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riverwalker

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33. Yes on halloween

Reply to BigmanPigman (Original post)

Sat Feb 2, 2019, 05:44 PM

Feb 2019

A white woman dressed as Aunt Jemima.

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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