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My Blackface story - with a twist
Posted on 2/4/19 at 9:07 am
Posted on 2/4/19 at 9:07 am
Back in the 1980’s people used to have a sense of humor when it came to race relations and being able to make fun of stereo-types and being able to laugh at yourself.
Are you folks going to try and tell me that you didn’t laugh at Mel Brooks and “Blazing Saddles”? Or laugh as Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy talked about whites and blacks?
Back in the late 1980’s I was in my high school band and we had a big football game on Halloween night. It was an away game in a small town in south Texas near Houston. We had a long bus ride to their stadium. The band director told us that instead of wearing our band uniforms, we all had to dress up in Halloween costumes.
One of our Drum Majors (white guy) and his best friend and lead trumpet soloist (black guy) thought it would be funny to dress up as the opposite race.
-The white guy showed up in blackface and he did a great job with the make-up. We could not tell that he was really white.
-The black guy showed up in a full KKK outfit (hood and all) and wore gloves so you could not tell that he was black. He wore the entire costume all during the 1st half in the stands prior to us going on the field to perform at halftime. (Didn't the black guy in "Blazing Saddles" dress up as a KKK guy?)
-During the halftime performance the black KKK guy had a trumpet solo and stepped out to play it. When he finished his solo, he pulled off his KKK hood to reveal that he was black. The local crowd roared with laughter. They all got the joke.
-Supposedly, on the Monday morning after the game, our band director got a phone call. It was from one of the head guys of the actual local KKK Chapter that was at the game who was supporter of our away opponents. (17 year old me didn’t know there were still people actually in the KKK back then! I thought the group had died out)
Anyway, he wanted to tell the band director that he thought the KKK outfit worn by our trumpet soloist was hilarious. They all got the joke.
My school was made up of whites, blacks and Hispanics. About equal distribution. Nobody was offended by the kids wearing costumes and pretending to be other races. Nobody. Not one complaint anywhere.
Times sure have changed.
Are you folks going to try and tell me that you didn’t laugh at Mel Brooks and “Blazing Saddles”? Or laugh as Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy talked about whites and blacks?
Back in the late 1980’s I was in my high school band and we had a big football game on Halloween night. It was an away game in a small town in south Texas near Houston. We had a long bus ride to their stadium. The band director told us that instead of wearing our band uniforms, we all had to dress up in Halloween costumes.
One of our Drum Majors (white guy) and his best friend and lead trumpet soloist (black guy) thought it would be funny to dress up as the opposite race.
-The white guy showed up in blackface and he did a great job with the make-up. We could not tell that he was really white.
-The black guy showed up in a full KKK outfit (hood and all) and wore gloves so you could not tell that he was black. He wore the entire costume all during the 1st half in the stands prior to us going on the field to perform at halftime. (Didn't the black guy in "Blazing Saddles" dress up as a KKK guy?)
-During the halftime performance the black KKK guy had a trumpet solo and stepped out to play it. When he finished his solo, he pulled off his KKK hood to reveal that he was black. The local crowd roared with laughter. They all got the joke.
-Supposedly, on the Monday morning after the game, our band director got a phone call. It was from one of the head guys of the actual local KKK Chapter that was at the game who was supporter of our away opponents. (17 year old me didn’t know there were still people actually in the KKK back then! I thought the group had died out)
Anyway, he wanted to tell the band director that he thought the KKK outfit worn by our trumpet soloist was hilarious. They all got the joke.
My school was made up of whites, blacks and Hispanics. About equal distribution. Nobody was offended by the kids wearing costumes and pretending to be other races. Nobody. Not one complaint anywhere.
Times sure have changed.
This post was edited on 2/4/19 at 9:10 am
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Posted on 2/4/19 at 9:11 am to TurkeyBaconLeg
Nobody's outraged about the black face. It's the double standard not afforded to Kav and Roy Moore that's infuriating about this.
Posted on 2/4/19 at 9:15 am to sodcutterjones
And the fact that he called Ed Gillespie, the former Governor, a racist.
Posted on 2/4/19 at 9:16 am to sodcutterjones
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Nobody's outraged about the black face. It's the double standard not afforded to Kav and Roy Moore that's infuriating about this.
I agree. There is a huge double standard now. People have forgotten how to laugh at themselves.
Posted on 2/4/19 at 9:20 am to TurkeyBaconLeg
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Anyway, he wanted to tell the band director that he thought the KKK outfit worn by our trumpet soloist was hilarious. They all got the joke.
I'm happy to hear he got the support of the local KKK. Something to be proud of
Posted on 2/4/19 at 9:22 am to TurkeyBaconLeg
People figured out that they can gain political and financial leverage by generating outrage. That was the end of good natured humor, which was also the end of any meaningful discussions about race.
Posted on 2/4/19 at 9:26 am to sodcutterjones
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Nobody's outraged about the black face. It's the double standard not afforded to Kav and Roy Moore that's infuriating about this.
