Yup. If you are a dem: Blackface = bad Drowning white woman in car in Chappaquidick = Not good but not a disqualifier.
One of my favorites was when the Puerto Rican lady was having a baby when they were stuck in the elevator and the black guy (cast as well educated and arrogant) told the lady the "her people" tended to have more babies than they could afford. Archie looks at him and says: "Now ain't that the black calling the kettle pot".
Think the uproar Archie would cause now. Different times is all. Maybe 50 yrs from now just thinking it or even buying black paint will be a punishable offense. You know how many times I’ve heard Sp*c? In the end I’m glad I was taught the “ sticks and stones may break my bones but blah blah blah” .
You are really into this blackface. First you were plastering images of people in blackface everywhere, now you are upset to find out there are consequences to wearing blackface. It is almost as if someone likes to play dress up on the weekends. For me blackface is a non-starter. I don't really give a shit if someone wants to do it, but I don't condone it either.
The point I have been making is that cultural norms have changed over 40 years. At the time many these people were appearing at parties in blackface it was considered entertaining rather than offensive. Now in our snowflake, be-offended-at-everything society the prevalent current view is that blackface is extremely offensive. The next step which -- we now see in motion -- is the mob mentality demanding the firing of every teacher, public office holder and employee who ever appeared in blackface, knew anyone appearing in blackface, had any involvement in administering a university which had blackface photos in yearbooks, or is married to anyone who appeared in blackface. Where does this insanity end?
When I saw you responded, I though I was going to smoke you pretty good, but it was a decent response. The reason you are seeing this mob mentality is because some democrat, somewhere has a picture of a prominent republican in blackface. They are laying the foundation that if a person was in blackface, they have to go. They will release the images of the republican and demand he step down. It will be coming in the next few weeks. Mark my words. They did a similar thing with Al Franken. They wanted to set the precedent that sexual allegations got you removed. They laid that the foundation with Franken, then demanded a scalp with Kavanaugh, although Trump was likely the target. That kind of thing never seems to stick to Trump, so they went after Kavanaugh. Now this lieutenant governor in Virginia has been hit with it, and it no longer suits their political needs so the dems did a 180 on the whole thing. It is really funny how that works, and the media never seems to point it out. The foot soldiers of the left aren't in on the master plan. They are useful idiots and when there masters tell them there is something they should be offended by, they obediently follow orders. These are the people who fill the echo chamber on twitter and other social media and cable news. We have several of them on this forum.
In support of your comments... Why aren't Democrats calling on Justin Fairfax to resign? https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/07/politics/justin-fairfax-sexual-assault-resignation/index.html Justin Fairfax, the lieutenant governor of Virginia, is facing a serious allegation that at the 2004 Democratic National Convention he sexually assaulted a woman. The accuser, Vanessa Tyson, has come forward, putting a name to her allegations. Fairfax has denied all of the allegations but also has, in at least one private meeting, savaged Tyson and those who support her. And yet, no major Democratic presidential candidate -- or other party leader -- has called for Fairfax's resignation. Instead they have, almost to a person, called for an investigation into the allegations. That stands in stark contrast to the rush of resignation calls for Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, also a Democrat, in the wake of a picture featuring two men -- one in blackface, the other in Ku Klux Klan robes -- appearing on his medical school yearbook page. Within 48 hours of the news breaking last Friday, every 2020 candidate (or would-be 2020 candidate) had called for Northam to step aside. (Northam initially said he was one of the two men in the photo, but later recanted.) Asked earlier this week about the allegations against Fairfax, a series of high-profile Democrats reiterated their call for Northam to resign but wouldn't engage on that possibility in regard to Fairfax. "We will learn more about that," Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D) said. "But it doesn't change the fact that Northam needs to resign." Why the obvious double standard? Particularly given that Democrats have adopted a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to those accused of sexual assault -- insisting that women coming forward to make these allegations should be believed. (California Sen. Kamala Harris, in explaining her vote against Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court, said this: "When Dr. Christine Blasey Ford came forward with serious and credible allegations of sexual assault, not only was she attacked by Senate Republicans, she was mocked by the President of the United States.") The answer on "why" is complicated, but comes down to two things: Politics and race. Let's start with the politics. One of the main reasons politicians were so quick to call for Northam's resignation over the blackface picture that he was/wasn't in was because Fairfax was waiting in the wings -- a 39-year-old, African-American rising star within the party. What better way to button up a racial scandal than to replace the blackface-wearing governor with a young black politician who is the descendant of Virginia slaves? (When Fairfax was sworn in as lieutenant governor, he had the papers freeing his great-great-great grandfather with him.) It was seen, rightly, by politicians and Democratic strategists as the most elegant possible solution to a very thorny political problem. There is no similarly simple solution to the allegations against Fairfax. In fact, it's all grown much more complicated, with Fairfax battling sexual assault allegations while not only Northam, but also state Attorney General Mark Herring, are dealing with blackface allegations from their pasts. Which leads me to the second major factor in the hesitancy to demand Fairfax's resignation. We have three Democratic politicians in deep, uh, stuff in Virginia at the moment: A black politician facing allegations that he forced a woman into unwanted sexual relations and two white politicians besieged not only by their own poor judgment on racial matters but also the long and ongoing troubles the Commonwealth has had with race. Virginia was the site of the Charlottesville white supremacist march in 2017 that left a counter-protester dead. Virginia was the site of the so-called "Massive Resistance"-- a movement led by Democratic Sen. Harry Byrd, Sr. aimed at using legislation to keep the Commonwealth's public schools from integrating. Virginia was home to the capital of the Confederacy. And on and on. Add all of that to Donald Trump in the White House -- and his clear use of racial animus for his own political gain -- and you are left with a toxic political stew. The simple fact here is this: There's no easy way out of this politically. The three top-ranking Democrats in the state -- including, in Fairfax and Herring, the two frontrunners for the 2021 Democratic gubernatorial nomination -- are all embroiled in scandals that could bring any or all three of them down. Given the uncertainty of what the "right" thing to do is, most Democratic politicians are trying to buy themselves some time to see how all this shakes out. One notable exception to this practiced silence on Fairfax is Democratic Virginia Rep. Don McEachin. "I think Justin has handled the situation poorly," McEachin, who is black, told CNN's Manu Raju. "One of the curses of being an African-American man in the United States is you don't get to play the angry black man."