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Acceptability on a global stage [message #48704]

Tue, 29 January 2008 11:50

timmy

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Elsewhere on the board we have two diametrically opposed views. These interest me, because I subscribe to neither.

Eldon has posted a parody of Hattie McDaniel, and actress of whom I had never heard, speaking in what I would expect to have seen in "Uncle Tom's Cabin".

Marc has commented about it suggesting that it is inappropriate.

I do not have the US perspective on black people and their treatment. It was a source of major surprise to me that I was happily at school with black kids while the US still had segregation.

So this interests me. We have the world here. How do folks perceive the topic? is this characterisation distasteful, amusing, funny, offensive?

I'm not "picking on" either poster. I'd just like to expand my knowledge of attitudes. After all, I come from an oppressed minority and I am a second generation UK immigrant.

Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School

		Acceptability on a global stage By: timmy on Tue, 29 January 2008 11:50
		Re: Acceptability on a global stage By: timmy on Tue, 29 January 2008 12:13
		Re: Acceptability on a global stage By: acam on Tue, 29 January 2008 12:16
		Re: Acceptability on a global stage By: timmy on Tue, 29 January 2008 12:27
		Re: Acceptability on a global stage By: JimB on Tue, 29 January 2008 15:26
		Re: Acceptability on a global stage By: marc on Tue, 29 January 2008 15:43
		Re: Acceptability on a global stage By: timmy on Tue, 29 January 2008 16:47
		Re: Acceptability on a global stage By: Curtis one who makes noise on Tue, 29 January 2008 17:58
		I've been looking for offensive things By: timmy on Tue, 29 January 2008 18:12
		Re: Acceptability on a global stage By: marc on Tue, 29 January 2008 19:11
		Re: Acceptability on a global stage By: timmy on Tue, 29 January 2008 19:44
		Re: Acceptability on a global stage By: timmy on Tue, 29 January 2008 19:47
		Re: Acceptability on a global stage By: JFR on Tue, 29 January 2008 16:52
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