Dustybug Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 One of my fellow church members posted a picture of another church member from 1986(they went to school together at the school attached to my church) where she is dressed up as Aunt Jemima. She is white and had painted herself black. I'm not offended, but I certainly don't like the picture. Would this bother you or am I being too sensitive about it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Night Elf Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 I would feel uncomfortable because of what that character symbolizes, extremely subservient and ecstatically happy about it. I would feel equally uncomfortable if I saw someone dress up as Uncle Tom. It just seems rather weird to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catz Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 That would make me uncomfortable. It seems like an unusual choice of photo to post now. Where/why is it posted? I might not do anything about it depending on the context, but it would bother me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 :iagree: Although if it were for a play showing the past as inequality I wouldn't be as offended. It would depend on the context. Yesterday I was told I was "too tolerant" re: people of color. That was the best compliment they could have given me, even though they didn't mean it as a compliment. ;) I would feel uncomfortable because of what that character symbolizes, extremely subservient and ecstatically happy about it. I would feel equally uncomfortable if I saw someone dress up as Uncle Tom. It just seems rather weird to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dustybug Posted March 14, 2012 Author Share Posted March 14, 2012 The caption says that she dressed up that way for Halloween back then to bother her sister when they went on a double date? The other person posted it to......make fun of her? I'm not really sure. They seem to be joking about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mommaduck Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 (edited) The devil is in the details: what was the context? (sorry, crossposted) Honestly, I would not hold something like that, if it was done twenty-five+ years ago, against someone. People change. What some of us may have grown up with as being "okay", we have since learned is not okay, kwim? Edited March 14, 2012 by mommaduck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remudamom Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 Shake it off. She had color envy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slipper Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 I'd be uncomfortable looking at it and I'd be doubly uncomfortable if I were the person in the picture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrookValley. Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 Depending on the context, that would bother me. I find it offensive. I don't think I'm oversensitive, but I do have a pretty much zero-tolerance policy for racial jokes (if that is what they are making of it, and it sounds like that's exactly what it was). I don't have a problem with the fact that someone dressed up as Aunt Jemima 20+ years ago, thinking it funny ha-ha, but the fact that 20+ years later they don't get why it's not funny--that bothers me. Go with your gut on this one. You say it doesn't feel quite right, and I don't think it is (unless, as others have pointed out, it was in a completely different context). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mommaduck Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 (edited) Shake it off. She had color envy. :lol::lol::lol: love it! You never know...it was stated as a joke to embarrass her sister. It could be that her sister had racial issues and she was poking fun at that. Edited March 14, 2012 by mommaduck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dustybug Posted March 14, 2012 Author Share Posted March 14, 2012 Shake it off. She had color envy. :D:lol: I don't know, I just found it kind of tasteless, you know? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angela in ohio Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 Ewwwww. I'm not an overly PC-ish person at. all., but that is offensive, imho. I agree that she could have changed, so I wouldn't necessarily assume things about her now, but it definitely shouldn't be posted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Florida. Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 It would bother me mostly that the picture was posted. Even 25 years ago, people knew that was wrong, but you could chalk it up to the person being young and foolish. However, why dredge that picture up and post it now? Something like that is best left in the past. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catz Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 It would bother me mostly that the picture was posted. Even 25 years ago, people knew that was wrong, but you could chalk it up to the person being young and foolish. However, why dredge that picture up and post it now? Something like that is best left in the past. :iagree: If I happened across an old picture in a year book or something it wouldn't bother me too much. Everyone does something stupid as a teenager, right? The fact that someone chose to post it publicly now is what I find odd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butter Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 The fact that she did it doesn't bother me. Teens definitely can do stupid/weird things. But the fact that it was posted now? Weird. Did the woman in the picture know the other person was going to post it before hand? I'd be really embarrassed. I'm not even thrilled about a picture a friend posted from her going away party when she moved just because, well, it was the early 90s and the hair. Crazy, crazy hair. But there it is on my FB timeline thingy because she tagged me in the picture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-rap Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 I find it offensive and in poor taste. Even if it was done innocently enough 25 years ago, what is the point of posting it now, especially when there are possible negative connotations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harriet Vane Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 I lived in an African-American neighborhood for fourteen years and was member at African-American churches for 16 years. While your friend may well have been harmless in her intent, this will be perceived as quite offensive by African-Americans. I would take the picture down asap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FaithManor Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 It would bother me on a lot of levels. The most basic level being that the internet is not private and I'm sick to death of people on facebook thinking that they have a right to post pictures of other people without written permission. Seriously, there are a lot of wackadoos out there. I don't want my picture and most certainly NOT my children's used without permission. That's the most basic level that bothers me. Back in high school, I was not the mature person that I am now and well, there are many photos that I look back at and think "WHAT WAS I THINKING????" and would not be thrilled to see if splashed over the internet. Even a church play taken out of context can be rather damaging....what about Dh when he played the devil (for lack of another tenor who could hit those notes really well) for the scene in which Christ was tempted in the church Easter Passion? The make-up and costume job was pretty scary looking and that's not something he'd want out there for the world to see out of context! Faith Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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