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punkfolkrocker Calling time on Blackface Morris (247* d) RE: Calling time on Blackface Morris 08 Jul 20


I'm an aging bloke who grew up in the 1960s,
when some attitudes were unquestioned as the socially acceptable norm..

Compromise and change, can be unwanted and uncomfortable..
But sometimes painfully unavoidable...

There are some things I'd like to still do and say,
but can't anymore,
out of consideration and respect for other folks who now see the world
differently than I used to..

If it wasn't for far right British Nationalists
cynically latching onto and exploiting 'Blackface morris'
as a convenient vehicle for their insidious propaganda and recruitment;
it might not have become such a red hot issue,
as it is right now...

Blackface has been on precarious ground for years,
increasingly difficult to defend why it should continue.
Any reasonable old arguments in favour, are not so sufficient anymore

But the final nail in it's coffin,
is the far right adopting 'British Blackface Tradition' as a symbol to rally around
in provocative defiance of BLM progress...




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