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User Name	Thread Name	Subject	Posted
Howard Jones	Black-faced Morris dancers (286* d)	RE: Black-faced Morris dancers	16 Oct 14
All the images I've seen of Jim Crow show the character wearing ragged and patched clothes, but nothing resembling the tatter coats worn by Border morris sides. Les quotes the mixed-race caller Nigel Hogg who says he sees black up morris sides as "a parody mocking people of colour". Of course he's entitled to his opinion, but I really cannot see anything in morris, from the kit to the dances, that suggest they are mocking black people. The only possible offence is the colour used on the faces. To repeat the point I made earlier, if morris were mocking black people then painting the faces a different colour, or not at all, would not disguise this.

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