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Like you, I had no idea it was offensive until 1984


I never did blackface, but I didn't know there was anything wrong with that. Surprisingly, it wasn't until I saw like 4 minutes of an episode of "Gimme a Break" (a show I never watched, but caught just this one scene while flipping channels). I stopped on the scene because the young son (maybe playing 10 years old at the time?) had his face black while doing something like Al Jolson in "The Jazz Singer" and the rest of the people in the scene were recoiling in horror.

At that moment, I'm like..."OK, I don't get it" and stayed tuned.

And I grew up in a neighborhood and school that was probably 25% African American. My best friend at that age was as well. No idea that it was even a thing.

Perhaps growing up where I did, I was never exposed to them, or even the concept? The North in general and Rochester, NY in particular being the home of Frederick Douglas and a major stop on the Underground Railroad. Not as prominent and/or "Minsterl Shows" (which I had never heard about until TODAY) stopped happening earlier here?

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Posted: 02/06/2019 at 4:38PM



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