Justin Trudeau is 47 years old

[jazz lady]

He dressed up as Aladdin for a play - something like that - and Aladdin isn't black, he's brown.

The whole thing sounds like a tempest in a teapot, but I will happily force the Left to live by their own rules and rub their face in their own mess.

Gotcha. Didn't catch the whole story as my brain wasn't totally functioning at 5 am. So now I'm confused. Is it racist or cultural appropriation? or both?

 

[RareBreed]

My husband grew up in Savannah in the late 60's thru early 70's. He says he remember gas stations having segregated bathrooms and got scolded by a worker because he was heading to the "wrong" bathroom. My FIL is in his 80's and still calls them "colored people". Makes for some awkward moments in restaurants.

 

[jazz lady]

I was raised here in St. Mary's County. I am 77 and I went to a segregated school.
In fact most things were segregated. Even the Labor Day festivals.
Blacks had their own things and whites had theirs, but we seemed to get along well.
We had older blacks that we called "Aunt" and "Uncle" as a sign of respect towards older Negro's--we called blacks "colored people" that was the accepted term then.
Just like they called themselves "Colored People" when they formed the NAACP,but they never changed the name to Angry Negro's so it's still the NAACP.
I went to a segregated school, it was 1965 before St. Mary's was integrated.
When the N word was used it was used against a black that was pretty much a disgrace to his race,it wasn't used to denote what was then considered "decent" blacks. The word grew in popularity during the integration years when blacks started became more demanding.When they started busting blocks and "invading" formerly white business's and territories. Now we know of course that it is only proper for everyone to use the same facilities.and it has become accepted. To say the word wasn't used is a lie. Today it is still used on occasion when particularly agregious things happen that call it to mind.

Back in my youth no one thought it was particularly evil that whites had their own entertainment facilities and places to go.
Today it seems easy to see the wrong in their having to drive farther to find a black motel or restaurant. Back then there was little thought given to it by white people. It was just accepted in the white community. Of course it was wrong,that blacks were accepted as domestics and workers at hard labor jobs,and not intellectually equal. But it wasn't so much animosity as just ignorance. Still even in today's modern thinking, there are blacks who whites do not want to be around and in large cities they are not helping their future with their gang murders and drug dealers. There are white killers and drug dealers also and no one wants to be around them either, but they tend to not gather in one spot like the ghetto dwellers in large cities and whites tend not to riot when one of us goes down by the police. They are even more stupid and riot after foot ball wins.

My post may seem old,but there were White Only signs posted in St. Mary's when I was younger.
You want the truth posted and there it is.

My mom too was born and raised in St. Mary's County and if she were still alive, would be 83 this year so you two are of the same generation. She grew up knowing segregation and its inherent ugliness. Much of what you talk about is what she relayed to us kids. Much different world back then. I went to middle school at GW Carver and learned it was once the blacks only high school. Even in the 70s and 80s there were still traces of segregation with several 'blacks only' bars and gathering places around.

Thanks for sharing your honest memories.

 

[vraiblonde]

You want the truth posted and there it is.

I appreciate your post. History is interesting, especially coming from a firsthand account. But rather than marvel how far we've come in so many ways, the Left wants to act like black people were enslaved and subjugated just last year. Of course, they also think that personal regret = rape, so.....

 

[vraiblonde]

So now I'm confused. Is it racist or cultural appropriation? or both?

OMG now you've done it! Added another offense to poor Justin's teenage antics!!

 

[Lump]

I was watching Fox5 DC news this morning and the anchor said "brownface" and I did a double take as I have never heard it call that. Anyone know what the difference is?

Navy brat for my first several years. My first real memories are living in Massachusetts and I doubt there were many black people in that area. We moved down here in the late 60s and I don't remember any real racial tension. In fact, my best friend in 3rd and 4th grade in Leonardtown was black. My family moved to Lexington Park after that and we lost touch, but I have occasionally run into her over the years and she still remembers our friendship.

They used the phrase Brown Face on NBC too. I wondered what the difference was too!

 

[AnthonyJames]

I don't know anyone who did that crap. Nobody in my high school ever did. I always feel like such a weirdo when this racial crap comes up - was I raised on the freaking Moon?? Larry would talk about race riots at his Laurel, MD school and how there was some sign in his town that said, "Ni**er, be out of town before sundown." I never even heard of things like that. I have never called some black person a N-word in my life - who freaking talks like that? As far as I'm aware, calling people racial slurs has been wrong my whole entire life. Sure, you had a few redneck/ghetto shitbags who didn't know how to act, but reasonably raised people just didn't do that.

I have a vague memory of race riots on the news and civil rights marches, but that was like a movie or something to me because there was nothing like that going on in my city. Hell, I had black kids in my kindergarten class. I have never experienced segregation in my life. I've seen racism and bigotry, but it was much later in life and so aberrant that I was stunned.

So how old are you, where did you grow up, and was there a lot of racial what have you when you were a kid? Am I the only freaking weirdo who didn't have this as part of their life? Is my hometown of Lincoln, NE some bizarre otherworld??

I was born in D.C. in the very early 60's and raised in PG. I have a horror story about my brother and I being attacked by a mob of blacks in S.E. D.C. who just wanted to see white crackers bleed back in the mid 60's, I was 5, my brother was 7.

I remember riding in the car through S.E. to my Grand parents house to see if they were still alive after MLK was shot. Buildings on Wheeler Rd were still burning.

Another about being beaten in elementary school by blacks for just being white, and a pretty good one about being held by the throat at knife point while being robbed in Jr High by two 20ish black girls. I was 12 at the time.

Yeah, to me you guys were born on the moon.

 

[vraiblonde]

Yeah, to me you guys were born on the moon.

