I grew up around racists... no black face... not ever. I’ve stated over on my own social media that, growing up in my neighborhood in Pomona, one could not be racist and have friends. My group of friends never thought much about it. When our respective moms told us to “go outside and play,” we played with whichever kids were in the street. My oldest brother was the only white guy on his high school football team. It wasn’t weird to us; it was normal and no big deal. Nobody I knew would have worn black face either as a gag or to be offensive.
When I went to high school in Corona, I attached myself to the group of kids who hung around what was called the “scholar bench,” and they were even more diverse (I brought down the grade curve significantly, yet they remain my closest friends to this day). Again, black face would not have been contemplated. College up in the state of Washington, most of the campus was white. That’s how much of Western Washington was at the time. But even surrounded my mostly white folks, no black face. I wrote this not as some sort of humblegrag; my story is not unique. If you are any age and remember with any degree of nostalgia the racist behavior of the people you knew when you were younger, you need help. Racism certainly existed all around me growing up, but the bigots were not overt about it. If anything, racists kept it to themselves. On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 10:36 PM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > If you are under 60 and at anytime in your life you can honestly say that > it was not racist for white people to put on blackface when you were > growing up, we know only one things for sure; you grew up around racists. > > Lots of things about race are complex and subject to POV. This is not one > of those things. > > Of course, lots of people grew up around racists, so... > > On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 3:45 PM Steve Timko <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm a decade older than Megyn Kelly. When I was a kid, black face was >> still okay, although that was a reflection of a being in a rural mining >> town. I called Brazil nuts nigger toes until I got into college. >> Of course I learned to be more culturally sensitive. That seems to be >> where Kelly is lacking. >> I wonder if this will show up as an SNL skit? >> >> On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 2:30 PM Chris Neuman <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Patton Oswalt tweeted that same sentiment: >>> >>> https://twitter.com/pattonoswalt/status/1054759947114672129 >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 1:50 PM Kevin M. <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> How old is Kelly that, as a kid, black face was an acceptable form of >>>> dress-up? I’m in my mid 40s... I’m almost certain Kelly is younger than I >>>> am, and at no point in my life was black face ever acceptable. >>>> >>>> On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 11:33 AM Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 11:04 AM Steve Timko <[email protected]> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> NBC lets her have it. Other networks ignore it. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/24/media/megyn-kelly-blackface-al-roker/index.html >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> As I get more of my news through Twitter I am following more >>>>> journalists of color and feminist journalists in order to get different >>>>> points of view than my own reacting to events. The African-American >>>>> journalists I follow and the people they retweet all say that Megyn Kelly >>>>> has a long history of racist remarks at Fox News and NBC knew what they >>>>> were getting when they hired her. >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>> Groups "TVorNotTV" group. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> Kevin M. (RPCV) >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "TVorNotTV" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "TVorNotTV" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TVorNotTV" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > Sent from Gmail Mobile > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
