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Originally Posted by KSig RC
Why would dressing as Flava Flav be offensive, if it doesn't include a historically offensive issue (i.e. blackface or similar)? Now, you could turn anything offensive by dropping a bunch of slurs or generally acting like an ethnocentric douche, but this is kind of what I'm saying - is it implicitly offensive to some African Americans if white people dress up like black celebrities?
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to answer the last part of the question....it is dependent on intent and who the celeb is...
back to that in a sec....now as to dude dressing up like flav...it may be the fact that he didn't pull it off too well...lemme see if I can find the pic...hehehe
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