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'kick It Out' Tell Hartlepool To Banned Fans
Hartlepool United fans have planned a fancy dress 'Bob Marley' theme for their last game of the season. Fans will don dreadlock wigs and rata colours.
This follows a similar last day dress up last year when hundreds of fans watched the final game dressed as Smurfs.
However, 'Kick it Out' the anti racism in football campaigners have told Hartlepool fans that they mustn't 'blacken up' for the part. And have insisted that any fans arriving that are blackened up, be refused admittance to the ground.
Are 'Kick it Out' right to insist on such a ban?
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This follows a similar last day dress up last year when hundreds of fans watched the final game dressed as Smurfs.
However, 'Kick it Out' the anti racism in football campaigners have told Hartlepool fans that they mustn't 'blacken up' for the part. And have insisted that any fans arriving that are blackened up, be refused admittance to the ground.
Are 'Kick it Out' right to insist on such a ban?
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Hartlepool United fans 'blued up' last season...
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Reminiscent of a couple of recent-ish cases:
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I'll re-post my response from the second thread above (page 8) ...
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MO Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall "whiting up" in "Coming To America" is the funniest part of the film. I understand that other white people may find it offensive, but this white person would find it objectionable if the opinions of other white people were allowed to spoil his enjoyment of films like that.
When it comes to "blacking up", the problem is there's a history associated with it. If, nowadays, the blacking up is in the same spirit as the whiting up above then I don't see a problem with it; if it's harking back to the historical mockery then there is a problem, obviously. If all blacking up is verboten because of the history, then that history lives on in creating division and tension; it has to be allowed in the right context.
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I'll re-post my response from the second thread above (page 8) ...
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MO Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall "whiting up" in "Coming To America" is the funniest part of the film. I understand that other white people may find it offensive, but this white person would find it objectionable if the opinions of other white people were allowed to spoil his enjoyment of films like that.
When it comes to "blacking up", the problem is there's a history associated with it. If, nowadays, the blacking up is in the same spirit as the whiting up above then I don't see a problem with it; if it's harking back to the historical mockery then there is a problem, obviously. If all blacking up is verboten because of the history, then that history lives on in creating division and tension; it has to be allowed in the right context.
Perhaps they should have told Sol Campbell?
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Well if you're going to use actual black paint to black up and wear a funny wig to appear hilarious then yes it is racist but if you're going to spend thousands on makeup and professional movie latex and hair to replicate Bob Marley then you should be allowed to do it but then who would?
A cheap and inoffensive way to do this is to simply print this
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and put string around it making an effective and non racist way to attend. Agree?
A cheap and inoffensive way to do this is to simply print this
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and put string around it making an effective and non racist way to attend. Agree?
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