OK. Everybody out of the closet who wore blackface in the 70's 80's and 90's. We need no more

[allgood33]

surprises. Let's get it all out in the open now so tht we can move forward. Who were you then? Who are you now? What have you been doing in the intervening years?

[TCJ70]

1. "Who were you then? Who are you now?"

Woah...forgiveness? Have you seen this board over the last week? Apparently some people around here don't think people change.

You're right, of course. It definitely matters who someone is now opposed to who they were 30+ years ago.

[theboss]

2. Before I forgive, an apology and an explanation are in order

Not:

It was totally me.
Hold on. It wasn't me. I was thinking of a different time I wore blackface.
Because I totally wore blackface just not next to a guy in a hood.
Also, where did you get that?
Wanna see me moonwalk?

[TCJ70]

4. For sure. For what it's worth...

...the walkback was too much for me. Northam should be gone.

[delisen]

3. Are we going to bar them from voting Democratic

or create a third party or maybe a category of Registered Democrats -good enough to vote but never to hold office.

meanwhile Donald Trumps still in office, children can't be reunited with families, and impoverishment continues as a de facto national economic policy

[crazycatlady]

5. what about yellowface for a flower Halloween costume?

[Prosper]

6. Unforgivable.

The most offensie irredeemable sense of the picture on Northam's yearbook page is the pairing of an innocent with the KKK. There is no question that the KKK represented ethnic cleasning, suffering and death. Just like removing of offensive remembrances of slavery that picture should be identified as an innocent with a murderer. It is a reminder similar to a holocaust depiction.

[bigbrother05]

7. Not in the 50's or 60's either

And that's from someone that grew up in Oklahoma.

Once in Jr. High for a class play in mid 60's was "Mr. Interlocutor" and exchanged some really corny jokes (librarian wrote them) with "Mr. Bones", but no blackface.

[northoftheborder]

8. Can one be redeemed for a black-face infraction in the 1940's?

Actually, this was not very far from the vaudeville days where black-face entertainment was common. This was long before it was considered to be negative; thoughtless, maybe, but not criminal.

[ExciteBike66]

9. I was a Jose Canseco baseball card for Halloween one year.

But it didn't involve my face, we used a poster of the guy for the front.

What I should have done was tape a baseball to the top of my head, but that hadn't happened yet...

[TlalocW]

10. I dressed as a Mexican in college

Okay, technically a dead Mexican.
Technically a skeleton in traditional late 1800s/early 1900s Mexican peon garb.
And I went to a Hispanic Student Association Halloween dance.

And I won first prize in the costume contest because it was an homage to Jose Guadalupe Posada's work.



TlalocW

[2naSalit]

11. IN the 1970s I dressed up

as a man for a costume party does that count? I did wear false facial hair.

[DFW]

12. Nope. Not once.

As a token of their respect for my decision, neither of my college roomies walked around in white face, either.

Actually, I don't think any of us was aware that people still did that kind of thing any more.

[jalan48]

13. Meanwhile our planet is burning up. Our grandkids and great grandkids will be shaking their heads in

disbelief when they read about what we were doing in 2019.

[dcbuckeye]

14. Surely there must be some GOP governors who did the same thing

I hope some Dem operatives are looking at yearbooks of southern GOP governors and other officials. We shouldn't just be taking this sitting down.

[Revanchist]

15. When I was a kid I once wore a Wolfman costume that included Brown facepaint

Does that count? Only time I wore black makeup was either Alice Cooper or Peter Criss costumes.

[theaocp]

16. I painted my whole head and face black in the 90s

as the shadow under the cap of a psychedelic mushroom costume for Halloween. Most people just thought I was a chef.

[maveric]

17. I wore black Alice Cooper eye make-up at a dance in 1972.

That’s the extent of my blackface.

[JuJuYoshida]

18. All I know is it was pretty accepted when Al Jolson did it in "The Jazz Singer"

other than that, I can't think of a single instance where it was acceptable

[MicaelS]

19. I understood Blackface was not acceptable ...

By the time I was 10 years old back in '67. Not sure how I knew, but I knew. There is no excuse for Blackface in the '80s. None.