Atlantic Records boss steps down over black face

17-10-2019 1:36pm #1

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-50067203

amazing really how this can result in someone being essentially forced out of their job.

"Come as your favourite musical icon"
"Cool, I love Run DMC plus they have a distinctive style, I'll go as one of them"

****7 years later****

RACIST!!!!!!!!

Trudeau really managed to weather his own storm. Sad that others cant.

begsbyOnaTrain · 17-10-2019 1:37pm

The only reason I clicked on the link was to see the guy in blackface. Disappointed.

Omackeral · 17-10-2019 1:38pm

I hate everyone in these situations. The dopes who do it knowing people will get offended and the dopes getting offended at it. Fcuk sake.

jimgoose · 17-10-2019 1:43pm

Hmm. That "Cardi B" one looks like a Ladyboy.

Immortal Starlight · 17-10-2019 1:46pm

Stupid to leave his job because of this. He should have shown a bit of backbone and stayed.

Weepsie · 17-10-2019 1:48pm

He's seemingly partly responsible for the success of Ed Sheeran and the ever increasing rewarding of mediocrity . I'm okay with this sacking

Your Face · 17-10-2019 1:58pm

Limp-wristed apologies in these situations annoy me.
Just own it.

blinding · 17-10-2019 1:59pm

Immortal Starlight wrote: »

Stupid to leave his job because of this. He should have shown a bit of backbone and stayed.

Should have taken a Black Boner to Atone .

DavidLyons_ · 17-10-2019 2:46pm

Omackeral wrote: »

I hate everyone in these situations. The dopes who do it knowing people will get offended and the dopes getting offended at it. Fcuk sake.

+100. Bunch of w@nkers. I was delighted Trudeau was made to sweat when he did it because @ssholes like him are usually the ones flapping their gums in outrage when someone does things like that.

Stormzy demanded your man be sacked apparently. Absolute thin-skinned tw@ts.

On the plus side, this git is responsible for Sheeran’s rise. Good riddance to him before he does any more damage to the music business. Pity he couldn’t take Stormzy with him.

4068ac1elhodqr · 17-10-2019 2:52pm

Time to check the halloween photos from 20yrs ago incase it somehow hinders the next 20yrs.

biko · 17-10-2019 2:55pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Trudeau really managed to weather his own storm. Sad that others cant.

Socialists always gets away with it.
Their voter base is extremely stupid forgiving

Bigbagofcans · 17-10-2019 3:03pm

Cultural appropriation y'all.

biko · 17-10-2019 3:08pm

Bigbagofcans wrote: »

Cultural appropriation y'all.

Saw a Japanese guy in an Irish pub playing the bodhran

Had to rip it from his grasp.
So incredibly racist!

Fart · 17-10-2019 3:18pm

Robert Downey Jr. next?

Bigbagofcans · 17-10-2019 3:23pm

biko wrote: »

Saw a Japanese guy in an Irish pub playing the bodhran

Had to rip it from his grasp.
So incredibly racist!

How dare he!

I wore cornrows recently cos the '90s are back in vogue and I got my hair pulled

(not really. Cornrows aren't my thang.)

We have so much freedom these days but yet we don't and have to watch everything we do or say in case someone gets offended.

I'd be more liberal than conservative, but this getting offended by everything is really annoying.

Thelonious Monk · 17-10-2019 3:26pm

I honestly think it's people getting offended at people supposedly getting offended who aren't getting offended in the first place that is the problem here

JohnnyFlash · 17-10-2019 3:29pm

It’s safe to say we’ve all gone blackface at one stage or another over the years. When’s this witch hunt going to end?

One of my good friends dressed up as a Nigerian woman in Aldi for a Halloween party a few years back. Had a little miniature trolley, two cushions shoved down the arse of a massive pair of jeans, and kept going around the party saying ‘move out of my way’.

The dude is now a TD. Will his career be over if and when the video of this is released?

MetzgerMeister · 17-10-2019 3:34pm

On one hand I think he should have stood his ground and not left his job. The perpetually offended are a bunch of entitled social justice warriors and millennial w@nkers. They are anything but social.

On the other hand, Atlantic's main stream of income is more than likely from these people given the artists on the label and there would be boycotting of their releases if he didn't step down.

As Rage Against the Machine said - The land of the free? Whoever told you that was your enemy

Thelonious Monk · 17-10-2019 3:36pm

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

It’s safe to say we’ve all gone blackface at one stage or another over the years. When’s this witch hunt going to end?

