Blackface in Modern Times

Honestly, since when don't white folk know that painting their faces to mimic or look like Black people is NOT going to go over well with Black people? Since when did they start thinking that would be a cool and fun idea? Well it's obvious, since we started letting things like that pass without going upside their heads or saying a damn thing about it.

They have been arguing for the past couple of years for their right to use the N word. Why, well because we as Black people still use it. What they don't seem to get is that when we say it, it's ignorant, but when they say it, it's like lighting a stick of dynamite and putting it in their mouths. It's not just ignorant when they say it, it's racial.

Now some have seemed to have moved on from that fight to this bullshit. Olivia Mahon, a 21year old white girl from Australia, apparently "in love" with Africa threw an African themed party and wanted her guests to come dressed in "African themed clothing". While she herself dressed as Queen Cleopatra, many of her guests came dressed like savages and primates, one came cloaked in a KKK costume (because nothing says Africa like the Klan), and some came in blackface including her own parents. Read the article and see the pictures from the party here...

African Themed 21st Birthday Party

Now I know a few Aussies and they are the loveliest people you could ever want to meet, but apparently their country's racial sensitivity just doesn't fucking exist. Now I was wondering if this could be passed off as just not knowing? Could the excuse be made that they are just unaware at just how some people, namely Black people would find this shit offensive? Just when I was about to give little Olivia and her countrymen a break, I thought of the Aboriginal people. Treated much the same way Native Americans were treated here, if you were of Aboriginal descent, you were a second class citizen, even though you and your people lived there well before the British colonized Australia back in 1788. They didn't have the right to an education, they worked for rations, needed government approval to marry, and were forced to live on reservations.

That's in their history, it's in the DNA of Australia and yet little Olivia and her parents saw absolutely nothing wrong with dressing up as "Africans" (complete with blackface), allowing her guests to show up in racially charged outfits, and partying the night away. So on that note, not only do they NOT get a pass, a break, or anything else, I think they all need to be educated on racial insensitivity. OR they should be beaten all upside the head and neck until they understand that some shit regarding other races just won't be tolerated. I don't condone violence but this nonsense deserves going to the extremes.