Atlantic Records boss steps down over black face

Meh I think I am going to dress the whole family up as the Jackson 5 for Halloween. Though this will be a challenge given we will not just have to black face but given four of us are female - and one of the females is only a few months old - we will have to adult one of them up and cross gender dress the other three.

I predict that no matter how many houses we call to for sweets - how many roads we walk down - or which house party we go to - not a single person along the way will take a shred of offense to us. I will report back either way in early November. If I forget - remind me.

Post a picture of us doing it on twitter however - and I somewhat expect the mob of the offended will descend. The twitter-verse is not the real world and the people on there do not appear to be the people we meet every day in our actual lives.

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?

I wonder if you could expand upon Sheldon's (Big Bang Theory) Doppler Effect Costume by getting a group of people to black and white face themselves in such a way that when they stand in formation - they show the doppler effect.

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

If blacking up is offensive to them you probably shouldn't do it.

If I stopped doing everything that some group of online people feel offended by I am not sure what I would be doing in my life any more. My relationship would have to end for a start. Many of my hobbies and social outlets would quickly follow too. Not to mention I would have to withdraw from many of things I am politically active in. And I would probably have to stop teaching and training my kids the things I spend a lot of time teaching and training them. Oh and I would have to stop eating meat too.

Once you start down the road of per-empting others offense by curtailing your own self - where do you then stop? I do not care if online people get offended by my life and choices - as it is only online people who ever seem to care.

Mostly - I mentioned awhile back I was playing with my kids in the grass in the park one day. A little old woman came up to shriek her opinion at me. I as an adult - it seems - should not be rolling around the grass with kids acting like a child - but should be standing back acting like a grown up role model. Seems adults having fun with their kids offended her. Perhaps someone should show her twitter.

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.

Who said anything about "need"? There is no "need" to dress up at all if you are going to go down that road. When I am dressing up for a fancy dress party in any kind of costume - I do not find myself saying "maybe no I don't need to be doing this."

The question should be "Is there a reason I need _not_ to be doing this?" and so far given the number of these threads I have followed - I am not seeing one yet.