"Yeah, but this whole 'having some basic respect towards other people's feelings' is just PC gone MAAAAAAAD I tells ya!"

I still miss the Big Green Angry Minstrel Show.

Was Hulk oppressed? That's the question.

My brother went to a fancy dress thing as the Hulk when we were kids. Circa the Ferrigno/Bixby TV series.

He tore up one of my shirts for his costume. The cunt.

SLJ's look in Pulp Fiction is iconic. So in one way I can see people wanting to do that. But really - it isn't on.

There's a genius clip from The Hulk series were he fights a bear. It is fucking hilarious...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gFoNMBKty4

Kow wrote:

What if he did it without the blackface?

That might actually be hilarious if the hair is recreated satisfactorily.

Ah, page turn.

mk64 wrote:

i'm not racist. 

And maybe thats the reason why I don't see a difference between person X (who is white) buying a samuel jackson mask complete with outfit or painting their face dark to represent the fact SLJ is black to try to look more like him, complete with outfit. 

I do apprecaite that "blacking up" is not cool if you're white trying to replicate looking like an african slave but for a halloween costume I see it no different to painting yourself green to look like the hulk (shit idea btw).

I know someone that blacked up for a halloween party a few years ago as John Coffey from The Green Mile. Dungarees, muscle suit and a little mouse he'd made for his shoulder.

As far as I see it, everyone has to be educated about it at some point. I know about it because I read an article years ago. You can't work it out for yourself if you've got no idea what blackface really is, you've never seen a program or performance with it, you don't know it's history etc. So while it's fun to point and laugh, we're all just at different stages with it. That vid above does a nice, non-condescending job of explaining it.

some really pathetic attempts above at making me look racist or uneducated. I’m neither and fully aware of how people blacking up in the past is inappropriate. I can see how it could be done now in an inappropriate way but if someone really wants to look like Samuel L jackson from Pulp Fiction at a costume party and wants to colour their face to not look even more stupid I don’t see harm in it. It is about context.

If I did that infront of my friends (black or any colour) they wouldn’t batter an eyelid because they know I’m not racist and I’m also not trying to be offensive or highlight any of the oppression the instances cited in this thread refer too.

Whether or not you could avoid any risk of it by just choosing a white person to dress up as is obviously the simplest option. Sounds like the person in question could’ve been perceived as racist - perhaps they are. I wouldn’t wear a nazi uniform which holds inherently racist connotations.

I have black friends who would not think it’s racist if I did it. I wrote that in my post.

mk64 wrote:

I wouldn’t wear a nazi uniform which holds inherently racist connotations.

Blackface does too.

Frankly, you can do what you want in the company of your close friends. It's when it moves outside of that group that it becomes a problem. Some people think what's inoffensive in private is naturally inoffensive in public.

Kara_Jane_Adams wrote:

“I have black a black friend” is something of a trope that is best avoided.

What a stupid thing to say.

I have black friends so if anyone of my friends would be more likely to be offended, if I did what that guy did, it would someone who is black wouldn’t it?

But I’m pointing out they wouldn’t call me a racist if I did it.

It’s a simple point someone as intelligent as you should be able to grasp easily.