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White Teen In Blackface Responds To Black Critics: ‘Worry About Finding Your Dad’

If this question comes up again, here's a handy reference: Should I Dress in Blackface This Halloween?
Not really getting into the spirit of the holiday: Racist Craigslist post: No black trick-or-treaters

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[fizzyland.livejournal.com]

It's a matter of context. There's a difference between dressing as a character or celebrity that would be pretty non-controversial, and Trayvon Martin.

Likewise, putting on dark makeup and declaring "We're n*ggers for Halloween!" removes all ambiguity. For them, it's all about rebelling agains the "political correctness" that says that they can't say n*gger and act out stereotypes. Now they make it a big joke and go to their white people party and everyone will throw that name around and it's all fun and games.

[icelore.livejournal.com]

You did see the thing about a white girl for dressing up as a black character from Orange is the New Black (http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2013/10/28/julianne-hough-slammed-for-donning-black-face-halloween-costume/), right? (apologies for the fox news link, but they're all the same story)A whole group of girls (all white) went as characters from the show, and one of them went as the one black character. It didn't end well.

So yeah, intent, dressing as a character, etc. is still a reason to have a giant blow up. For some, black face is not contextual; any time there is darker then your natural skin tone makeup involved, it's directly related to historical negative blackface and oppression, end of story.

[anfalicious.livejournal.com]

See, I think that's silly and actually makes things worse, because it's ignoring the context of black face and therefore ignoring history (which is exactly the problem with people doing actual blackface). She's not even that dark, she could easily be that colour after a few solarium sessions. But then, I'm white, so my opinion on the matter doesn't really count.

John Safran and Chris Lilly are both white Australians who have played black Americans in TV shows and I think you'd have to be looking to be offended to be offended by them. Especially Lilly's character who is a rich, suburban black kid pretending to be gangster.