Perhaps they should enlist the help of the Glamorous Grandma in Flash Company, I think she would carry a stronger message if she wished to be involved.

As Flash Company show, there are fashions in Morris, as in any living pursuit. Morris sides, these days, paint their faces in whatever colour suits the side's preferrences. The PC brigade load their predjucies on YOU. Burnt cork is not paint, it is a whole universe. Like religion - it is a belief system and logic or fact have no place in stongly held beliefs.

Mind you - there have been a few sides who were better for hiding their identities in modern times as well, though for less commendable reasons.