tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12392119.post325196580080844949..comments2023-10-25T03:24:19.388-07:00Comments on Further Adventures of Indigo Red: Mime or Racist - Robert Downey, Jr in Black MakeupIndigo Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07488424336985581412noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12392119.post-28440574525153415772008-03-08T23:27:00.000-08:002008-03-08T23:27:00.000-08:00There was a story last year in February, Black His...There was a story last year in February, Black History Month, when a black student portrayed Abraham Lincoln and everybody was okay with that.<BR/><BR/>Another story involved a white student in a different school who read Dr. King's Dream speech as Martin Luther King. That was didn't meet with the same ho-hum reaction. A white kid portraying King was just wrong.Indigo Redhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17906787350123925867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12392119.post-8083624622429561512008-03-07T22:54:00.000-08:002008-03-07T22:54:00.000-08:00Is it racist when a fair skinned black-american pa...Is it racist when a fair skinned black-american passes themselves off as white?<BR/>I suppose it would be different if R.Downey, Jr. was making fun of Black Americans, but I didn't recognize him because he 'became' his part so well. <BR/>Isn't that what we have been told to do... walk a mile in someones shoes in order to feel what they feel, to try to understand.<BR/>And wasn't it racist to begin with that the part was written for a black-american instead of a white, or hispanic or asian?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com