Blackface on RTE

jimmy blevins · 15-01-2017 08:01PM #1

I was just sitting down to watch another superlative offering by Rte of dancing with the stars when I was shocked and offended to see one of the competitors was in blackface.

Poor Uncle Tom · 15-01-2017 08:03PM

Are you usually this easily offended?

enzo roco · 15-01-2017 08:04PM

Who gives a flying fcuk?

Cop on.

mad muffin · 15-01-2017 08:04PM

What's more shocking is that one would watch rte's version of strictly :eek:

henryporter · 15-01-2017 08:05PM

You can't be that easily offended if you put that muck on in the first place

Allinall · 15-01-2017 08:06PM

Black faces matter.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 15-01-2017 08:06PM

Relax, you'll get over it when something else comes along to offend you.

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000 · 15-01-2017 08:07PM

jimmy blevins wrote: »

I was just sitting down to watch another superlative offering by Rte of dancing with the stars when I was shocked and offended to see one of the competitors was in blackface.

Won't someone think of the children?

ollie1 · 15-01-2017 08:11PM

Was more of a dark browny colour to me.

Burzum · 15-01-2017 08:12PM

Probably just a bad fake tan.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 15-01-2017 08:17PM

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/e6/3c/69/e63c691428bfaf730e1c5a6bc6355c88.jpg

granturismo · 15-01-2017 08:20PM

jimmy blevins wrote: »

I was just sitting down to watch another superlative offering by Rte of dancing with the stars when I was shocked and offended to see one of the competitors was in blackface.

pictures of the blackface or even you being offended please

selectamatic · 15-01-2017 08:21PM

How bad did it make you feel?

Butters1979 · 15-01-2017 08:25PM

OP, you're kidding right?

jimmy blevins · 15-01-2017 08:26PM

Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

Are you usually this easily offended?

Offended? Who you calling offended?!!

lawred2 · 15-01-2017 08:26PM

jimmy blevins wrote: »

I was just sitting down to watch another superlative offering by Rte of dancing with the stars when I was shocked and offended to see one of the competitors was in blackface.

Was in what?

lawred2 · 15-01-2017 08:27PM

mad muffin wrote: »

What's more shocking is that one would watch rte's version of strictly :eek:

Or anyone's version to be more precise

Poor Uncle Tom · 15-01-2017 08:28PM

jimmy blevins wrote: »

Offended? Who you calling offended?!!

Usually....

The answer's in the question, pay attention.....

Gatling · 15-01-2017 08:28PM

It's a bloke who's obsessed with fake tan nothing to do with black face

15-01-2017 08:37PM

Gatling wrote:

It's a bloke who's obsessed with fake tan nothing to do with black face

I haven't seen it but guessed as much. RTE banned the Black and White Minstrels about 30 years ago. Can't imagine them allowing anything racist like that

Sir Osis of Liver. · 15-01-2017 08:41PM

Orangeing up is the new racism.

munster87 · 15-01-2017 08:42PM

sugarman wrote: »

How is blacking up racist?

It's ok if it's done tastefully and with a certain amount of sophistication! ðŸŒš

lertsnim · 15-01-2017 08:45PM

Fake tan overload. That's not blackface.

15-01-2017 08:47PM

sugarman wrote:

How is blacking up racist?

Try googling the history of blackface.
If RTE still had black faced minstrels it would only take one complaint to have them fined. It's banned by most tv stations around the world.
You'll notice Lyons tea haven't done minstrels advertising in 20 or 30 years or so either.

Dial Hard · 15-01-2017 08:52PM

lertsnim wrote:

Fake tan overload. That's not blackface.

He knows. He just forgot how mind-numbingly literal the denizens of AH are.

The Talking Bread · 15-01-2017 08:53PM

What a nonsense nonsense thread!

If anything, this thread is racist

AlekSmart · 15-01-2017 08:56PM

Sleeper12 wrote: »

Try googling the history of blackface.
If RTE still had black faced minstrels it would only take one complaint to have them fined. It's banned by most tv stations around the world.
You'll notice Lyons tea haven't done minstrels advertising in 20 or 30 years or so either.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoYOraDt1_k

Gosh....I remember watching the Black and White Ministrel Show with my mammy....on a Black and White TV set mind you...come to think of it...Perhaps we should have complained ???

The Rape of Lucretia · 15-01-2017 09:04PM

sugarman wrote: »

How is blacking up racist?

It isnt. Everyone has a right to choose their skin colour. We live in a world of equality.
Being offended at people blacking up is racist - that is like saying that black people have an exclusive right to that skin tone, and other races have no right to it. Pure racism. I though Ireland had moved beyond this type of stuff. Blackface totally OK in any open, modern and non-racist society. Get with the times.

15-01-2017 09:06PM

AlekSmart wrote:

Gosh....I remember watching the Black and White Ministrel Show with my mammy....on a Black and White TV set mind you...come to think of it...Perhaps we should have complained ???

Different times back then. It was only a few years before that again and "Blacks" couldn't use "Whites" toilets, sit in the "White" section of restaurants or sit up front of the bus.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 15-01-2017 09:10PM

Sleeper12 wrote: »

Different times back then. It was only a few years before that again and "Blacks" couldn't use "Whites" toilets, sit in the "White" section of restaurants or sit up front of the bus.

Not comparable really, as one was in the UK and Ireland and the other was in the USA.

Atoms for Peace · 15-01-2017 09:10PM

Dial Hard wrote: »

He knows. He just forgot how mind-numbingly literal the denizens of AH are.

Superlative and RTE in the same sentence has to be a piss take.

Blackface on RTE

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