Leading Democrats are very disturbed about blackface which they perceive as always the ridicule of Blacks, but they have no concern that Fundamentalist Christians were ridiculed for their sincerely held beliefs by the “church lady” on Saturday Night Live from 1986 to 2016. Or how about Preacher which “is a supernatural, twisted and darkly comedic drama that follows a West Texas preacher, Jesse Custer, his bada** ex-girlfriend, Tulip and an Irish vagabond named Cassidy.” I have not heard a word of criticism about this show’s distortion of the ministry. In fact, I never knew about this show.

Why are Democrats who are so indignant about whites in blackface unconcerned for the ridicule of Catholics by men dressed as nuns during “gay” rights parades? I don’t agree with the Catholic nuns’ theology but many of them are very caring, dedicated people who help sick people in hospitals and teach children in their schools.

But then, everyone knows Christians are fair game; and, on the other hand, no one would even think of doing a parody or critical analysis of Muslims. The Racial Gestapo is not interested in fair and equal treatment.

Why did these critics of blackface not condemn the All in the Family television show about Archie Bunker, a hard-working union man who was ridiculed for his Conservative (highly exaggerated) views? It was thought that Archie had extremist views while his daughter and son-in-law advocated for every left wing cause that came down the pike. Archie was portrayed as a honky jerk while his daughter and son-in-law were cast as heroic, committed people. That kind of ridicule and double standard is appalling yet is accepted, even applauded by non-thinking leftists.

When a white person puts on blackface, is he or she always guilty of cultural appropriation? Cultural appropriation carries the implication of fraud or seizure and carries the thought of taking something from someone, or to diminish a supply such as when a kid steals a piece of fruit. Most critics would say it is wrong if a white man in blackface takes advantage of the black culture to further his own cause—reputation, income, etc., at the expense of another culture especially if the intent is to be critical.

Many people say blackface is acceptable if it does not ridicule Blacks. Others violently diagree.

Cultural appropriation can include using other groups’ cultural and religious traditions, fashion, symbols, language, and music. An example is when a non-Indian wears a headdress or lives in a wigwam or a white person wears dreadlocks. But could that be extended to where a white person is offensively insensitive to Blacks if he eats okra or chitlins? Can a reasonable case be made for cultural appropriation?

When I hunted with bow and arrows, was I racially insensitive and demeaning to Native Americans or did I simply want to use a more challenging method to hunt deer and bear? And is it anyone’s business if I’m so stupid to go after a bear with two sticks and a string?

Many Indians are offended by the use of Indian names for athletic teams such as the “Redskins,” “Braves,” “Blackhawks,” and “Seminoles.” However, the Seminole tribe in Florida voted for Florida State University to keep the name Seminoles. They considered it an honor. Other Seminoles in Oklahoma disagree.

Was I guilty when I purchased a Peruvian work shirt and Mexican sombrero to use while doing my yard and garden work? Who gave the Mexicans exclusive use of the wide brimmed hat? The Mexicans had adopted an earlier hat worn by the Spanish colonials during the 1700s, so it seems that everyone appropriates from everyone else. Yet some U.S. college presidents prohibited non-Mexican students from wearing a sombrero for fear it might offend Mexican students. Well, too bad, they’ll get over it although it may give them heartburn and even scar their ids and disturb their egos, but they will survive.

Should a Christian be offended when a non-Christian or pagan wears a cross since obviously it means nothing to him or her? Since the ancient Hebrews used male circumcision as their distinctive rite, is it cultural appropriation and therefore wrong for any non-Hebrew to have a son circumcised? Was it wrong for some WW II soldiers to wear a Mohawk haircut to intimidate enemy soldiers?

Cultural appropriation is a misnomer since it suggests that something has been taken but no matter how many people take something from a culture, it is never diminished in the least. This is not appropriation but more like appreciation. I like something in the Japanese culture and take it for my own use and satisfaction. However, I have diminished nothing from the Japanese. I have honored and respected them.

How can I steal what does not belong to anyone? No group owns the music, food, clothes, practices, etc., that make up a culture and it is none of their business if I choose to use for myself what I like. Again, this is appreciation. Besides, I thought imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Padma Lakshmi‘s hairstyle selection for a recent episode of Top Chef isn’t winning rave reviews. She had her hair done in cornrows and has received grief from many Blacks. Whites don’t have a history of cornrows. But then, why was Eddie Murphy not guilty of cultural appropriation when he did a skit in whiteface? If not, why not? Also, why did Murphy, who says he is not “gay” and has at least ten children, get a pass when he played a homosexual in a movie? Wasn’t he appropriating another culture?

