Comments on: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader (Allegedly?) in Blackface

By: Brandon

Brandon — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:58:52 +0000

@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.

By: John

John — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:08:41 +0000

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.

By: DMBurrows

DMBurrows — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:10:36 +0000

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”.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:11:56 +0000

black body makeup =/= minstrel blackface.

it’s halloween, get over it.

By: Doug

Doug — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:10:16 +0000

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?

By: Toni

Toni — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:39:36 +0000

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.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:11:33 +0000

I don’t see a problem here, other than that people are trying to make a problem where there isn’t one.

By: MIssingDots

MIssingDots — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:56:04 +0000

I want an investigation into which Cheerleaders have fake tans (among other things), wouldn’t a fake tan be along the same lines?

By: Gwyon

Gwyon — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:24:41 +0000

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?

By: Marty

Marty — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:00:44 +0000

Sure looks like Derek Holland to me.