Last month in LA was the re-release of the first "talkie" AKA motion picture with sound and was a historical event for some but not for me. Why? Because the title of this "talkie" is The Jazz Singer starring America's favorite Jewish Blackface performer, Al Jolson. I wasn't having it and made my voice heard in the comments section of the internet post announcing its historical significance.
Now that yet another Halloween has come and gone, I find myself angry yet again. Why? Because some people still feel it necessary to put on Blackface and parade in costume around as their favorite personality on All Hallow's Eve.
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At this year's 3rd Annual Halloween Do Over finale better known as the Boo Over, was of course a reveler in Blackface apparently portraying a member of NWA. I wasn't there, and given that this event draws a very multiethnic (read: Black) crowd, I couldn't help but wonder if anyone stepped to this dude and gave him verbal lashing for his outfit.
I just wonder: Is this somehow acceptable now and I didn't get the memo?
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Thoughts?
[Photo via flickr.com from El Che]
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