">Put yourself in the shoes of someone black and then consider if you might be offended by the "blacking up".

How wonderfully patronizing. How can anybody not black imagine what growing up in a mainly white country is like and assume what they would feel?"

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They don't need to, they can just assume non-whites might be as thin-skinned as all the white people on this thread who take offense to their "tradition" (all 30 years of it) being criticized.