Montreal university students don blackface (and display Jamaican stereotypes)

[alp227]

Several students painted their faces black and dressed up as Jamaican sprinters for a frosh week event. (Courtesy of YouTube)

A frosh event at a Montreal university is being characterized as racist after students painted themselves in blackface.

Students at the Université de Montréal's business school dressed up as Jamaican sprinters, with black paint covering their skin, for a frosh-week event.

One witness, who is of Jamaican descent, said he felt uncomfortable and was shocked to hear some students chanting, "Smoke more weed."

McGill law student Anthony Morgan, who happened to be on the campus at the time, says the students were doing the chanting in Jamaican accents.

full: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2011/09/15/blackface-universite-montreal.html

[JustAnotherGen]

1. What a bunch of

Dumb asses.

[Blue_Tires]

2. How does anyone on campus not know how tasteless this is in the present day?

And I still never got the 'appeal' of why they do it; but EVERY semester some university somewhere that should know better has an incident

[KamaAina]

3. More Montrealers in blackface

these are at a hockey game in Boston, allegedly supporting their Canadiens' own black player, outstanding defenceman PK Subban!!

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Sv2kdfzI2zo/S5sax_ULZOI/AAAAAAAAAEU/giQ5YmZ-3HQ/s320/habs+fans+blackface.jpg

[RaleighNCDUer]

4. Everything about that is objectionable

except the "smoke more weed" part.

If these assholes had smoked more weed they'd be less likely to do shit like this.

[malaise]

5. WTF?????

Bet they pay for this