It's interesting that you and I are the same age, yet we had drastically different experiences growing up in different parts of the country. I never saw anything like that except on TV.

 

[Midnightrider]

My mom too was born and raised in St. Mary's County and if she were still alive, would be 83 this year so you two are of the same generation. She grew up knowing segregation and its inherent ugliness. Much of what you talk about is what she relayed to us kids. Much different world back then. I went to middle school at GW Carver and learned it was once the blacks only high school. Even in the 70s and 80s there were still traces of segregation with several 'blacks only' bars and gathering places around.

Thanks for sharing your honest memories.

I grew up in Calvert and as late as the late seventies blacks were not allowed in Boyle’s tavern. They were served, but through a window and they had to drink in the alley out back. I remember seeing them while we played little league baseball on the filed that is now st Leonard firehouse

 

[Bann]

I was watching Fox5 DC news this morning and the anchor said "brownface" and I did a double take as I have never heard it call that. Anyone know what the difference is?

Navy brat for my first several years. My first real memories are living in Massachusetts and I doubt there were many black people in that area. We moved down here in the late 60s and I don't remember any real racial tension. In fact, my best friend in 3rd and 4th grade in Leonardtown was black. My family moved to Lexington Park after that and we lost touch, but I have occasionally run into her over the years and she still remembers our friendship.

At our DoD school in Naples, my last year there (71/72) there bi-racial couples at the school. The one couple got married, because just a few years ago, I saw posts from one of them on my alumni FB page. All those years ago they got married - and at a time when it was not as socially acceptable as it eventually became.

I moved to Norfolk, Va in 1972, and we definitely had racial tensions in my 8th grade school year (72/73) We had some racially motivated type of rioting one time. But those were exceptions and I remember students of both races also getting along. When I first moved to St. Mary's County in April 1974, there were racial tensions at Chopticon between some white & black students, but there were certainly interracial friendships and relationships, as well.

 

[WingsOfGold]

Lets see almost 70 and never wore blackface intentionally and never gave it a thought about doing it. Every year of my preteens and early teens I DID use dirty face on Oct 31, I went as a hobo.

 

[frequentflier]

Born and raised in Rochester, NY. Lived in a mixed neighborhood that got rougher when I was in my early teens. The kids in the neighborhood all played together and race wasn't an issue. There were neighborhoods close by that white people did not go to, day or night. Some of those neighborhoods are still $hitholes with bad people (neighborhood where my brother was robbed and murdered in 1978- about 1.5 miles from the house I grew up in).
The riots of '68 had us hiding in the attic and scared as businesses were being torched and not one knew what would happen next.
There was a soul food restaurant a group of us used to hang at to sit and eat french fries. The lady that ran it always encouraged us to try other things. Though I was and am still unwilling to try chitlens and hog jowls, to this day I wished she would have talked me into some collards!

 

[TPD]

Born and raised on the farm in St. Mary’s for the last 51 years. I remember the days of cutting tobacco on my grandparents farm. It was customary to provide a hot meal at lunchtime for the hired help. Part of the hired help included black men and women. They always sat at a separate table in a separate room for lunch. They also brought their own water coolers - they would not drink out of the same water jug provided buy my grandfather for all the white help. This was late 70s early 80s. On our own farm blacks and whites sat at the same table for lunch.

I have many more stories concerning “colored” people in southern St Mary’s but you get the gist with what I already said.

 

[officeguy]

They used the phrase Brown Face on NBC too. I wondered what the difference was too!

The difference is the Trudeau is a leftist and gets celebrated for his apology while anyone else would get tarred and feathered if the same information came out about them.

 

[Kyle]

The difference is the Trudeau is a leftist and gets celebrated for his apology while anyone else would get tarred and feathered if the same information came out about them.

Northam didn't suffer.

 

[officeguy]

Northam didn't suffer.

Another leftist. See a pattern there ?

 

[Bean Machine]

Lincoln has never been a hotbed of racial animosity. When you lived there a significant portion of the local economy depended on a successful (read: integrated) Cornhusker football team. Had you lived in Omaha, there would have been places you wouldn't have shown your lily-white self at night.

I also grew up in Lincoln, with a 3.5 year stint in Ashland NE (pop.2500). I don't recall a single person of color in Ashland until the Vietnamese boat people came. I do not recall anyone in either place every making fun anyone or doing anything "racists" at all. The ONLY thing that would come close is when folks made fun of Oklahoma Football. Do you know why it's always windy in Nebraska? It's because Oklahoma sucks! Seemed like all the crime was from Omaha, like Lurk said....

 

[vraiblonde]

I also grew up in Lincoln, with a 3.5 year stint in Ashland NE (pop.2500). I don't recall a single person of color in Ashland until the Vietnamese boat people came. I do not recall anyone in either place every making fun anyone or doing anything "racists" at all. The ONLY thing that would come close is when folks made fun of Oklahoma Football. Do you know why it's always windy in Nebraska? It's because Oklahoma sucks! Seemed like all the crime was from Omaha, like Lurk said....

I posted a note to my former high school classmates on FB, and they (black, white, and other) have assured me that I'm not crazy - there was in fact no racial animosity to speak of that anyone recalls. A couple of jerks here and there, but they were roundly shunned anyway.

 

[AnthonyJames]

I never saw anything like that except on TV.

Good reason for that. You were in Nebraska, I was in the District of Columbia. Heck, you might have even seen me on TV. Black folks were streaming in for jobs, and D.C. paid the highest unemployment if you couldn't get one. Southeast was the cheapest quadrant of the city to live in and southern PG county was starting to boom from the overflow.

I worked in D.C. for 23 years also. I can't remember a day someone wasn't protesting something.

 

[Yooper]

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