One of my good friends dressed up as a Nigerian woman in Aldi for a Halloween party a few years back. Had a little miniature trolley, two cushions shoved down the arse of a massive pair of jeans, and kept going around the party saying ‘move out of my way’.

The dude is now a TD. Will his career be over if and when the video of this is released?

Don't think it would end his career in Ireland, it would in UK or America though. Bit of a stupid racist costume though, no need for it.

MetzgerMeister · 17-10-2019 3:44pm

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Bit of a stupid racist costume though, no need for it.

It seems that it's not ok for a white person to dress up as a black person but the other way around isn't an issue.

How many times has anyone heard anything about the film White Chicks being racist??? Not even once I'll bet.

jam_mac_jam · 17-10-2019 3:46pm

biko wrote: »

Socialists always gets away with it.
Their voter base is extremely stupid forgiving

Go and look up socialist in a dictionary as you have obviously not a notion of what the word means.

Thelonious Monk · 17-10-2019 3:47pm

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

It seems that it's not ok for a white person to dress up as a black person but the other way around isn't an issue.

How many times has anyone heard anything about the film White Chicks being racist??? Not even once I'll bet.

Black people don't have a history of enslaving and treating white people like vermin. If blacking up is offensive to them you probably shouldn't do it. White people dgaf about black people whiteing up, and that's fine.

punisher5112 · 17-10-2019 3:48pm

Such load of rubbish.....

It's like saying if father Ted were still alive he would have to do the same for doing the Chinese impression.

punisher5112 · 17-10-2019 3:49pm

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Black people don't have a history of enslaving and treating white people like vermin. If blacking up is offensive to them you probably shouldn't do it. White people dgaf about black people whiteing up, and that's fine.

They did to their own of course though....

Also I've come across many a racist black person...

Also us Irish owe them nothing but many seem to think we do....

MetzgerMeister · 17-10-2019 3:49pm

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Black people don't have a history of enslaving and treating white people like vermin. If blacking up is offensive to them you probably shouldn't do it. White people dgaf about black people whiteing up, and that's fine.

So every white person alive today has to pay for the sins of the people who enslaved black people?

May aswell make all Austrians and Germans pay for the sins of Hitler in that case.

What you've said there is a double standard.

Omackeral · 17-10-2019 3:50pm

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Black people don't have a history of enslaving and treating white people like vermin

Neither does my family but my cousin dressed up as BA Baracas in 1992. Is he scum? I pity the fool who says he is.

Ready4Boarding · 17-10-2019 3:50pm

It’s safe to say we’ve all gone blackface at one stage or another over the years.

The thought of wearing blackface has never even crossed my mind.

kwestfan08 · 17-10-2019 3:51pm

Like seriously, how hard is it to not black up? At no point when you're putting the face paint on do you not think, maybe no, maybe I dont need to be doing this.

Omackeral · 17-10-2019 3:51pm

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

So every white person alive today has to pay for the sins of the people who enslaved black people?

Imagine making your kids grow up doing this.

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punisher5112 · 17-10-2019 3:53pm

kwestfan08 wrote: »

Like seriously, how hard is it to not black up? At no point when you're putting the face paint on do you not think, maybe no, maybe I dont need to be doing this.

Free country and mostly a free world I see it as a non issue as is wanting to dress up as someone say you may idol ...

Skin colour is just that a colour and the human being behind that skin is exactly that so I see them as equal as I do Asian, Eskimos and German....

Thelonious Monk · 17-10-2019 3:53pm

Omackeral wrote: »

Neither does my family but my cousin dressed up as BA Baracas in 1992. Is he scum? I pity the fool who says he is.

No, but this is Ireland and we didn't have such a globalised society in 1992 we were more insular and there were no black people here. I probably wouldn't do it in 2019 though.
Some black people might be offended by it, so probably best avoided to black up, who cares, I don't know why people are so offended by not being able to do this without a bit of a furore.

kwestfan08 · 17-10-2019 3:57pm

punisher5112 wrote: »

Free country and mostly a free world I see it as a non issue as is wanting to dress up as someone say you may idol ...

Skin colour is just that a colour and the human being behind that skin is exactly that so I see them as equal as I do Asian, Eskimos and German....

You can easily dress up as RUN DMC without blacking up. It's an adidas tracksuit and
and over sized chain ffs.

Would walk down any predominantly black neighbourhood dressed as Kanye West say then? If it's a non issue surely there would be no repercussions?

Omackeral · 17-10-2019 3:58pm

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

No, but this is Ireland and we didn't have such a globalised society in 1992 we were more insular and there were no black people here. I probably wouldn't do it in 2019 though.

