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I've never blackfaced but there are things I said and did when I was a kid and young adult that I deeply regret and am ashamed of which would no doubt be ammunition for enemies should I run for prime minister of Canada.
There, out in the open now.
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The closest I've come was playing Joseph in my kindergarten nativity play (no blacking up involved). That's ok though because (as any US evangelist will tell you) Jesus was definitely white.
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I did once as Jimi Hendrix. Took me a long time to find a suitable blouse too! I think I was just trying to out do everyone. I must have been somewhere between 16-20. One of my more liberal friends who still lives in the village/ town I grew up in took great pleasure in reminding me of this when the Trudeau story broke.
Lead us to discussion of this t-shirt....
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As a 13 year old CCF cadet, I went on a training day out. We were given a pack of camo paint each and told to camo up. A young commissioned officer who was with us said even I had to apply it because it's about breaking up facial features, not covering up whiteness.
So without a mirror or any prior experience we all set to applying camo.
At the end of the day an older commissioned officer told us we all looked like idiots because we'd all applied our camo terribly. He then singled me out and said I was coloured already and didn't need further colouring in.
When I got home after a long train journey with plenty of people staring at me, I went to the bathroom, and realised instead of the streaks and lines I thought I'd applied, I'd just applied a brown face on top of my already brown face.
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Stonehedge
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I almost feel like we need to declare an amnesty. Anyone who confesses between now and Kwanza of past blackface demeanours will be absolved, no questions asked then after that death by pile on and cancellation.