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RSS FeedsTrudeau says he didn´t know in 2001 that blackface was wrong. Experts say that doesn´t sound right
(The Star Canada)

 
 

20 september 2019 05:46:00

 
Trudeau says he didn´t know in 2001 that blackface was wrong. Experts say that doesn´t sound right
(The Star Canada)
 


On Wednesday night, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau apologized for wearing brownface to an Arabian Nights themed party, saying he didn`t know such behaviour was wrong at the time. But experts in anti-Black racism reacted with skepticism, saying such acts have always been racist, and that there had been public debate over such issues long before 2001.“There was never a time when blackface was okay,” says Kathy Hogarth, a University of Waterloo associate professor in social work, though she says blackface and racism have also always been acceptable to some people. “The level of acceptance with something that is wrong doesn’t make it right.”Trudeau has been under fire since Time magazine published a photo of him wearing brownface makeup and a turban at a party hosted by West Point Grey Academy, a private school in Vancouver where Trudeau, then 29, was a teacher.In a news conference, he acknowledged it was racist and that he shouldn’t have done it, and also admitted a second instance in which he sang “Day-O” in blackface. Then on Thursday morning, Global News posted a new video clip of Trudeau in blackface, sticking his tongue out, during the early 1990s.Experts say it’s hard to accept the Liberal leader’s claim that he didn’t know better back then because blackface, the act of painting one’s skin a dark colour, is steeped in racism, and well before 2001, opposition to this type of exaggerated imitation had been raging. “It’s totally disingenuous,” says Rinaldo Walcott, director of the University of Toronto’s Women & Gender Studies Institute. “By 2001, when he would have been 29 years old, there would have been debates around these concerns.”Blackface was part of the getup used in minstrel shows performed first in 1830s New York, in which white actors with darkened faces, exaggerated lips and tattered clothing mimicked African slaves and plantation workers. ...


 
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