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Originally Posted by sealbeater
There was never a time in history that blackface wasn't insulting to Black people.
The fact that the oppressed people of the time were able to seperate the privileged man from the System doesn't make it harder to judge the System from our time.
I don't think it's hard to judge another time at all. Only the details change, the story pretty much stays the same.
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Hmmm. Are you really suggesting that Shakespeare's play "Othello", the title role of which would certainly have been played by a blacked-up actor in Elizabethan England, is demeaning to black people? I don't think many people would agree with you if that is your view. Nor do I think that the (very few) black people in England at the time would have considered themselves to be "oppressed"; it does not appear to have been a racist society, from what I've read of the period.