Is This Blackface? vol. Olympic Edition

[sfc415]

I'm not sure what they really feel about anything they put out these days (not that it matters because 100% of their non classic items are horrendous) . Just pointing out that they are definitely catering to the hip hop crowd to boost sales (which were relatively non existent until they hired their new designer a couple years ago)

I forgot what article it was, but it was talking about how a lot of brands that turned their backs on certain groups in the past (hip hop, working class whites in Europe, Asians, etc) saw their sales dropping year by year. The past few years they've all hired designers that try to appeal to those demographics, but it seems like they've only thought about "what can we put out that can sell?" Without any consultation with minorities, which is why things like this keep happening

While I absolutely hate all the new stuff LV is putting out now, I have to respect the fact that they made Virgil the head of LV. If you're going to cater to a demographic, you need representation from that demographic in the important positions of your company.

 

[SupremeBeing5]

I’ll stick to John Elliot.

 

[niceshoes247]

 

[niceshoes247]

 

[sfc415]

You know how irrelevant you have to be (in every aspect of life) in order to wear something like that for attention?

 

[niceshoes247]

I thought blacks and Latinos were in this together.

 

[sfc415]

I thought blacks and Latinos were in this together.

There's sellouts of all races that support Trump, unfortunately. Look at his administration; there's a bunch of black, Latino, and Asian bootlickers that think that supporting him makes them more "American" (aka accepted by white people), while those same white people view them as useful idiots

 

[DCAllAfrican]

I thought blacks and Latinos were in this together.

When has that ever been the case?

Every group is looking out for their own

 

[sfc415]

When has that ever been the case?

Every group is looking out for their own

This is a pretty big generalization. I've seen plenty of minorities sticking up for each other both historically and in recent years. I agree that people could do more, but not everyone is selfish and apathetic

 

[niceshoes247]

When has that ever been the case?

Every group is looking out for their own

 

[niceshoes247]

 

[mr s j king]

When has that ever been the case?

Every group is looking out for their own

Nope. Black people have always included other groups
Its the other groups that turn on us once they have got us to fight their fight for them

 

[njavier03]

posted this in the other thread.

what i don't understand is how the same people that feel victimized by the "higher end" brands/department stores even care to shop there. first off, i don't spend money on higher end brands like Gucci, LV, Prada, etc. but i did work at a Nordstrom a few years ago, so i know what the general clientele and employee is like. they're judgmental. they're sizing you up from head to toe. you can't tell me that you're that naive. what's the interest in buying these brands to begin with? to feel included? to think that wearing a Gucci hat screams you have money? personally, the flashier you are, the more i think you make poor financial decisions.

 

[sooperhooper]

When has that ever been the case?

Every group is looking out for their own

America has this 'thing' of how everything should be vs how it actually is.

We should all be together in solidarity but in actuality every person/race looks out for himself.

 

[hand2handking]

School Apologises After Children Perform Black History Month Poem in Blackface Masks

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...anta-georgia-kindezi-old-fourth-a8286561.html

A school in Atlanta has apologised after children performed a poem for Black History Month in blackface masks.

Pupils at Kindezi Old Fourth Ward Charter School recited Paul Laurence Dunbar’s 1896 poem “We Wear The Mask” while wearing black masks with exaggerated red lips and white eyes.

A video of the recital, which was performed by seven and eight-year-olds, has been viewed millions of times since it was posted on Facebook by a concerned parent last week.

Semone Banks, who shared the footage, said many mothers were “pissed” and that the school “has to do better”.

“Kindezi School is a great school and we are all like a big family, however this act was not acceptable,” she said. “I do understand that it is a poem, but the kids could have made up their own mask and used emojis or anything other than blackfaces.

“There is a big lesson to be learned here.”

The school subsequently apologised for the “hurt, anger, frustration and disappointment” caused by the performance.

It said an investigation was underway to ensure “this never happens again” and that teachers were being educated on cultural competency in race and racism in the US.

On Facebook, the teacher who organised the performance offered her “sincerest apologies to all that have been offended".

She said: “I understand the pain behind the concept of blackface and in no way was it my intent to be offensive, but to shed light on a part of our history that was not pretty."

We Wear The Mask poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar in full:

We wear the mask that grins and lies,

It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—

This debt we pay to human guile;

With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,

And mouth with myriad subtleties.

Why should the world be over-wise,

In counting all our tears and sighs?

Nay, let them only see us, while

We wear the mask.

We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries

To thee from tortured souls arise.

We sing, but oh the clay is vile

Beneath our feet, and long the mile;

But let the world dream otherwise,

We wear the mask!

 

[mangudai954]

Ehh I get why the masks were used after reading the poem. Its precarious though because they're little kids and it sounds like their parents didn't know they were going to use them.

 

[DCAllAfrican]

Some ideas pass too many sets of ADULT eyes/brains for them to be green lit.

