From Barrow in Furness:
"A drama group's plan to have white actors "black up" for a performance of a famous stage musical has plunged it into a race row.
Anti-racism campaigners have condemned Grange Operatic Society's decision as "stupid" and "offensive".
Others called it "dehumanising" towards black people.
But Grange Town Council, which owns Victoria Hall where the show is due to be staged, approved the plans at its meeting on Monday. Rehearsals begin in September for the society's planned staging of the Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein musical Show Boat.
Both the stage show and its film version have been heavily criticised in the past for stereotyping black people and for its use of language, including the word "n****r".
Grange Operatic Society says it will use the term "coloured folk".
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It is dehumanizing to have black faces?? Both Marx & Engels and Hitler regarded blacks as not fully human but it is strange to hear that in Britain today.
