Every year hundreds and hundreds of people with blacked-up faces dance past my house. (Folk festival, not marijuana...) Many groups come from abroad, including USA.

They tell me the origin was in Wales, something about not letting the mine owner know you weren't in chapel on a Sunday!

It's just fun I think. If black people made a serious objection it would have to stop no doubt. But white Guardian columnists .... not so much.

nigelswift wrote:
It's just fun I think. If black people made a serious objection it would have to stop no doubt. But white Guardian columnists .... not so much.
That's the point though. We're viewing it from our white perspective. Much as pagans may be viewing the swastika from their non-Jewish perspective.