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Originally Posted by HarryT
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.
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Thanks Harry.
That was a good example of for the point I was clumsily trying to make.