My niece has a dress up evening this weekend at her dance club. She is 8. She has learned the Beyonce single ladies dance and has a black leotard, black dance shoes (with little heels) and a metal type glove. Her hair will be styled like the video. She will have some makeup mainly a smokey eye.
She is white and will not be wearing fake tan or anything that would change her skin colour.
She was at my house yesterday practicing and my friend asked her what she was doing. After my friend left she texted me to say she thought it was awful the I was teaching DN cultural appropriation and allowing her to do blackface. I responded she wasn't. My friend is white if that is relevant. Since then I have had another friend say something similar.
Could DN's act be seen as cultural appropriation and blackface? Are we being unreasonable to allow her to do it?
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Mrbluethecatt · 30/05/2017 13:50
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