Is it wrong for a black to sing an Italian opera or to act in a Shakespearian play? The Metropolitan Opera has been using Whites (in dark makeup) cast as Blacks for over a hundred years. Until now; the Fanatics Against Blackface (FAB) have changed that tradition.

I suggest that these critical Blacks get over their super sensitive nature and realize that they don’t own their culture and if a white man wants to adopt some of it for his own life, that is called freedom. Furthermore, get a life, chill out, settle down, and don’t always look for ways to force your dubious, divisive, and dumb opinions on others. Leave the Virginia politicians (and others) alone who were careless, crass, and crude in their youth. Judge them on their work and life as adults.

While defending Northam’s right to not be judged for a college stunt, I have noticed that Northam and other Democrats are not concerned about killing innocent babies unless the killer does his dastardly work in blackface.

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Someone will be tarred and feathered and maybe run out of town on a rail in an effort to remove any vestige of racism in the state.

Governor Ralph Northam says he is not running anywhere even though he committed the unpardonable sin of racial intolerance by appearing in blackface; Lt. Governor Justin Fairfax has been accused of sexual assault by two women, one more than fifteen years ago. Attorney General Mark R. Herring has admitted to wearing blackface during his college days. Very few people seem to be concerned that Northam defended a “kill it after it’s born” bill. To most Democrats, it appears that blackface bigotry is far worse than baby butchery.

It seems blackface is always the face of bigotry and there is no redemption; however, blackface is really a form of theatrical “makeup applied to a performer playing a Black person,” according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Just because a man puts on blackface does not prove he is a bigot not unless he seeks to defame, demean, or denigrate Blacks. However, the black racists have pushed the definition to where any blackface is forbidden and never forgotten nor forgiven. Moreover, it is forbidden for any white to pretend to be black for any reason since that is supposed to be an insult to Blacks.

However, that dog won’t hunt. I remember Amos and Andy as a delightful comedy set in a black neighborhood. The radio show was heard on Sunday evening and was extremely popular with everyone including Blacks. It ran from 1928 until 1960! Amos and Andy were both white men. It was so popular, my friend Barry Farber revealed in his World Net Daily column that a Harlem movie theater posted a big sign on the box office that announced, “Come on in Folks! At 7:30 we turn off the movie and listen to ‘Amos ‘n’ Andy!’”

That was in Harlem, so are critics of blackface suggesting that those Harlem Blacks were stupid, uncaring, or insensitive? Maybe they simply liked good comedy without an agenda.

First of all, no one has supported to my satisfaction the accusation that all blackface and the non-Black use of black culture is automatic proof of bigotry. However, even if that were true, it does not mean that a bigot is always a bigot. I find it strange that I am defending liberal Democrats but I must. I don’t know Northam or Herring but does their past adult life reflect a hatred of Blacks? If so, then demand the death penalty or castigate them as racists but not because they did some stupid stunt in college. Blackface is not an impeachable offence, and leftists, liberals, loonies, and losers are also safe from being accountable for stupid actions. If not, our state and federal offices would be as empty as Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s head.

Furthermore, Northam may have been a bigot in college but not now. After all, he attends a church on the state’s Eastern Shore, First Baptist in Capeville that is more than 90% black. His pastor and “mentor” who prayed at his inauguration is also black. Seems as if the Democrat and Republican racists have jumped the gun in branding a big R on the governor’s forehead.

Many state and national leaders—black Democrats—have demanded the two men resign for their juvenile hijinks. However, many of those Democrats carrying the tar and feathers are lifetime racists—many are black. And many are hypocrites such as Senator Cory Booker (and presidential candidate) who admitted that he fondled a woman while he was a college student. So, Booker is a confessed sexual abuser and further disgraced himself by taking advantage of his victim while she was drunk.

Remember that Booker was ready to crucify Judge Brett Kavanaugh for unsupported sexual abuse allegations that allegedly happened decades ago, but Booker’s indiscretion was actual while Kavanaugh’s was only an allegation.