Ooh ahh Paul McGrath doesn't exist

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Some black people might be offended by it, so probably best avoided to black up, who cares, I don't know why people are so offended by not being able to do this without a bit of a furore.

Aren't we so good protecting them

MetzgerMeister · 17-10-2019 3:59pm

kwestfan08 wrote: »

You can easily dress up as RUN DMC without blacking up. It's an adidas tracksuit and
and over sized chain ffs.

You've just described Ali G

Bobblehats · 17-10-2019 4:01pm

Facism :eek:

17-10-2019 4:02pm

Ready4Boarding wrote: »

The thought of wearing blackface has never even crossed my mind.

I'm going to assume that you never thought about it because you feel superior to black people!!!!

Racist.

17-10-2019 4:03pm

I wonder if you dressed in black face and put whiteface makeup on to dress up as a racist black person, who would be offended first?

Effects · 17-10-2019 4:07pm

punisher5112 wrote: »

Skin colour is just that a colour and the human being behind that skin is exactly that so I see them as equal as I do Asian, Eskimos and German....

You sound completely fake. Enough with the racist terms.

17-10-2019 4:07pm

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Some black people might be offended by it, so probably best avoided to black up, who cares, I don't know why people are so offended by not being able to do this without a bit of a furore.

That is not my problem. If it is not my intention to offend and I altered my appearance to look like someone who I admire 7 years ago, I don't think I should lose my job.

Funny that this "appropriation" isn't an issue when a lad wants to wear a dress and piss in women's toilets. It's actually encouraged.

Maybe this lad should have claimed to have identified as black for the duration of the party.

17-10-2019 4:08pm

Effects wrote: »

You sound completely fake. Enough with the racist terms.

Can't tell if joking or not....

Thelonious Monk · 17-10-2019 4:13pm

Deleted User wrote: »

That is not my problem. If it is not my intention to offend and I altered my appearance to look like someone who I admire 7 years ago, I don't think I should lose my job.

Doesn't really matter what you think though does it

kowloon · 17-10-2019 4:13pm

Fart wrote: »

Robert Downey Jr. next?

17-10-2019 5:00pm

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Doesn't really matter what you think though does it

Of course it does. Oh is it because I said it wasn't my problem if some found offense in something I had done without any malice?

Exactly the same. Great comparison...:rolleyes:

B.A._Baracus · 17-10-2019 5:03pm

Omackeral wrote: »

I hate everyone in these situations. The dopes who do it knowing people will get offended and the dopes getting offended at it. Fcuk sake.

Think you just summed it up perfectly.

Omackeral · 17-10-2019 5:25pm

Omackeral wrote: »

I hate everyone in these situations. The dopes who do it knowing people will get offended and the dopes getting offended at it. Fcuk sake.

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

Think you just summed it up perfectly.

Thanks B.A.

Omackeral wrote: »

Neither does my family but my cousin dressed up as BA Baracas in 1992. Is he scum? I pity the fool who says he is.

Sorry about the cuz, he was 8.

punisher5112 · 17-10-2019 5:28pm

I dressed up as a black ghost before when I was a child.... It was that or go as a multicoloured sheet....

I liked the black sheet as nobody could see me or well I as a child thought that....

Paddy Cow · 17-10-2019 6:27pm

Immortal Starlight wrote: »

Stupid to leave his job because of this. He should have shown a bit of backbone and stayed.

Despite what his statement says, no way was it his decision to leave such a high profile, high paying job

Fann Linn · 17-10-2019 6:34pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I wonder if you dressed in black face and put whiteface makeup on to dress up as a racist black person, who would be offended first?

If Sinead O Carroll from the Journal was reporting it would be described as 'a person of colour face'.

Such utter bullsh1t this pc madness.

Mysterypunter · 17-10-2019 6:41pm

One of my mates was a cricketer, and he asked me why I played, I replied, I was the black sheep of the family, and he said he was the white sheep of his family. I am still laughing at that answer. He was a big black dude, with a London/Bajan accent, funny out. People who are looking to be offended always will be.

gormdubhgorm · 17-10-2019 6:44pm

Jayus, it is lucky the pasty Irish don't need black face

Irish Guitarist · 17-10-2019 7:25pm

It seems they've gotten more offended at what people do at parties since the 1970s. Here's Jimmy Page and his 13 year old 'girlfriend' Lori Maddox at a party thrown by Atlantic Records.

Atlantic Records boss steps down over black face

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