You're half-right. There are indeed many on the Left that are legitimately outraged. It's like the verdict in Wickard v Filburn that massively expanded the growth of the federal government by determining that any transaction (no matter how small) has a theoretical effect on interstate travel (even if that effect can't be measured) and thus Congress has ultimate authority to regulate it.
What I mean by that is that there are those race-baiters and racial navel-gazers out there that see anything that could ever possibly be considered even the tiniest bit racist (even if that amount can't be measured) must therefore be viciously denounced and those involved must pay with their professional lives.
Posted on 2/4/19 at 9:28 am to TurkeyBaconLeg
The swamp is enraged, the rest of us are fine. All our races have peculiar attributes which are funny to laugh at, the mentally deranged do no like funny 
Posted on 2/4/19 at 9:34 am to Bard
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You're half-right. There are indeed many on the Left that are legitimately outraged. It's like the verdict in Wickard v Filburn that massively expanded the growth of the federal government by determining that any transaction (no matter how small) has a theoretical effect on interstate travel (even if that effect can't be measured) and thus Congress has ultimate authority to regulate it. What I mean by that is that there are those race-baiters and racial navel-gazers out there that see anything that could ever possibly be considered even the tiniest bit racist (even if that amount can't be measured) must therefore be viciously denounced and those involved must pay with their professional lives.
true, i should have better clarified; there are factions of the left that are truly disgusted about the blackface, but for most people it's not a big deal. The hypocrisy of our politicians is, though.
Posted on 2/4/19 at 9:35 am to Walkthedawg
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All our races have peculiar attributes which are funny to laugh at
If poking fun at racial idiosyncrasies is wrong, I don't ever want to be right
If anything, I'm excited for the new tropes that will emerge as our population becomes even more blended. Weirdos getting mad about races mixing are missing a prime opportunity for brand new comedy material, IMO.
Posted on 2/4/19 at 9:37 am to TurkeyBaconLeg
I don't believe your story
Posted on 2/4/19 at 9:38 am to TurkeyBaconLeg
Chevy Chase and Richard Pryor did a skit on SNL back in the late 70's that would cause the left wings heads to explode if it were done now.
Things have definitely changed
YouTube SNL
Things have definitely changed
YouTube SNL
This post was edited on 2/4/19 at 9:41 am
Posted on 2/4/19 at 9:40 am to sodcutterjones
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It's the double standard not afforded to Kav and Roy Moore that's infuriating about this.
Allegations of sexual assault and pedo predatory sexual behavior? Those aren't the same.
Posted on 2/4/19 at 9:40 am to TurkeyBaconLeg
Former Baton Rouge mayor Kip Holden once showed up to a fancy masquerade ball at the country club of Baton Rouge dressed in a full Klan outfit and hood to stunned silence, which he, of course broke, by saying “Where the white women at?!” Most stayed in stunned silence. My dad laughed his arse off.
Kip Holden is black, fyi
Kip Holden is black, fyi
This post was edited on 2/4/19 at 9:59 am
Posted on 2/4/19 at 9:43 am to TurkeyBaconLeg
To be honest....most republicans don't really care if you dress in blackface or whiteface or KKK or whatever. But if Dems are going to blast all Republicans as racist then we should make them eat their shite sandwich.
Posted on 2/4/19 at 9:47 am to TurkeyBaconLeg
I was in a fraternity at LSU in the late 80's. The big party is was island themed. It had been traditional for the members to wear grass skirts and paint up black. It had come down from national that this was no longer allowed. The year before I arrived the frat had not painted up. My freshman year, the actives decided to say frick it and everyone painted up. It caused a big bruohaha with the alumni leadership, some folks got in trouble and we never did it again. I think the blackface taboo has been around for quite some time.
Posted on 2/4/19 at 9:47 am to TurkeyBaconLeg
quote:
Back in the 1980’s people used to have a sense of humor
This was all that you needed to say
Posted on 2/4/19 at 9:51 am to TbirdSpur2010
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If poking fun at racial idiosyncrasies is wrong, I don't ever want to be right
No kidding. Can you imagine a world in which Dave Chappelle doesn't give us the racial draft?
Posted on 2/4/19 at 9:56 am to theOG
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Can you imagine a world in which Dave Chappelle doesn't give us the racial draft?
And "Black Bush" is one of the funniest sketches I've ever seen in my entire life.
And I supported Bush.
Funny is funny.
Posted on 2/4/19 at 10:04 am to TurkeyBaconLeg
When I was a kid, there was this guy in Shreveport, name of Jim Culbertson, a local businessman. At school talent shows and other function (Kiwanis meetings, business club galas, stuff like that, he would darken his face like an Arab, and dress like an Arab sheik, and lip sync to Ahab the Arab in pantomine, playing a guitar with no strings and two other men, my dad being one occasionally, would prance around in a fake camel costume. It was good for laughs, but I guess today, he'd be called a racist for it.
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