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The_Kindness_of_Trees in reply to @christianSpaceman

No, minstrelsy is a specifically offensive act: 'blacking up' in and of itself is not.

The photo jars because we jump to the conclusion that it's a piss-take - it lacks a recognisable context. Once we take on that new context are we not capable of shifting our view and accepting it for what it is?

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NotThamesWater in reply to @The_Kindness_of_Trees

minstrelsy

That's just being a minstrel. Perhaps you meant being a black & white minstrel.

[Edit] Although it appears it mainly refers to the blacked up kind of minstrel

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The_Kindness_of_Trees in reply to @NotThamesWater

Yeah, blacking up in a theatrical sense to portray the black man as some sort of buffoon. This is not what these Morris Dancers are doing - they are not passing themselves off as black characters.

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