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Where do we draw the line on "blackface?"?

Asked by kritiper (25757points) November 19th, 2018

Al Rokker dresses up as a white guy but doesn’t paint his face white and no one says anything.
Some teachers here in Idaho dress up in serapes and sombreros, others as a wall on the border and people complain. (They didn’t paint their faces!!)
On TV is a commercial where two people are looking at a pizza baking in a oven. The guy is wearing a red and green (with white eagle) Mexican wrestling mask and no one breathes a word. (Obviously, his face isn’t painted, but it is covered with a Mexican mask complete with Mexican colors.)
So where do you think the line of what is acceptable and what isn’t be drawn? When has complaining on the subject of “blackface” gone too far?

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