White trick-or-treaters in blackface: C/D?

Some of my best department stores' santas are black!

I've seen a Mexican department store Santa but never a black one. The reasoning is usually that the north pole doesn't have black people. Why should a black child sit on an old white man's lap?

lolling my damn eyes

a+++

USS not going to the right mall.

theres a bit in the santaland diaries by david sedaris where he talks about to racist parents that dont wanna get stiffed w/ like a dark looking santa

i assume they r horrible ppl

the parents, not the black santas

just wanna, um, be clear on that heh heh

merry xmas everyone

^^good save

david sedaris is huge in ireland

I was in india once during christmas and I guess its becoming a bigger thing there every year so there are tons of indian dudes dressed up like santa wearing plastic white faced santa masks on the street

its scary as fuck I think I posted about it once on the internet maybe even here

http://www.spiegel.de/images/image-164765-galleryV9-witz.jpg

I think that's the killer from don't look back

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Musical_notes.svg/30px-Musical_notes.svg.png It's the most wonderful time of the year...http://www.angelfire.com/in/sassyshideout/images/SongListAniMusicNotesR.gif

http://8.media.collegehumor.cvcdn.com/2/3/collegehumor.d581fef2142203531f202353ed619369.jpg

no she sleighed of her own accord.

uncool runnings

http://colorlines.com/archival_images/Taylor2FINAL1-1.jpg

http://colorlines.com/archives/2011/10/in_the_immortal_words_of.html

those posters are amazing and inspiring

I am feeling kinda shaken up today anyway but those posters just made me cry a few 'hope for humanity' tears.

http://www.spiegel.de/images/image-164765-galleryV9-witz.jpg

thanks abbbottt, this was pretty much what I was talkin about

iirc Der Spiegel posted that as their daily photo the same day you posted your comment. So the "danke" goes to them.

not having white skin and wearing white masks in general is a scary look that I'm down w/ on halloween, I think it the only fashion that I have rocked on purpose

That is an exceptionally creepy picture.

wonder if I still have that nixon mask

wheeeeee

http://twitter.com/#!/BizNasty2point0/status/130847513937854465/photo/1

oh no

on the bright side, whoffy whorres and his who?

yeah i just assumed he was some random soccer player but no he plays in the NHL

real talk, if you were at a halloween party and someone showed up in blackface what would you do? stay at the party awkwardly and nervously? say something to the person? say something to the host? just up and leave?

i would talk to them. what do you do if you find out via facebook pics that someone you've been friends with for years did blackface for halloween.

what is it w/ some people that wanna go out of their way to offend other races as if its a birthright...

like i love those ads, and yet there's a whole heap of people (and I'm not talking Yahoo Comments, Facebook, I mean peers of mine) goin "AHH MAN THEY TOO SENSITIVE". like yea I know people are stupid but why do some people seem to not be happy unless they've pissed off every group they don't belong to?

a good portion of people just have no concept of the history of blackface and why it's even offensive in the first place

the reactions you describe comes less from "hey man, it's 2011! post-racial!" or whatever and more from just straight up, dictionary definition ignorance

It's the bullying impulse.

yes that is a good point. i had an argument with a dude the other day who basically wanted to pass every type of historical context I gave as "white guilt". at that point I basically had to withdraw.

what an awkward conversation to have during sex

hahahahahahhaahah

I remember my mom having a very patient conversation with my brother when he was eight about why he couldn't "paint" his face to be Michael Jordan for Halloween.

"your crossover dribble isn't convincing enough, honey"

Yeah, I think that was the argument that sold him iirc.

jon /via/ chi 2.0 is white?!?!

Our elementary school used to put on this lip-synching contest and one of my friends wanted to do "Shake You Down" as a blackfaced Gregory Abbot.

I'd be willing to testify that he was 100% sincere about it too.

I had forgotten about assface darth vader

Back in the fourth grade, one kid in my class came to school dressed as Mr. T. with his face colored with brown *magic marker*. They couldn't wash it off so they just sent him home.

One time a kid in our year came to school dressed as Spiderman. Which basically consisted of a pair of Spiderman pajamas. Except everybody else was dressed normally because there wasn't any kind of Halloween dress up contest or anything.

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