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re: Black people from South Africa and New Orleans are fighting over the Zulu parade

Posted on 4/12/25 at 10:22 am to
Posted by Roberteaux
mandeville
Member since Sep 2009
6231 posts
Posted on 4/12/25 at 10:22 am to
Another part of the planet actually gives a shite about New Orleans??
Posted by BrotherEsau
Member since Aug 2011
3599 posts
Posted on 4/12/25 at 10:23 am to
Nah. My great uncle road from the late 60s through the 90s, maybe the early 2000s, when he got too old. He’s white all day. Painted himself black every year along with a bunch of other white and black dudes.
Posted by nola tiger lsu
Member since Nov 2007
7382 posts
Posted on 4/12/25 at 10:25 am to
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Painted himself black every year along with a bunch of other white and black dudes.


This is weird
Posted by soccerfüt
Location: A Series of Tubes
Member since May 2013
74897 posts
Posted on 4/12/25 at 10:27 am to
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How old is that parade?
So difficult lmgtfy link

This post was edited on 4/12/25 at 10:31 am
Posted by Marciano1
Marksville, LA
Member since Jun 2009
20044 posts
Posted on 4/12/25 at 10:35 am to
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Black people
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are fighting
Stunning development
Posted by tide06
Member since Oct 2011
23405 posts
Posted on 4/12/25 at 10:38 am to
Is this the black equivalent of Italians making fun of Italian Americans who eat at Olive Garden?
Posted by Jake88
Member since Apr 2005
80048 posts
Posted on 4/12/25 at 10:54 am to
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Wearing Black face?
Yes. They have to or they don't ride. That's the rule of the black leadership of the organization.
Posted by Klark Kent
Houston via BR
Member since Jan 2008
74894 posts
Posted on 4/12/25 at 10:56 am to
only good things come from layering incompatible culture on top of incompatible culture.
Posted by toratiger
susukino
Member since Aug 2008
3568 posts
Posted on 4/12/25 at 11:03 am to
No shits given. Most outsiders do not understand Mardi Gras New Orleans style.
Posted by OysterPoBoy
City of St. George
Member since Jul 2013
44953 posts
Posted on 4/12/25 at 11:12 am to
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X user @tiredfeminist


Posted by DaBike
Member since Jan 2008
10559 posts
Posted on 4/12/25 at 11:29 am to
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Zulu has white people in it now?


White people have been riding in Zulu for a very long time. I am almost 60, and white people were riding in Zulu when I was a teenager.
Posted by HeyCap
Member since Nov 2014
1095 posts
Posted on 4/12/25 at 11:44 am to
I once rode in Zulu back in the 80’s and I’m white. My friend was good friends with the Morials and their inner circle.
Everyone blackfaced.
Posted by mdomingue
Lafayette, LA
Member since Nov 2010
47686 posts
Posted on 4/12/25 at 12:05 pm to
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Oh well it’s been about 35 years since I went to Zulu. I thought it was all black.



Zulu was all black until 1973. It was the first New Orleans area Mardi Gras Krewe to be integrated, as I understand it. I do not know the extent of white membership in the Krewe or how that has changed as time has gone on.
Posted by Narax
Member since Jan 2023
7971 posts
Posted on 4/12/25 at 12:13 pm to
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Yes. They have to or they don't ride. That's the rule of the black leadership of the organization.


wow... had no idea...

Posted by TigerintheNO
New Orleans
Member since Jan 2004
44932 posts
Posted on 4/12/25 at 12:40 pm to
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Wearing Black face?


yes New York Times did an article about it in 2019
Posted by TechBullDawg
Member since May 2014
2533 posts
Posted on 4/12/25 at 12:55 pm to
Team SA
Posted by LSUtoBOOT
Member since Aug 2012
20433 posts
Posted on 4/12/25 at 1:05 pm to
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Zulu has white people in it now?

They had to purchase a temporary card allowing it without cancellation.
Posted by bayou2
New Orleans, LA
Member since Feb 2007
3919 posts
Posted on 4/12/25 at 1:25 pm to


... question is:

"Will South Africa petition the Zulu parade members to change their name, like the Washington Redskins were forced to change theirs"?

Posted by OweO
Plaquemine, La
Member since Sep 2009
122197 posts
Posted on 4/12/25 at 1:33 pm to
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Pictures, not just walking in the parade but wearing black face?

Those idiots shouldn't get my support.


I doubt anyone cares if you support them or not I am just saying. South Africans are upset black people wear black face right? Wait until they find out there are white people in Zulu who wears black face as well. It fits the theme of the krewe and parade, which is honoring the Zulu king.

My whole point is that getting upset about "black face" is dumb. And I saw something about this on twitter the other day where black people not from Louisiana were like "don't judge us based on what they do down there".

I just think its dumb to get upset over anyone wearing black face and without seeing any of these south African accounts, I would bet they are bots. That's what social media has become. A tool to drive a wedge between any two groups they can.
Posted by Bigfishchoupique
Member since Jul 2017
9607 posts
Posted on 4/12/25 at 1:59 pm to
I’ve worn blackface before. I’m white. Would wear it again with no qualms whatsoever. Sticks and stone may break your bones, but blackface will never hurt you.
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