Is that Ranger Derek Holland in the first picture?
@ 10:41 am on November 3, 2009
I think the best part of the 1st photo is seeing Ranger pitcher Derek Holland… He seems to be enjoying the off-season!!
@ 10:51 am on November 3, 2009
@DP yes.
Who cares? There are plenty of African Americans with her who don’t seem to mind. I realize that mole hill —> mountain is Deadspin’s MO but that doesn’t mean it’s a good idea.
@ 10:57 am on November 3, 2009
Sure looks like Derek Holland to me.
@ 11:00 am on November 3, 2009
I think there’s a distinction between merely wearing black makeup and playing a minstrel in blackface. I mean hell, white people can’t dress up as black celebrities for Halloween?
@ 11:24 am on November 3, 2009
I want an investigation into which Cheerleaders have fake tans (among other things), wouldn’t a fake tan be along the same lines?
@ 11:56 am on November 3, 2009
I don’t see a problem here, other than that people are trying to make a problem where there isn’t one.
@ 12:11 pm on November 3, 2009
Oh it’s an issue alright. But in addition to the the blackface are the 2 African American women posing next to her. Guess those two don’t understand their own history. That’s a shame.
@ 2:39 pm on November 3, 2009
There was a Wayans bros. movie called White Chicks that was entirely about two black guys (the Wayans bros. themselves) dressing up as, wait for it, white chicks. But a white chick can’t dress up as a black guy?
@ 3:10 pm on November 3, 2009
black body makeup =/= minstrel blackface.
it’s halloween, get over it.
@ 4:11 pm on November 3, 2009
Ask the kids today what the word “minstrel” means and they’ll tell you it has something to do with “that time of the month”.
@ 5:10 pm on November 3, 2009
Much ado about nothing. Get a life people. Really? I mean, seriously? I want to know if someone has setup a site on her behalf. I would sign the petition to tell everyone to shut up. You want to eliminate racism? Stop crying racism where there is none! It is like the boy who cried, “Wolf!” It is one thing when it is real. It is another when it isn’t. Take the Louisiana justice of the peace – please take him away. That was real racism. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery unless you are a white person imitating a black one. Yes, I am white. but I would have no objection to a person of any race dressing up as any white person for Halloween.
What does that say about our society when someone can’t have some clean fun without someone taking offense to it. It is time to quit coddling someone simply because we might offend them. You’re going to offend someone simply because you exist. Should we kill ourselves so we don’t offend them? I think not.
@ 6:08 pm on November 3, 2009
@Toni – or maybe the fact that the two black women didn’t seem to take issue with it should tell you something about how offensive it was. There was clearly no malicious intent. People dress up like celebrities for Halloween all the time. If a white person wants to dress up as a black person, the costume isn’t conveyed very clearly without the requisite makeup. Being “offended” seems to be more of a knee jerk reaction by the mostly white media than it is an issue with the black community.
@ 6:58 pm on November 3, 2009
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Is that Ranger Derek Holland in the first picture?
I think the best part of the 1st photo is seeing Ranger pitcher Derek Holland… He seems to be enjoying the off-season!!
@DP yes.
Who cares? There are plenty of African Americans with her who don’t seem to mind. I realize that mole hill —> mountain is Deadspin’s MO but that doesn’t mean it’s a good idea.
Sure looks like Derek Holland to me.
I think there’s a distinction between merely wearing black makeup and playing a minstrel in blackface. I mean hell, white people can’t dress up as black celebrities for Halloween?
I want an investigation into which Cheerleaders have fake tans (among other things), wouldn’t a fake tan be along the same lines?
I don’t see a problem here, other than that people are trying to make a problem where there isn’t one.
Oh it’s an issue alright. But in addition to the the blackface are the 2 African American women posing next to her. Guess those two don’t understand their own history. That’s a shame.
There was a Wayans bros. movie called White Chicks that was entirely about two black guys (the Wayans bros. themselves) dressing up as, wait for it, white chicks. But a white chick can’t dress up as a black guy?
black body makeup =/= minstrel blackface.
it’s halloween, get over it.
Ask the kids today what the word “minstrel” means and they’ll tell you it has something to do with “that time of the month”.
Much ado about nothing. Get a life people. Really? I mean, seriously? I want to know if someone has setup a site on her behalf. I would sign the petition to tell everyone to shut up. You want to eliminate racism? Stop crying racism where there is none! It is like the boy who cried, “Wolf!” It is one thing when it is real. It is another when it isn’t. Take the Louisiana justice of the peace – please take him away. That was real racism. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery unless you are a white person imitating a black one. Yes, I am white. but I would have no objection to a person of any race dressing up as any white person for Halloween.
What does that say about our society when someone can’t have some clean fun without someone taking offense to it. It is time to quit coddling someone simply because we might offend them. You’re going to offend someone simply because you exist. Should we kill ourselves so we don’t offend them? I think not.
@Toni – or maybe the fact that the two black women didn’t seem to take issue with it should tell you something about how offensive it was. There was clearly no malicious intent. People dress up like celebrities for Halloween all the time. If a white person wants to dress up as a black person, the costume isn’t conveyed very clearly without the requisite makeup. Being “offended” seems to be more of a knee jerk reaction by the mostly white media than it is an issue with the black community.