White performers paint face Black to impersonate Jackson Five. Offensive?

[QUOTE="Faber_Fighter"]No it wasn't racist. What else were they suppose to do, wear masks? Do the skit without anything on their faces so it wouldn't make any sense? Honestly who cares, it's not like they put black paint onto their faces just to laugh at black people, they were simply trying to fit into the character. Next thing you know, using a black pen will be racist because the ink will portray the skin colour of black people.weezyfb

ROFL :lol: as if an American knows what goes on within Australia, get over yourselves it was done in good taste as a twenty years ago we did it, twenty years later we did it.

And what is black facing ? Never heard of it and im a very informed Australian. Only in AMerica i suppose

OH and FYI i watched it live on tv and not once did i get the racist vibe out of it, seriously the people around here

This is rediculous. This is not racist. Anybody who is offended by this needs to get real.

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Yeah, that's so racist. :roll:

Tjeremiah1988

No, just no. A good tribute band does not turn up looking like rednecks if they're impersonating The Beatles.

At least thats how I see it.

[QUOTE="Faber_Fighter"]No it wasn't racist. What else were they suppose to do, wear masks? Do the skit without anything on their faces so it wouldn't make any sense? Honestly who cares, it's not like they put black paint onto their faces just to laugh at black people, they were simply trying to fit into the character. Next thing you know, using a black pen will be racist because the ink will portray the skin colour of black people.weezyfb

ROFL :lol: as if an American knows what goes on within Australia, get over yourselves it was done in good taste as a twenty years ago we did it, twenty years later we did it.

And what is black facing ? Never heard of it and im a very informed Australian. Only in AMerica i suppose

OH and FYI i watched it live on tv and not once did i get the racist vibe out of it, seriously the people around here

chris_yz80

Apparently the majority of Americans don't even know where Australians are on the world map, and yet they claim Aussies are racists. Really, pot calling the kettle black. the_kidisblack

Apparently the majority of Americans don't even know where Australians are on the world map, and yet they claim Aussies are racists. Really, pot calling the kettle black. the_kidisblack

Would have been racist if they dressed up as them but kept their faces white. Brainkiller05

[QUOTE="the_kidisblack"]Apparently the majority of Americans don't even know where Australians are on the world map, and yet they claim Aussies are racists. Really, pot calling the kettle black. KungfuKitten

[QUOTE="Brainkiller05"]Would have been racist if they dressed up as them but kept their faces white. KungfuKitten

[QUOTE="KungfuKitten"][QUOTE="the_kidisblack"]Apparently the majority of Americans don't even know where Australians are on the world map, and yet they claim Aussies are racists. Really, pot calling the kettle black. LJS9502_basic

[QUOTE="LJS9502_basic"][QUOTE="KungfuKitten"] I agree with You If there is one place where racism is very much alive... I don't understand what's offensive about this.KungfuKitten

[QUOTE="KungfuKitten"][QUOTE="LJS9502_basic"]The first step to racism/hate is believing generalizations about a group. Just something to think about.LJS9502_basic

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[QUOTE="KungfuKitten"] I don't believe that the majority of americans don't know where australians are on the world map, just to clear things up. I was agreeing with the pot calling the kettle blue. (i don't want to get sued in the future for writing this.)KungfuKitten

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[QUOTE="LJS9502_basic"]You generalized the US as ONE place (which we know isn't true) where racism is alive.

LJS9502_basic

*sigh* you know the second I saw this topic I immediately said "i bet most of the votes will say no if it asks if its racist" well I say yes it is offensive and yes it is racist. by the way someone said they said it wasn't meant to offend, but how do you know they were telling the truth no one tells the truth much anymore.

*sigh* you know the second I saw this topic I immediately said "i bet most of the votes will say no if it asks if its racist" well I say yes it is offensive and yes it is racist. by the way someone said they said it wasn't meant to offend, but how do you know they were telling the truth no one tells the truth much anymore.

darksword55

After reading through alot of these post. It seems that alot of users are saying that black people are calling foul for this act; when in reality the media is the one calling foul. I feel that, black people, are blamed far too often for playing the race card. When it is usually the media that stirs up controversy. Race isn't really as big as an issue that the media makes it out to be. Black people do go around everyday blaming the white man for their problems.

From my experience its really only the older generation of black people that find alot of things racist, and how can you blame them they had to go through the civil rights movement, and had to deal with real racism back in their day.