WHO THOUGHT THAT WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA MAN

 

[njavier03]

just a thought...maybe they didn't think it was malicious? like they didn't intend it to be. sometimes insults aren't insults, and its only taken as an insult based on perspective. you also have to understand the context. i mean i get how it could've offended people, but it's not like it was used in a derogatory or intentionally offensive way.

 

[blastercombo]

Someone hit her with a truck

 

[blastercombo]

just a thought...maybe they didn't think it was malicious? like they didn't intend it to be. sometimes insults aren't insults, and its only taken as an insult based on perspective. you also have to understand the context. i mean i get how it could've offended people, but it's not like it was used in a derogatory or intentionally offensive way.

Lol stop

 

[beacon ave south]

School Apologises After Children Perform Black History Month Poem in Blackface Masks

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...anta-georgia-kindezi-old-fourth-a8286561.html

This happened in Atlanta of all places.

Mind is boggled.

 

[WASPS ANDD ASPS]

@ this whole page.

@ "mothers" were upset. Not "parents" were upset.

 

[hand2handking]

Louisiana Cops Dressed In Blackface In 1993 To Fool Drug Buyers In Black Neighborhoods
The Baton Rouge Police Department apologized for the “inappropriate” photos of the white undercover cops.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entr...ack-neighborhoods_us_5c62dc20e4b00ba63e4a9bab

Two white Baton Rouge, Louisiana, police narcotics investigators wore blackface in 1993 in an undercover operation to sell fake crack cocaine in predominantly black neighborhoods, the police department has acknowledged.

Local media outlet the Rouge Collection recently surfaced a Baton Rouge Police Department yearbook picture featuring two officers with their skin painted black, wearing flannels, hoodies and sunglasses. The photo is captioned “Soul brothers.”

The Rouge Collection identified one of the officers as Lt. Don Stone, who is still on the force. The other, according to The Advocate, is now-retired Capt. Frankie Caruso.

The two officers were part of an undercover narcotics operation with five other Baton Rouge cops, according to a 1993 article in The Advocate. The outlet reported at the time that the undercover cops used “chopped-up welder’s chalk” as fake crack cocaine and went into “drug ‘hot spots,’” which were predominantly black neighborhoods, to fool people into buying drugs.

The operation led to 10 arrests of people who attempted to buy the fake drugs from the officers in blackface, according to the article. It said one man in his 50s offered to pay for the phony dope with food stamps.

A Baton Rouge Police Department yearbook photo showing two officers in blackface.

Caruso’s “wife made him and Stone up to look black,” the 1993 article reported.

“Not only do they not know we’re cops ― they don’t even know we’re white!” Stone said at the time.

There were only two black narcotics officers on the police force in 1993, and they were “well known” in the targeted area, The Advocate reported at the time.

Baton Rouge Police Chief Murphy Paul confirmed in a Monday statement that the photo was from a “department-approved operation.”

“Blackface photographs are inappropriate and offensive. They were inappropriate then and are inappropriate today,” Paul said. “The Baton Rouge Police Department would like to apologize to our citizens and to anyone who may have been offended by the photographs.”

Paul added that current policies do not permit police officers to wear blackface in any official capacity, but the department “cannot apply existing policies to conduct that happened before the policies were in place.”

Caruso and then-Chief Greg Phares defended their actions in an interview with The Advocate published Monday. HuffPost and other media outlets couldn’t reach Stone for comment.

“You got to dress the part. It wasn’t done offensively,” Caruso said.

Neither officer would characterize their disguises as blackface.

“I have no problem whatsoever with that these officers did,” Phares, currently the chief deputy at the East Feliciana Parish Sheriff’s Office in Louisiana, told The Advocate. “For anyone to try to make this some sort of racial issue two decades or more later is just beyond ridiculous.”

Baton Rouge Mayor Sharon Weston Broome issued a statement Monday condemning the practice.

“While this may have been department-approved 25 years ago, that does not make it right,” Weston Broome, a black woman, said in the statement. “Blackface is more than just a costume. It invokes a painful history in this country and it is not appropriate in any situation.”

Gary Chambers, the co-publisher of the Baton Rouge Collection, told HuffPost that this incident reflects a pattern within the police department.

“Baton Rouge has been under a consent decree since 1980 for not having enough black officers,” Chambers said, referring to a Justice Department settlement that applied to several cities in Louisiana. “This shows how bad the department had been. Rather than hire more black officers they justified painting officers in blackface.”

The police department photo adds to a string of blackface controversies.

Three prominent white politicians from Virginia ― Gov. Ralph Northam (D), state Sen. Tommy Norment (R) and Attorney General Mark Herring (D) ― have come under fire for decades-old photos sporting blackface.

Additionally, Katy Perry and the fashion brands Gucci and Prada have issued apologies for selling products that resemble blackface.

 

[oidreez]

It honestly may have been intentional on Gucci's part. They may not like how hip-hop has adopted them as the 'it' band and this may be their way of saying be gone without actually saying it.

why now though and why collab with dapper dan then?

 

[mangudai954]

Yeah it doesn't add up