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Dale Neiburg

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20. Yes, circa 1965

Sat Feb 2, 2019, 05:07 PM

Feb 2019

In an amateur variety show in upcountry South Carolina.

(At about that same time frame "The Black and White Minstrel Show" was popular in the UK on BBC Television. As the name implies, some performers wore blackface. Some traditional forms, like some traditions of morris dance, used blackface centuries ago, possibly originally as disguise.)

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I have never seen anyone in black face. Have you? [View all] BigmanPigman Feb 2019 OP

don't you remember the big scandal when jodymarie aimee Feb 2019 #1

Vaguely True Dough Feb 2019 #5

She dumped him. nt KWR65 Feb 2019 #23

Well, True Dough Feb 2019 #24

actually if you google the pic jodymarie aimee Feb 2019 #29

Oh yeah, I remember that. BigmanPigman Feb 2019 #10

Joni did it more than once.. jodymarie aimee Feb 2019 #15

1993, yup. n/t X_Digger Feb 2019 #19

Only on TV and via the internet True Dough Feb 2019 #2

Never, ever and I went to college in Va., grad school in DC. appalachiablue Feb 2019 #3

Can't say I've ever seen it, at least live. GWC58 Feb 2019 #65

I grew up in a city outside NYC that was actually famous for its racism. I have seen many Squinch Feb 2019 #4

I have. At a Halloween party in El Paso, Texas around 1983. ZZenith Feb 2019 #6

Ted Danson took a lot of heat for wearing blackface John Fante Feb 2019 #7

In real life, no, and I lived in Florida from 1970-2012. DemocratSinceBirth Feb 2019 #8

Never ever. n/t pnwmom Feb 2019 #9

In person? Nope. Codeine Feb 2019 #11

Not in person Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2019 #12

Yes. Halloween two years ago. DURHAM D Feb 2019 #13

Wow! Anon-C Feb 2019 #31

I remember seeing a minstrel show performed by teachers at my school in upstate NY about 1962 wishstar Feb 2019 #14

I also remember a Minstrel Show being performed sagesnow Feb 2019 #42

Yes, I have. Back in college there was a fraternity in a homecoming parade that had a bunch of dameatball Feb 2019 #16

No, never, thank goodness. Takket Feb 2019 #17

Once Yonnie3 Feb 2019 #18

Yes, circa 1965 Dale Neiburg Feb 2019 #20

Not blackface, but yellowface - Ms. Toad Feb 2019 #21

Just this guy. eppur_se_muova Feb 2019 #22

It pays to remember what AITF was. Igel Feb 2019 #50

Not in real life. I grew up in Metro Detroit area. An area HS principal irisblue Feb 2019 #25

Ann Arbor resident here. I read about that incident with muntrv Feb 2019 #52

Metro Detroit& SE Michigan was/is/has a bad history with overt racism irisblue Feb 2019 #55

No, and I grew up in Baton Rouge. I'm trying to remember if Croney Feb 2019 #26

No. But white people in blackface don't normally come around me ... EffieBlack Feb 2019 #27

Yes. I live in the South. Blue_true Feb 2019 #28

Al Jolson COLGATE4 Feb 2019 #30

Bing Crosby in the "Abraham" number in "Holiday Inn." stopbush Feb 2019 #32

Yes on halloween riverwalker Feb 2019 #33

I grew up in the south. Tipperary Feb 2019 #34

There's pictures of my father wearing black face paint as camouflage in the jungles of Vietnam Calista241 Feb 2019 #35

Halloween party around 1980, someone came as Richard Pryor with his hair on fire. Liberty Belle Feb 2019 #36

No. MaryMagdaline Feb 2019 #37

Old (very old) Al Jolson movies NastyRiffraff Feb 2019 #38

A white man in black face playing a black man and a black man in white face playing a white guy McCamy Taylor Feb 2019 #39

Yes Lithos Feb 2019 #40

As a matter of fact I have. When I was growing up in a small Texas theophilus Feb 2019 #41

I have never understood why white people sometimes wear black face. MrScorpio Feb 2019 #43

No, because I've always recognized it as being racist. doompatrol39 Feb 2019 #44

Maybe on TV in the 60s spinbaby Feb 2019 #45

In the early 1950s my mother wore blackface cyclonefence Feb 2019 #46

Eddy Cantor in the Thirties. no_hypocrisy Feb 2019 #47

Not ever, not once. maxsolomon Feb 2019 #48

Not where I live sakabatou Feb 2019 #49

I guess you're too young to remember the Phila Mummers Parade in the 60s? Demit Feb 2019 #51

I am glad to say that stopped before I was old enough BigmanPigman Feb 2019 #53

I'm glad too. Demit Feb 2019 #67

white members of the krewe of zulu wear blackface rampartc Feb 2019 #54

Dan Aykroyd in "Trading Places." Not in real life. muntrv Feb 2019 #56

In person? No, never. TDale313 Feb 2019 #57

1960 something mainstreetonce Feb 2019 #58

Growing up in the UK VMA131Marine Feb 2019 #59

I knew an acquaintance who went in drag as ''Oprah Winfrey'', for Halloween. In '86 YOHABLO Feb 2019 #60

I Have. Primary School 1965 or 1966 Vogon_Glory Feb 2019 #61

I wore black face in a minstrel show. Chipper Chat Feb 2019 #64

Halloween1950s mainstreetonce Feb 2019 #62

Just my Dad... kentuck Feb 2019 #63

No, but did see KKK - whole families with little kids dressed in robes @ 1980ish in Birmingham Laura PourMeADrink Feb 2019 #66

Then there's Rachel Dolezal kskiska Feb 2019 #68

Ted Danson once. jalan48 Feb 2019 #69

I have not and I grew up in North Carolina. musicblind Feb 2019 #70

Yes, in college at a Halloween party in early 2000s Amishman Feb 2019 #71

Tropic Thunder NotASurfer Feb 2019 #72

I don't have a specific memory of it Awsi Dooger Feb 2019 #73