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Originally posted by Hootie
I don't want to play the ignorance card, however...
Maybe the person who designed the webpage and put the picture up was ignorant to the fact that the gentleman in the picture would be offending people by his costume. I come from an area of town where there aren't a lot of black people and only until I took a Intro To Black Lit. class did I find out about black face and what it meant (that was TWO years ago). Call me nieve if you wish, but not everyone has bad intentions.
Hootie
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Ignorance cannot be excused. Even if you don't have bad intentions, you are at all times responsible for your actions. A kid who brings a gun to school to show off and ends up waving at someone to scare them, might not have intended to shoot and kill someone, but the scenario is very possible.
-Rudey
--There is no reason to take a class to understand what is offensive in the world.