Today's blackface FAIL comes to you from the heart of Northern California's "Emerald Triangle".

[KamaAina]

http://www.mercurynews.com/california/ci_24471547/blackface-performance-at-northern-california-students-fundraiser-draws

A performer donning blackface makeup at a Ferndale youth fundraiser sparked a sharp backlash this week, mirroring a national debate that emerged after celebrity Julianne Hough's highly publicized apology for darkening her skin to dress up as a popular television character.

The North Coast controversy erupted after circulation of a video of Saturday's event, featuring a man in blackface makeup and a dreadlock wig. Similar stories have made headlines across the nation, from Hough's much-maligned Halloween costume to three San Diego high school staff members who were suspended for donning blackface to dress up as members of the Jamaican bobsled team....

In 2008, then Ferndale High School Principal Sam Garamendi drew sharp criticism from students for removing a Confederate flag off a student's car that was parked on school grounds, sparking a school assembly to discuss the flags and why Garamendi believed they were inappropriate on school grounds.

A few years later, allegations surfaced about a number of Ferndale fans directing racial slurs at each other and using them to taunt opposing players and coaches during football games in 2008, 2010 and 2011. The accusations led to the football team being placed on probation for the 2012 season by the North Coast Section, the body that governs interscholastic athletics in Northern California.

[alcibiades_mystery]

1. Wait, there's a "national debate" about wearing blackface?

What's next, "a national debate" on whether Jews are really cheap, or Italians are really all mafiosi?

There's a fucking DEBATE about blackface? WHAT???