don't do blackface. What's the deal, where you alllllll about blackface back in the 80's or somvething? Did you think that everyone else was doing it, so..you know, why the fuck not, right? Christ, lol.
A white guy who " knows what black people are offended by".
Odd.. I was watching a movie with my roommate at the time on HBO.
Silver Streak with Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder. There' s a scene where Gene darkens his face and Richard trys to teach him to " walk black".
My roommate and I both laughed our asses off. ( of course we were pretty drunk).
I later asked him at work - if he thought the scene was offensive to him, a black guy... He told me - "I know you well enough to know you don't mean to be a prick by asking... But, I' d only be offended if some cracker asked me that just to see how thin my skin is. It was funny, not offensive -- because it was MEANT to be funny."
