Nice try guest!

1. Many many defos on the big R - mocking people is a smal r but a bad one

2. "anyone blacking their faces while dancing morris to adhere to the "tradition" of out of work farm lads disguising themselves to dance and "beg" money to tide themselves over fall into either of the above definitions however historically factual that tradition may or may not be." - almost entirely unrelated to Border - with it's big boots in Minstrelsey

3. "Threads such as this simply give a platform for people to criticise anything they do not understand or like" - true most post supporting Blackface show all sorts of ignorance - not least of the history of Morros.

3. "but they do not have the right to accuse anyone of something as vile as racism without evidence that this is actually what is intended. " -

4. have you read the stuff above about "The piece goes on to discuss the incorporation of blacking up into "traditional" events: "There would seem to be little doubt that the black faces of the traditional morris dance groups of the Welsh Border counties were at least influenced by minstrelsy. The occasional use of banjoes, bones and tambourines in these morris dances cannot be mere coincidence."???????