Tuesday, January 24, 2017

O.K. This wasn't the only blackface moment in Stillwater last week.

Over the weekend, a female student [at Oklahoma State] posted a photo of herself in blackface on Snapchat with the caption “When he says he only likes black girls.”

She apologized in several posts on her Facebook page early Monday morning. “I am deeply sorry for those that I have offended,” the student wrote. “My intentions were not at all to be racist. For anyone who knows me, you know I am not racist."

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5 comments:

  1. Compound CalicoJanuary 25, 2017 at 8:04:00 AM CST

    I don't know when it was that it seemed clear to me that students I was getting were so incredibly tone-deaf to this sort of thing. There was a time when otherwise normal seeming kids called everything "gay." The textbook was gay. The cafeteria was gay.

    I remember saying once, "Do you mean that if something is gay that it's not normal or its bad? Like gay people?"

    I could just see their brains clicking and stuttering.

    I'm sure they left the room thinking, "That Dr. Cal is so gay."

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  2. Contingent CassandraJanuary 25, 2017 at 3:52:00 PM CST

    And then there was the nonprofit director who called the now-former first lady "an ape in heels," and the mayor who agreed with the sentiment. Both claimed they didn't know the comment might be taken as racist. While I have my doubts about that claim, I'll take it at face value, and argue that it (and the incident above) suggest that American history curricula need to pay more -- not, as many claim, less -- attention to the history of race and racism (and yes, I realize that some of the deficit can probably be attributed to censorship from the left -- witness the bowdlerizing or elimination of Huck Finn from the curriculum -- but, once again, I don't think that's the main explanation).

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    1. Middle-Aged and MoroseJanuary 25, 2017 at 8:17:00 PM CST

      I never got the hatred aimed at Mrs. Obama. I think she's a very dignified, smart, pretty, classy lady.

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    2. Contingent CassandraJanuary 25, 2017 at 9:53:00 PM CST

      You and me both. But I don't think most people who criticized Mrs. Obama were seeing Michelle Obama. They were seeing their own projections of what a black woman is, or should/shouldn't be.

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  3. Perfesser SlaughterJanuary 25, 2017 at 4:26:00 PM CST

    How can you put on blackface and say your "intentions were not to be racist"? I wish I had a get out of jail free card like that.

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