Is 'blacking up' racist?

Black people with white makeup/warpaint = perfectly fine, and saying otherwise makes you a racist.

White people with black makeup/warpaint* = racist and you should burn in hell.

^^ Pretty much how it is in the UK :(

*i.e Celtic black warpaint, they were banned form using it at a recent historical re-enactment due to fears of racial offence lol
 
jsmoke said:
Another question is, should we actually be defining people as black and white in the first place, I always found that prejudice in itself.
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Yes we should.
Its perfectly natural to divide people based on genetic differences.
Someone has red hair.
Someone has blue eyes.
Someone has curly hair.
Someone is black.
Someone is female.

Its a genetic subset. Genetics are not offensive. People thinking others are being oppressed by describing them accurately is incredible mupperty in action.

Now saying uneducated young black men are all theives, thats racist.
Using mackup to darken your skintone so you look more like MrT in a fancy dress party, no, that isn't racist.
Referring to someone having black skin because they have black coloured skin, no, thats not racist.
 
Hikari Kisugi said:
Yes we should.
Its perfectly natural to divide people based on genetic differences.
Someone has red hair.
Someone has blue eyes.
Someone has curly hair.
Someone is black.
Someone is female.

Its a genetic subset. Genetics are not offensive. People thinking others are being oppressed by describing them accurately is incredible mupperty in action.

Now saying uneducated young black men are all theives, thats racist.
Using mackup to darken your skintone so you look more like MrT in a fancy dress party, no, that isn't racist.
Referring to someone having black skin because they have black coloured skin, no, thats not racist.
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Meh, i totally disagree with that, just putting people in boxes to suit your shortcomings really. That's what the cliquey media/fashion people like to do.
 
Hikari Kisugi said:
Yes we should.
Its perfectly natural to divide people based on genetic differences.
Someone has red hair.
Someone has blue eyes.
Someone has curly hair.
Someone is black.
Someone is female.

Its a genetic subset. Genetics are not offensive. People thinking others are being oppressed by describing them accurately is incredible mupperty in action.

Now saying uneducated young black men are all theives, thats racist.
Using mackup to darken your skintone so you look more like MrT in a fancy dress party, no, that isn't racist.
Referring to someone having black skin because they have black coloured skin, no, thats not racist.
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Very this
 
Its also what science does.
I treat my patients differently because oddly enough they are different.
They will have different needs, which are genetic and environmental.
If i fail to consider those then I am not providing as much of a service as I can.

Cliquey media types, don't know any personally. You go ahead and refer to everyone as the same, very dull world you live in, everyone has to be the same and described as the same, I prefer a bit of varaition in my life.
 
jsmoke said:
You obviously don't know much about history and the oppression of various peoples around the world. Periods of oppressing are often followed by periods of protection.
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My answer would have been, NO because it's a comedy!

Where as now I am thinking, if it was the other way around, maybe it would be racist.

What do you think Big Smoke?
 
Personally I don't see the problem.

I have seen black guys in fancy dress as nerdy white kids which were 'whited up'

However a white guy came to my friends Halloween house-party dressed as a Golliwog. He didn't see the funny side and I thought this was a bit risky (my mate whose house-party it was is mixed race and didn't even know him, just his Mrs)

Some people may say im racist for taking the pi%% or stereotyping different races of people, e.g black people not being able to swim, white people being bad a basketball, Chinese being good at maths and Jews being good with money. But I have friends who are all races and the above is mainly truth anyway!

Its just like a friend who is blind, he hates people treating him like a special child. We treat him the same as each other (by occasionally slipping a shot or 3 in his beer or walking him into puddles and lamp posts!)

It shouldn't be any different because your skin is a different colour - Yes, I 'rip' on my friends massive black tripod 3rd leg but that isn't exactly racist!
 
I saw two people blacked up as Usain Bolt and Mo Farrah at Leeds Festival, just like most things that are labelled racist (usually by people who are white or in the "I'm getting offened on behalf of someone else" group) it wasn't racist.
 
Guest2 said:
Personally I don't see the problem.

I have seen black guys in fancy dress as nerdy white kids which were 'whited up'

However a white guy came to my friends Halloween house-party dressed as a Golliwog. He didn't see the funny side and I thought this was a bit risky (my mate whose house-party it was is mixed race and didn't even know him, just his Mrs)

Some people may say im racist for taking the pi%% or stereotyping different races of people, e.g black people not being able to swim, white people being bad a basketball, Chinese being good at maths and Jews being good with money. But I have friends who are all races and the above is mainly truth anyway!

Its just like a friend who is blind, he hates people treating him like a special child. We treat him the same as each other (by occasionally slipping a shot or 3 in his beer or walking him into puddles and lamp posts!)

It shouldn't be any different because your skin is a different colour - Yes, I 'rip' on my friends massive black tripod 3rd leg but that isn't exactly racist!
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To me (I'm black) the whole golliwog thing came and went long before I was born (1984)... Although I do recall it being on jars of jam, it was never discussed on tv or any other form of media.

I doubt may people (younger than myself) even know what a gollywog is lol.
 
Mucky_Pup said:
I saw two people blacked up as Usain Bolt and Mo Farrah at Leeds Festival, just like most things that are labelled racist (usually by people who are white or in the "I'm getting offened on behalf of someone else" group) it wasn't racist.
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Well dressing up to impersonate two people who are at the alsolute peak of human achievement, I can't how that can be racist in any way.
 
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