If "black is beautiful", why not?
"While most of the crowd that lined the sidewalks last week for the 59th annual Dexter Memorial Day parade came to celebrate and remember, some left disgusted and angry. The source of their rage was a float that at best wasn't appropriate for this kind of event and at worst was racist and offensive....
The offending float, sponsored by David Myers Photography in Dexter, consisted of a red pickup truck with a platform float hitched to the truck's back end.... All of that was overshadowed by two female dancers dressed in blackface style makeup with pitch black face paint on exposed skin, wigs that appeared to emulate the racial qualities of an African-American's hair and pink lipstick. The paint also was noticeably absent from the women's palms. ...
To Diskin and others, it appeared as if someone was paying homage to a theatrical style known for playing a role in shaping racial stereotypes that remain to this day. In 1993, former "Cheers" star Ted Danson caused a firestorm of controversy after appearing in "blackface" at a Friars Club roast.
According to Myers, the float had nothing to do with race, but instead was a spoof of commercials for Apple's portable iPod music player. In the commercials, dark silhouetted characters dance against bright-colored backgrounds, with only their distinctive physical characteristics being their body shape and a pair of prominent white iPod corded earphones.
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So any hint of depicting blacks is to mock them. Interesting view. Sounds racist to me.
