This is the last time I am going to state again my balanced view on this subject. Read it, or don't (more likely!)

Morris dancers generally do not intend to offend anyone.

Blackface risks offending a lot of people. Whether those people are right to be offended, or wrong and need educating, if you can't understand that fact of the offence then you are profoundly stupid.

So you must understand the concern of the school.

Blackface morris is not important - any colour will do.

On the testimony of the person who invented border morris about 40 years ago, the darn thing isn't even a real tradition.

A lot of you know me very well and you know that I enjoy border, and other morris, including blackface. However, I don't have a dogmatic attachment to totems. I would fight to protect our genuine traditions, but won't waste time and effort on frippery. Fight the good fight!

So what are we saying? if We're not fighting for a tradition; what are we fighting for?

I just think that it would have been better that the kids got to see morris and so I think that we should be circumspect and flexible on the issue of face-colour.