Thanks very much for a thoughtful and reasoned reply Henry. 1).The evidence for the "Roots" of Black faces lying with Minstrelsy, is by no means conclusive, - sorry it is - I have posted the evidence before but people generally just ignore it. Instruments? Saxophones I have seen in Morris Bands - Blackface is claimed to have it's roots 16 C 17C 18C - free reads are much later. I have no problem with any of that but if people cherry pick which bits of history they are following the need to understand history and evidence. As for who is offended to be clear almost nobody knows - isn't that the truth? But some Black People are - not many but yes some are. "and I believe that the actual numbers offended are smaller than you might imagine" You can believe and imagine what you like - that's not evidence. What in the microscopic world of Border Morris stopping people from just using other colours?
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