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Saturday, February 02, 2019

Seeing Racism Everywhere: Photo Of Soot-Covered Coal Miners Criticized For ‘Blackface’

The New York Times isn’t the only outlet claiming white people with soot on their faces are actually portraying “blackface.” For the Times, it was Mary Poppins and the chimney sweepers.

For an opinion writer for the Arizona Central, part of USA Today, it was a photo of blue-collar workers having a drink after work.

Opinion contributor Rashaad Thomas says he was in Phoenix recently at a holiday party. The restaurant he was in had photographs on the wall, as many do, but one in particular stood out to him. This photo showed a group of seven or so coal miners, covered head to toe in soot, their faces blackened to varying degrees, drinking beer at a pub. The photo also shows one man who doesn’t appear to be covered in soot and an unhappy woman.

Thomas’ friends told him, “It’s coal miners at a pub after work.” He “asked a Latinx and white woman for their opinion.” The two said the photo appeared to be of coal workers having a drink after work.

This didn’t sit well with Thomas, who asked to speak to a manager.

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8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Somewhere there's a picture of a soot covered African American coal miner.

Anonymous said...

Such stupidity! Nothing less from the left would be expected!

Anonymous said...

Just another case of a looney liberal trying to turn an innocent situation into a race fueled argument.

Anonymous said...

I find liberals offensive. Please remove them.

Anonymous said...

Somewhere there's people with more common sense and worse things to worry about in life! To all the churches and idiots that support the likes of Jake Day and a zoo gender agenda I'm praying for you

Anonymous said...

African American coal miner,,,🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

C’mon we all know better

Anonymous said...

This petty crap is getting old. They blame it on Trump, but blacks were content and doing well in life until the so called black dude (undetermined) arrived at the white house and created a atmosphere that has this society in a tizzy over anything and everything. You that voted for him are at fault in screwing this great country up and causing that turd to prosper and live large (still). MAGA

Anonymous said...

You cannot ask for better proof as to how stupid they are.