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has anyone considered the fact that they may have been making fun of the jackson five, and not the entire black culture and our countries painful points of history? if you think about it, the jackson's are a pretty f-ed up family. i don't find them in anyway to be representative of the black community, and i would not associate them with so many black people that are admirable in our society.
would i take offense if someone else dressed up like bill clinton or the back street boys. no b/c i think both are horses' a$$es, and deserve ridicule. would i be offended if someone dressed up like the pope, in order to ridicule catholics? yes.
i find when we lable everything as offensive then we lose focus on everything that is truly offensive. now the guys last year that dressed up as a lynching party, offensive. dressign up like the jackson five, probably not the best idea, but did they deserve to lose their chapter over it?
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