[Livia]

Originally Posted by SherzyK

Fair enough but I was referring to contemporary blackface and how people these days use blackface. I’m allowed to be shocked at something that offends me Liv. You have to agree that racism is very much prevelant to this day and back then black people took most of the brunt when it comes discrimination.

I know this: Jews are the most abused minority in the UK right now. But like I said, I've never heard of a Jew complaining because someone made their face up like a Jew to play Shylock. It's not only black people who face discrimination and if you're going to change the past as well as the future, you've got to do it for all minority groups, not just black people.

What did you think about my comment about a white West End star refused permission to sing a song from Dream Girls because she's white? If a black woman was refused the right to sing a song purely based on the colour of her skin there would quite rightly be uproar. But this story seems to have been accepted as normal.