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Is this also racist imagery?

I think most people agree that it is no longer acceptable for white people to black up as racial caricatures (as the Black and White Minstrels did).

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38223000/jpg/_3...

I have just seen this pic on the website of the Trinidadian High Commission in London - is it not equally unacceptable?

http://www.tthighcommission.co.uk/images/parang.jp...

Update:

The first pic was from a TV show that has not been screened for 30 years, and the programme's demise was brought about partly by a petition from the Campaign Against Racial Discrimination.

The second pic is on the High Commission's website right now (Dates Closed page), and is a photo from parang, the Trinidadian Xmas music festivity. With so many other possible images of parang bands,

http://triniview.com/photos/Parang_161206/par16120...

http://www.trinisoca.com/photos/Parang-Festival-05...

http://www.losamigoscantadores.com/mainpic.jpg

http://pixelstation5.com/irpdemo/groupgfx/img_0118...

http://library2.nalis.gov.tt/Portals/0/602/parang%...

the High Commission went ahead and chose a whiteface pic.

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  • OGUN
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
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    It's buffoonery...

  • ABB
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    This is nothing like the "Black and White Minstrels".

    That was white people wearing absurd make-up in a ridiculous and racist parody of black people, offensive in every way.

    This picture is of some Trinidadians at a party with some (some!) white make-up on their faces.

    The two don't even begin to compare.

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  • It's petty.

    Why even put the pictures up at all? Geez......the first one (as we all know) was used in the past to ridicule Black people.....so it's very connotation is offensive.

    The second one, I could care less......it was never used to degrade and humiliate White people, so why should we care? I mean really....

    Is is not equally unacceptable? I could give a rats ***, really......why can't people leave the hornets nest alone. Is there a reason to even use the pictures? To prove what?

    **shaking head**

    We have much bigger things to worry about in the world......

  • 1 decade ago

    Yes its indeed racist.

    I remember ones, a persian guy was celebrating his new year, and part their the tradition is to paint your skin dark and go around dance and sing. (This is to show respect to an African Iranian hero) and some black guys thought they that the guy was making fun of them and they were close to beating him down.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    well I live in the U.S. and many here would consider the first picture link racist but the second one is not.

    We have a double standard here and for some reason minorities are incapable of racism.........at least according to them. But I'm not that stupid.

  • 4 cee
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    well that second image is one of the most racist thing I have ever seen in my long years. Someone needs to put a stop to that.

  • 1 decade ago

    Look the way I see it is that... if blacks can agree that they won't get butthurt offended over the first picture then whites won't over the 2nd; then we can both have some fun (since both of those pictures were taken during carnivals, parties). Damn, its all for fun!!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I think it's a step in the right direction

    Whitney, I think you could learn a thing or two from your 'brothas' about trying to conform to whiteness.

  • 1 decade ago

    Why? They can do whatever they want I don't give a crap. They all look like a bunch of weirdos... Black or white.

  • Only if you play the PC game, and I hate PC as it is one step toward communism

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    not really

    i bet if they were black guys with white paint on, you wouldn't care.

    talk about two face

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