(02-02-2019 11:05 AM)bullet Wrote: (02-02-2019 10:38 AM)mptnstr@44 Wrote: (02-01-2019 10:34 PM)bullet Wrote: (02-01-2019 09:52 PM)mptnstr@44 Wrote: (02-01-2019 04:51 PM)WKUYG Wrote: I loved the 80s where it was OK to act stupid and crazy without the world judging your heart or intent. The 90s were OK too but by then I was 30 at the beginning of them...close to being out of doing crazy **** just because it was crazy.
I understand the point of the post and I agree with it in that context. But at some point we are going to have to come to our senses and stop judging people on things they did, in a different world.
Black face and a Klan hood were not ok in the 80s.
Blackface wasn't a big deal until the last few years. KKK was always weird. At least since the 1920s.
Painting up black for a football game might've been ok but Blackface next to a KKK hood has a whole other context and was not OK in Ohio.
You are changing your narrative. Its the KKK hood that was problematic.
Blackface itself was done by liberal comedians on TV just 10 years ago without a single bit of backlash.
Blackface with the KKK hood is the problem. If Northam was painted in black for a football game it wouldn't be.
Don't remember blackface by comedians 10 years ago. Who in the mainstream did it?
I did some quick research and blackface has been done by a few performers since the 1980s but there are only a few.
The only reference I can find to someone performing in blackface in the past 20 years is Robert Downey Jr. in Tropic Thunder (2008).
In the 90s I found Dave Chapelle (but it's not the same if the person doing blackface is black) and Fred Travalena, impersonating Eddie Murphy on Live with Regis and Kathie Lee, and Michael Jackson at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards and Jim Varney, in Ernest Goes to Africa (1997)
In the 80s I found Dana Plato, in an episode of Diff'rent Strokes and Elizabeth Taylor, in Young Toscanini (1988) and Flip Wilson, in the 1980 TV special Uptown: A Tribute to the Apollo Theater (but again Wilson is black so the context is different) and "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, while wrestling for the World Wrestling Federation and Marcello Mastroianni, in Miss Arizona (1987) and Peter Allen, impersonating Al Jolson during his 1981-82 engagement at Radio City Music Hall
Based on this list (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_en..._blackface) performers in blackface have been few and far between since the 1960s probably coinciding with the Civil Rights movement.
Blackface is a specific look popularized in Vaudeville. Combined with someone in a KKK hood it was meant to be racist and would've been taken as so in 1984.