Democrat Senator and Presidential candidate Kamala Harris wants Northam to resign but according to Fox News, she had an affair with Willie Brown, former mayor of San Francisco and Speaker of the State Assembly. Moreover, Brown admitted that he advanced her career because of their affair. Surely, the screaming feminists could not support Harris with that in her résumé since no real feminist would acceptance a career boost in return for sexual favors.

Would they?

But there are more high and mighty critics of the governor such as the Congressional Black Caucus, the NAACP, and Planned Parenthood—all three known for racist positions especially Planned Parenthood. That group has killed millions of black babies as per the desire of its founder Margaret Sanger. Sanger called for requiring a state permit for parents to have one baby and said, “But for my view, I believe that there should be no more babies.” She added, “The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.”

I doubt an aborted baby would consider it merciful to be decapitated and have his limbs severed. Sanger and her Planned Parenthood have done more devastating harm to Blacks than the KKK ever did.

When she was not engrossed in preaching effective baby killing and still married to her first husband, Margaret began an extramarital affair with H. G. Wells, the leading progressive of the 1920s. Sanger was especially concerned with aborting black babies. She enlisted black pastors to help promote her crazy eugenics/abortion scheme to exterminate all inferiors. With missionary zeal, she enlisted the Klan to help in her efforts to kill babies.

Sanger admitted in her autobiography, “I accepted an invitation to talk to the women’s branch of the Ku Klux Klan…I saw through the door dim figures parading with banners and illuminated crosses…I was escorted to the platform, was introduced, and began to speak…In the end, through simple illustrations I believed I had accomplished my purpose. A dozen invitations to speak to similar groups were proffered.”

How any decent person could support or defend such an evil group as Planned Parenthood (or the KKK) is beyond my comprehension especially supporting it without denouncing its evil founder. However, I’ve noticed that leftists, black and white, are the least principled people; they live by a standard but it is a double standard.

Governor Northam may have been a college bigot but not now, even though the prevailing wisdom is “once a bigot, always a bigot”—at least that’s what the racial bigots obviously believe; but they obviously don’t believe killing born and unborn babies is a crime.

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Gasp!

Everyone is aghast at such actions but few gagged and gasped for breath at the governor’s defense of killing newborn babies; so it seems blackface is anathema but baby killing is acceptable. President Trump was right when he declared, “All children, born and unborn, are made in the image of God.”

It got worse for the Democrat administration when the state’s Lt. Governor Justin E. Fairfax was accused of a 2004 sexual assault by a college professor. Then it was revealed that the Washington Post (champions of the double standard) had the story a year ago but refused to publish it. You may remember that they were not reticent to run an unsubstantiated story about Judge Brett Kavanaugh. But then, he is a Republican.

Then, another shoe dropped when Virginia’s Attorney General Mark R. Herring confessed to wearing blackface at a party in the 1980s—now all three top officeholders are in trouble.

Of course, like buzzards circling over a road kill, Al Sharpton showed up and called forcefully for Northam and Herring to resign saying, “If you sin, you must repent for the sin.” Such sanctimonious hypocrisy would gag the aforementioned buzzards. Sharpton is America’s number one race-baiter, with Jesse Jackson a close second. Sharpton has never answered for the Tawana Brawley hoax that destroyed six innocent men in 1987.

Tawana was 15 years old when she told police and reporters that she had been raped by six white men, including a local prosecutor and a police officer, who scrawled racial epithets on her body and left her in a vacant lot, according to The New York Times. Her lie, supported by Sharpton, ruined six men but made Al a television commentator on MSNBC although he has major problems reading plain English from his teleprompter. His show is seen by hundreds, maybe thousands of viewers.

Al is back doing his thing (race-baiting) since blackface is a terrible crime against humanity. But is it? Is it possible that one can do a blackface routine without being a racist?

It seems admitting doing blackface is worse than killing helpless babies. Most of Virginia’s Democrat leaders and many national Democrat leaders demanded that Northam resign. However, they were not concerned with him advocating the killing of newborn babies, just his blackface or KKK episode.

To most people, the photo of him (or whomever) in blackface and the other of a man in a KKK robe are equivalent. They are not. They are worlds apart. It must be remembered that the Klan was a white terrorist group of southern Democrats founded after the Civil War. A group of former Confederate veterans founded the first KKK as a social club in Pulaski, Tennessee in 1866. When it reached its peak in the 1920s, the membership had more than 4 million members in many states.

