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Blackface on RTE

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  • #32
    The Rape of Lucretia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭The Rape of Lucretia


    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.

    Exactly. Better times now. Blacks can use whites toilets and sit in the whites sections of restaurants, and whites can wear blackface without being acused of being racist.


  • #33
    Ulysses Gaze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    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.

    Tell it to the Utah Jazz, Snowflake.


  • #34
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 9,106 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    jimmy blevins wrote: »
    Offended? Who you calling offended?!!

    jimmy blevins I think.


  • #35
    RasTa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,111 ✭✭✭✭RasTa


    It was pretty hilarious

    C2PN57ZXAAEpIhk.jpg:large


  • #36
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Lamar Massive Mine wrote:
    Not comparable really, as one was in the UK and Ireland and the other was in the USA.

    I'm not getting drawn into another argument about weather it's racist or offensive or otherwise. Fact is Black and White Minstrels or anything like that won't be shown on Rte again. Rte made this decision 20 or 30 years ago so it can't be blamed on modern people being over sensitive.


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  • #37
    Allinall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,885 ✭✭✭Allinall


    . Double post


  • #38
    Cutie 3.14
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 610 ✭✭✭Cutie 3.14


    This guy


  • #39
    AlekSmart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,002 ✭✭✭✭AlekSmart


    Sleeper12 wrote: »
    I'm not getting drawn into another argument about weather it's racist or offensive or otherwise. Fact is Black and White Minstrels or anything like that won't be shown on Rte again. Rte made this decision 20 or 30 years ago so it can't be blamed on modern people being over sensitive.

    20 or 30 Years Ago ?

    Were people over-sensitive back then also ?


    Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

    Charles Mackay (1812-1889)



  • #40
    razorblunt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    I saw a screenshot too and couldn't believe it either, Nicky fúcking Byrne like.


  • #41
    DanMurphy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 398 ✭✭DanMurphy


    I saw Micky Jackson in whiteface loads of times and I wasn't offended.


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  • #42
    jameorahiely
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 825 ✭✭✭jameorahiely


    Are you assuming people's race?


    Facist


  • #43
    face1990
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,039 ✭✭✭face1990


    Dial Hard wrote: »
    He knows. He just forgot how mind-numbingly literal the denizens of AH are.

    It couldve been a fun thread.

    People blame the mods for all the fun being gone when actually it's all you shítes who are too on guard to notice good sarcasm.

    Be shíts to eachother in real life, and use online to unwind from that. Wasn't that the way before?


  • #44
    Gatling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    Cutie 3.14 wrote: »
    This guy

    That's the one ,

    He was dark last week and when asked about the fake tan he said had used enough to cover all the cast
    360_F_102352090_ie3kLjDIvgrT1sxVDknWCUh8PxgMYzM7.jpg




  • #45
    andekwarhola
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,687 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    Had a quick look at the programme on foot of this. He presumably blacked his face from the utter shame of appearing on it.


  • #46
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,069 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    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.

    There'e a whole thread devoted to this in the TV forum, and I must say it is very funny seeing that fella blacked up like a Black & White Minstrel (for those of you who remember them) ....

    Several of tomorrows UK & Irish papers also carry pictures of him in his crazy OTT Fake Tan gone mad look :D:D:D:D

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=102287190&postcount=588
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=102287332&postcount=589
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=102288178&postcount=598

    Really was very funny to watch tonight, although I'm not sure that the producers would have wanted the coulour of his face to be the main talking point !!!

    Who the hell is in charge of makeup? that's what I'd want to know.


  • #47
    Its all alt right
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81 ✭✭Its all alt right


    Remember folks, don't cross the streams..


  • #48
    Ulysses Gaze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    Its all alt right wrote: »
    Remember folks, don't cross the streams..

    Why?


  • #49
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,450 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    Ulysses Gaze wrote: »
    Its all alt right wrote: »
    Remember folks, don't cross the streams..

    Why?

    The Donald doesn't like it


  • #50
    anewme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,206 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    sugarman wrote: »
    How is blacking up racist?

    It's racist aganst Oompa Loompa's


  • #51
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,167 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


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  • #52
    Stonedpilot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Stonedpilot


    The Rape of Lucretia wrote: »
    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.

    Choose skin colour??? What a blessing eh!

    Ah yes I picked purple with green spots at the exact moment of conception.


  • #53
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,443 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »
    Are you usually this easily offended?

    Just what I'd expect from an Uncle Tom!

    :mad:


  • #54
    jonon9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,133 ✭✭✭jonon9


    The Talking Bread wrote: »
    What a nonsense nonsense thread!

    If anything, this thread is racist

    Im triggered and your sexist :D


  • #55
    JupiterKid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,954 ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    RTE were as usual behind the times. The black and white minstrels were ended on UK TV 40 years ago.

    I was watching a programme called "it was alright in the 70s" and the casual sexism, racism and homophobia was pretty bad. But we can't really judge stuff from over a generation ago by today's standards.


  • #56
    Surreptitious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,130 ✭✭✭Surreptitious


    I was looking to get my doors that colour. It's Hughie from BB though, what can you expect.


  • #57
    darkpagandeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,461 ✭✭✭✭darkpagandeath


    Rigght so fake tan.. So there is a line on what colour is to dark carry on. When we expecting a march on RTE ?


  • #58
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    RasTa wrote: »
    It was pretty hilarious

    C2PN57ZXAAEpIhk.jpg:large
    OK I thought this was hyperbole but that actually crosses the line from tan to blackface


  • #59
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Stonedpilot wrote: »
    Choose skin colour??? What a blessing eh!

    Ah yes I picked purple with green spots at the exact moment of conception.

    Race is fluid.


  • #60
    Yourself isit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,256 ✭✭✭Yourself isit


    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.

    In Ireland? Huge if true.


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  • #61
    mansize
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,521 ✭✭✭✭mansize


    Those guys make boardsies seem less like losers


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