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Ok you can have your thread back but I'll say one more thing. I guess it's all subjective but I don't think these kids put this make up on and thought let's make ourselves up as minstrels and the parents/teachers never thought their intent was to look like minstrels or they wouldn't have allowed it...

Honestly I don't care any more. Whoever that kid is, or whatever school he went to, wearing Minstrel Show makeup is wrong. Seems like a lot of people here do not agree with that, and will not even concede that his makeup looked like the makeup worn by Minstrel Show performers. Again, I do not blam...

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I don't care what Snopes says. As I pointed out in the other post on the other thread. That game they are talking about was played at George Rogers Clark High School in Clark County. First, that school doesn't wear uniforms that say Clark County because that's not the name of the school. I posted a ...

And yet it seems that I do....

No jackass. He had too much paint on his face. No one else had the white circles painted around their eyes and mouth. You are a filthy bold faced liar. I said several times that the kid probably has no idea about the history of blackface or Minstrel Shows, and that it was up to the adults to teach ...

The sound of one hand clapping is about as loud as the sound of one party arguing. Blackface is racist. I don't think you need to prove that to anyone....

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I stopped going into that thread because trying to explain to them why that makeup is perceived as racist was about as useful as repeatedly bashing my head into a brick wall. So now they are following me around the forum with this ****. They just won't let it go....

Oh, so you're smearing this kid and the school as racist because he didn't have quite enough paint on his face. You're utterly deranged....