I don't get it. Why does something have to have history tied to it to be offensive? Just because whites were not booted out of Major Leagues, or Universities, or bus routes and called crackers, doesn't make it any less offensive.
There is a double-standard, realize that.
Also, just because a few incidents made CNN and MSNBC doesn't mean that the history behind blackface is being made any more public. If these kids were not greek, chances are 100 times more likely that they didn't get wind of the other events taht took place (IE, Auburn)
Lastly, quit blaming people for 'not knowing history' about blackface. Just because someone read about it on this board, doesn't make them a historian on this fact.
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Originally posted by KSig RC
An interesting anecdote:
......You think an analogous situation ever arose with regard to white people? Did the word "cracka" or any other such nonsense ever come up in this sort of situation?
There's no sort of history behind these supposed white racial slurs. Your views are implicitly flawed by ignoring this fact.
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