Quote Originally Posted by Peter View Post
It evokes decades of racism in the entertainment industry where blacked up white people were preferred to, you know, black people.

It is also one of the many reasons why It Aint Half Hot Mum is no longer considered acceptable for TV.
Eh? As a child I used to spend time backstage with the Black & White Minstrels. Geoff Love, what a musician! But I digress. Explain to me how the Black & White Minstrels could possibly be constued as racist? They were celebrating southern American black culture, for Christ's sake!

You people would see racism in anything, I swear.