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From: "Kismet" <kismet-AT-bigpond.net.au>
To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 07:08:31 +1000
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] An Alumni Week surprise with puppet protest reaction


Of course the other connection with black face is the Morris Dancing of the 
Cotswalds, England. Cant remember the significance but they often painted 
their faces black, probable to look more scarry, but it had NOTHING to do 
with disparaging Negro's.

D.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Moynihan" <mmoynihan-AT-wi.rr.com>
To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 11:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] An Alumni Week surprise with puppet protest reaction


> Reminded me of my favorite "blackface" production.
> 1967, SFMT, The Minstrel Show or Civil Rights in a Cracker Barrel
> Multi-racial cast, where both African American and Caucasian
> performers wore blackface.
> Did benefits for the NAACP. Toured the deep south.
> Different times indeed.
> - moynihan
>
> On May 4, 2008, at 9:41 PM, Alan Cook wrote:
>
>> ...To my surprise there was a BIG CONTROVERSY throughout Alumni
>> activities. Some idiot discovered that our Alma Mater was first
>> performed as the finale of a blackface minstrel show, 1909/1910 and
>> made photocopies of this information, and suddenly some delicate
>> souls of at least some African descent decided to play victim and to
>> feel "uncomfortable" if the Alma Mater was sung, resultng in the
>> decsion by the current President of the College to be DREADFULLY
>> "understanding" of this "discomfort"and he decided that for this
>> Alumni Week and the forthcoming graduation ceremonies, that the Alma
>> Mater would not be sung.
>>
>> What passes for "political correctness" seems to change on a weekly
>> or even daily basis, and usually leads to some idiotic decision(s)...
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