THE STORY OF "BLACKFACE!"

 

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THE STORY OF 

"BLACKFACE!"

Justin Trudeau of the family that "runs" Canada, recently got himself in "trouble" just before the recent "election." It seems he dressed as a "Blackface" a time or two back in the days he was a dorky teenybopper! Today, that is a big NO NO! Although "ex post facto prosecution" is illegal in the United States, that does not keep the "Woke Mob" from having a hernia over "Blackface." In spite of my dislike for the Trudeau family and their insane policies over the years, I still do not like to see anyone falsely accused or maligned.

Notice the effort Trudeau went to in order to make the COSTUME detailed and believable!

Here is another one of Trudeau's "Blackface" pictures. He says he does not remember how many such pictures there are and whether or not they will "surface!"

So, what WAS "Blackface," anyway? Frankly it was a COSTUME! It was very popular at high school get togethers! I never played the part, but played many other roles in school and even my high school senior year. I played a "woman" once, for instance. My mother stuffed the back of my rump and the front of my chest with PILLOWS to simulate the "other gender," and I cavorted around on stage much to the amusement of everyone. The pillows kept "sagging," of course, and I struggled to "keep them up!" We did not have many OBESE people back then, so there were few who were "offended." Many would dress as clowns, pirates, pilots, Winnie-the-poo, the Tin Man, the Wizard of Oz and a host of others. Some were pretty darn clever. A Negro youth (that is what they were politely called back then) dressed up as a "white man" in "Whiteface!" He used CHALK to paint his face! This lad was a joker of the finest order and he got a richly deserved "barrel of laughs." NOBODY found it "upsetting!"

But, in today's insane world where everything is upside-down and inside-out for EVIL REASONS, "Blackface" is a horrible "sin!" It is funny to watch supposedly mature adults spout this rubbish! It is helpful to KNOW that in the 1930's there were practically NO BLACK ACTORS. If you wanted a black actor, you got a White or Jewish man to dress up as "Blackface!" AMOS 'N ANDY was an extremely funny, funny radio show about black families and their foibles. The character voices all spoke "plantation English," and sounded just like the real people! The show was a favorite among both blacks and whites. The audio cassettes of ALL the old radio shows can be found on and bought off the internet! Walt Disney Studios was one of the first to combine animation with live actors in SONG OF THE SOUTH. Disney today hardly even acknowledges the great show, but copies can be found for sale on the internet. The show features an almost all black cast of elders and youngsters with beautiful music ( ZIP-E-DA-DOO-DAH for example). The show was a big hit! Uncle Remus was the featured 80 year old black man who told his folk tales to black and white youngsters alike.

These are screenshots taken from the SONG OF THE SOUTH trailer you can find on the internet!

 The stories were rich in folklore, morals and lessons. The COMPLTE TALES OF UNCLE REMUS in book form (over 700 pages) is available for purchase on the internet, but marginalized and suppressed by by cultural idiots. The book is a classic of classics and features lots of "line drawings."

Here we feature the Front Cover Jacket of THE TALES OF UNCLE REMUS and an example of illustrations using the "line drawing" technique.

 During the same time frame, along came GONE WITH THE WIND, a classic movie of the Old South based partly on the book by William A. Fletcher, who enlisted in the Confederate Army, called REBEL PRIVATE: FRONT AND REAR. I have written published articles about him and the movie. The movie featured a black woman who played a leading role. She even got an award for her performance in GONE WITH THE WIND. Today, Hollywood is so full of "black performers" it is way out of proportion to reality!

The front cover of Fletcher's book, written years after the War between the States.

But it gets better!

Did you know the STATE OF CALIFORNIA published "Blackface, too??! It is easy to prove! In the 1950's, a California State textbook called "MUSIC HORIZONS 5" (for fifth graders) featured all the great American patriotic songs, The Star Spangled Banner, The Marines Hymn, Columbia the Gem of the Ocean, America the Beautiful, music from around the World, cowboy songs from the Old West (one written by students at a New Jersey school, no less!), Civil War Songs and so on. One of them "DIXIE," was featured on pages 186/187. You will notice "Blackface" used in the picture on page 187! These were men dressed up in costume, typical of the day and times! I only have a copy of this rare volume because the state was destroying them at the time to make way for new material. I managed to salvage a copy and it is now a treasured historical book in my research library!

The California State Textbook, Front Cover, the Copyright Page (1950) and the two pages featuring "DIXIE" in typical "Blackface" costume!

Today, "DIXIE" is a "bad deal," so they tell us. But it is not true! Abraham Lincoln loved the tune and made it FEDERAL PROPERTY just before he was assassinated! The story can by found in Burke Davis' book about the South. I have copied the cover (still in pristine condition) from my research library and the two pages that refer comments Lincoln made about Dixie! Look at the bottom of the first page and follow the rest of the story at the top of the second page. He said that now that we "own the South," we will show them we can "keep their song" and "they can too!" This sort of a story drives the "Woke Crazies" even crazier! Even naïve Lincoln could never have foreseen that more than 150 years later, the "Woke Insane Asylum" would find "DIXIE" a bad deal!

Burke Davis' classic book about the South and the two pages describing Lincoln's feelings about the song "DIXIE!"

So, now that you have learned some truths about "Blackface," you can stop listening to the sadists who try to make political hay out of innocent costuming.

Leave "Blackface" alone where it belongs It's COSTUME and to suggest otherwise is a fraud.....

Written and Produced

by

Harald Hesstvedt Scharnhorst

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