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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGucci issues apology following backlash over sweater that appears to resemble blackface
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I can't...
Caliman73
(11,742 posts)Gucci has no people of color on their staff who are high enough in the organization to make decisions. OR No one at Gucci knows anything about American History as it relates to Black Americans. OR There is an inordinate amount of privilege in the decision making structure.
Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)So maybe they are clueless to this.
tirebiter
(2,538 posts)Looks more like a moustache and beard or a lucha libre mask.
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)Im just too tired say any more than thats really effed up
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Get real for sanity's sake.
Jeebus.
TheBlackAdder
(28,211 posts).
Stereotypically defined with excessively dark skin and accentuated red lips.
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democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Emulating MJ or rappers actually honors their fame and musical accomplishments.
TheBlackAdder
(28,211 posts).
It's funny that I don't see any blackface at real cosplay events.
So, when Taco released Puttin' on the Ritz, he was honoring Al Jolson's era who was honoring African-Americans.
Yet, he felt compelled to reissue it, because his original version became censored from broadcast, 25 years ago.
Uncensored Original version:
Reissued Official version:
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democratisphere
(17,235 posts)level of absurdity. I do not consider the turtleneck to be racist and I am sure the manufacturer didn't either.
TheBlackAdder
(28,211 posts).
For them not to even consider it racist, shows how ingrained racism is within them.
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Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)This isn't a murder trial. It doesn't matter what Gucci intended. What matters is the sweater evokes racist imagery. People have a right to be updet about that.
912gdm
(959 posts)I get art and fashion, but 'fashion' gets more absurd year after year.
ETA:
Eugene
(61,937 posts)https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2019/feb/07/gucci-withdraws-jumper-blackface-balaclava
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)(although very often used to hide one's identity while committing a crime). Are we now not allowed to wear black ski masks that protect our faces from cold and snow? Children wear them all the time.
Yosemito
(648 posts)?
Vinca
(50,300 posts)The only crime that sweater commits is being ugly and probably stupidly expensive.
melm00se
(4,993 posts)the fear of blackface will drive the discontinuing of balaclavas
hack89
(39,171 posts)black face with red lips is an old racist trope in England.
TheBlackAdder
(28,211 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)problems, growing substantially worse during these anxious, mean, reactionary period, and also histories of black-face whatevers.
Wonder if this came in other colors. Just taking the black choice off the market would work fine. Uh, no to browns also...