Someone I know recently held a fancy dress party with the theme 'black guys' and posted the pictures on fb. Amongst them there were photos of people with blacked up faces, some with all over brown body paint and some with wigs with dreads attached etc. Some people had dressed up as actual characters eg will smith in men in black and some had literally just blacked up. I was really shocked that this was a) thought up as a good idea and b) enough people had thought it was a good idea to constitute a party. I actually unfriended the person on fb (we aren't close, I no longer live near them, they probably haven't noticed) because I just felt they clearly had completely different values to me.
Anyway I mentioned this to two friends this week and they said they saw nothing wrong with it, it was just a bit of fun and it wasn't offensive.
AIBU to find it horrible?
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'Black guy's fancy dress party. Surely I am not BU?!
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User24689 · 26/08/2016 13:05
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