Hartlepool Supporters Warned not to 'Black Up'

[UncleBuck]

Hartlepool supporters warned not to dress up as Bob Marley for last game of the season..

http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/32447466


Maybe I'm out of touch with the modern world as this is bonkers...

 

[tommyt]

Not as bonkers as that broken link...

 

[Geyzer Soze]

Dressing up as bob Marley is racist now, huh?

Good to know.

 

[TheChosenOne]

Not as bonkers as that broken link...

It keeps jamming

 

[Archibald&Crooks]

Dressing up as bob Marley is racist now, huh?

Good to know.

They can dress up as Bob Marley, its the 'blacking up' that's being objected to. They'll object to that (if it happens) but Sol Campbell 'whitens up' and the silence from them is deafening.

 

[punky]

I'd wish certain sections of society would realise that blacking up in the 18th/19th century so as to avoid giving jobs to black people is entirely different from blacking up in the 21st century to represent a revered black person from history.

I'll give them a hint: one is racist, the other is the complete opposite.

 

[punky]

If Bob Marley came back to earth and went to the game and saw a low of fans dressed up as him, would he see it as a sign of respect, touching and funny, or would he find it racist and run off to call the Society Of Black Lawyers?

 

[TheChosenOne]

If Bob Marley came back to earth and went to the game and saw a low of fans dressed up as him, would he see it as a sign of respect, touching and funny, or would he find it racist and run off to call the Society Of Black Lawyers?

I reckon he would be sitting in the main stand with a roof right over his head and as the match ended it Would be a mass exodus down to the docks to watch the Whalers coming in.

Off to have me brekkie ... It's pasta for I today

 

[RickyVilla]

Last home game of the season we should all go as Sol Campbell

 

[Spurger King]

Last home game of the season we should all go as Sol Campbell

I don't think there are enough '****' costumes in England.

 

[RickyVilla]

I don't think there are enough '****' costumes in England.

I was going to go as an Oreo

 

[michaelden]

I don't think there are enough '****' costumes in England.

go in a red sleeping bag, if anyone asks, you're Sol's prolapse

 

[BuryMeInEngland]

I never knew Bob Marley came from Hartlepool. You learn something new every day.

 

[ExpatFan]

If Bob Marley came back to earth and went to the game and saw a low of fans dressed up as him, would he see it as a sign of respect, touching and funny, or would he find it racist and run off to call the Society Of Black Lawyers?

Well, he wouldn't be able to call the Society Of White Lawyers, as it would be racist to form one. However, on the other hand...

 

[talkshowhost86]

I notice the society of blue lawyers were very quiet when they went dressed as smurfs. @Stoof has some explaining to do.

And who knows where the society of penguin lawyers were a couple of years ago.

Penguin lawyers would be cool.

Possibly even cooler than Bob Marley lawyers.

Because they would be racist.

Apparently.

 

[Geyzer Soze]

Hartlepool. Smh. Didn't they hang a monkey thinking it was French once?

 

[StartingPrice]

Hartlepool. Smh. Didn't they hang a monkey thinking it was French once?

True dat. Their local rivals call them the Monkey Hangers. In response, the Hartlepool fans sing We hung the monkey, we'll hang you!

The version of the story I heard was that a monkey escaped from the zoo during the Napoleonic Wars, when fear of a French invasion was at its height. None of the locals had ever seen a Frenchman, so when they saw the monkey they thought it was a French spy and when they caught it decided to give it some rough local justice for plotting to invade Old Blighty.

The moral of the story is, don't go monkeying around in Hartlepool

 

[Ribble]

The moral of the story is, don't go to Hartlepool

fixed

 

[Bulletspur]

If Bob Marley came back to earth and went to the game and saw a low of fans dressed up as him, would he see it as a sign of respect, touching and funny, or would he find it racist and run off to call the Society Of Black Lawyers?

i know it would be the former.

Its Political Correctness gone Mad. As a Black person who grew up in Jamaica I feel honoured and chuffed that Hartlepool are doing this. Bob was black (well dark brown) but if anyone wants to dress and darken their skin to look like an authentic Bob Marley so what? I always thought that "Kick it out" organisation were run bunch of idiots who do not have a clue about real race issues.

 

[punky]

i know it would be the former.

Its Political Correctness gone Mad. As a Black person who grew up in Jamaica I feel honoured and chuffed that Hartlepool are doing this. Bob was black (well dark brown) but if anyone wants to dress and darken their skin to look like an authentic Bob Marley so what? I always thought that "Kick it out" organisation were run bunch of idiots who do not have a clue about real race issues.

I'm so glad to hear you say that.

I can't understand why racism and perception of it seems to be the one area when no context or common sense is allowed to be applied.

There is a scene in the movie Silver Streak where Richard Pryor blacks up Gene Wilder and teaches him to ’walk black’ with a ghettoblaster in order for him to evade the police. When Wilder resists, Pryor delivers this line brilliantly: "What, are you afraid it won't come off?" Its so clever, funny and couldn't be less racist.