The KKK members (mostly Democrats) were incensed that Blacks were elected in the Reconstructed south (as Republicans) during the late 1860s. During those days, seven black politicians were killed by the Klan. Klan members adopted a white, hooded costume—a guise intended to represent the ghosts of the Confederate dead—to avoid identification and to frighten and intimidate white and black Republicans. The Klan specialized in murder, lynching, arson, rape, whippings, and bombings.

To condone or to defend the Klan is irresponsible; however, blackface should be looked at as the immature actions of college students who have more time than they have social consciences. The guilty Whites parading as Blacks were not necessarily bigots; only thoughtless morons. It is said that the earliest blackface performances stereotyped black men and women as “ignorant, hypersexual, superstitious, lazy people who were prone to thievery and cowardice.” After watching a blackface act in 1848, abolitionist Fredrick Douglass called the white performers “the filthy scum of white society” in his The North Star newspaper.

Yes, there was that aspect of blackface but there is another side also.

In the early 1900s, Blacks were played by white actors in blackface because the white elite did not think Blacks could learn their lines and fake emotions required by the script. Moreover, Blacks were banned from Broadway productions and were finally employed in movies as dumb, slow-talking, lazy, stumbling, or dangerous “darkies.” This practice was common into the 1930s. Then Al Jolson, in blackface, became a sensation to Blacks and Whites. Al Jolson was a Jewish immigrant who became the most famous and highest paid entertainer in America. He was considered “The World’s Greatest Entertainer.” He is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Blacks by wearing blackface.

While Jolson appeared in other roles, he became famous for The Jazz Singer where he won the hearts of Americans even in blackface. The oldest black newspaper in the nation Amsterdam News stated that The Jazz Singer in 1927 was “one of the greatest pictures ever produced,” and that, “Every colored performer is proud of him (Jolson).” Jolson chose to star in The Jazz Singer which defied racial bigotry by introducing black musicians to audiences worldwide.

Jolson introduced America to Black musicians and actors according to the St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture stating, “Almost single-handedly, Jolson helped to introduce African-American musical innovations like jazz, ragtime, and the blues to white audiences.”

According to film historian Eric Lott, “For the white minstrel man to put on the cultural forms of ‘blackness’ was to engage in a complex affair of manly mimicry…To wear or even enjoy blackface was literally, for a time, to become black, to inherit the cool, virility, humility, abandon, or gaité de coeur (cheerfulness with a light heart) that were the prime components of white ideologies of black manhood.” Lott thought Jolson was a positive for Blacks and Whites.

Jolson, as a 25 year old, fought discrimination on Broadway and later in the movies. Furthermore, he promoted a play by Garland Anderson (a black) which became the first production with an all-black cast produced on Broadway. Jolson demanded equal treatment for Cab Calloway, with whom he performed duets in the movie The Singing Kid.

Noble Sissle was a black songwriter in the 1930s who declared, “[h]e was always the champion of the Negro songwriter and performer, and was first to put Negroes in his shows.”

Jeni LeGon, a black female tap dance star, recalls her life as a film dancer: “But of course, in those times it was a ‘black-and-white world.’ You didn’t associate too much socially with any of the stars. You saw them at the studio, you know, nice—but they didn’t invite. The only ones that ever invited us home for a visit was Al Jolson and Ruby Keeler.”

British performer Brian Conley, former star of the 1995 British play Jolson, stated during an interview, “I found out Jolson was actually a hero to the black people of America. At his funeral, black actors lined the way, they really appreciated what he’d done for them.”

No one considered Jolson a racist in his day and it is contemptible for moderns to make unfair, untrue, and unwarranted judgments about his blackface performances. Haters and bigots do not treat the object of their hatred as did Jolson. His blackface performances were not proof of bigotry, but were his way of helping black performers by putting first himself and then them in front of his audiences.

There is an inclination to judge the past in the light of modern standards. It is unreasonable to criticize early Americans and their relationship to Indians without knowing what it was like to live in constant fear of being scalped, raped, or burned alive while living in a lonely cabin many miles from assistance.

Likewise, it is unfair, even silly to hold anyone’s feet to the fire for what he or she did in college. I refuse to fault the governor or any other politician for doing blackface when they were younger; however, I do believe anyone who defends, promotes, and advocates the killing of babies should be recognized as baby butchers and be shunned by polite society.

Killing innocent, defective babies is not just a slippery slope; it is a bottomless pit.

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