People are saying in the 90s but I know we had a guy dressed as a terrorists with a brown face on Halloween day when I was in highschool back in 2002 and no one cared, but maybe it's because slavery isn't part of our history and that part of US culture hadn't influenced us yet... These days people like to act like it wasn't accepted for disguises around here 20 years ago even though it actually was. Hell, I know for a fact we even had some on TV after 2005 and no one cared...

Seriously, was blackface such a rampant thing in the aughts? It seems like everyone was doing it, but I wasn't aware of it at the time.

I'm not sure what year blackface became for reals not okay. Definitely after the mid80s but also definitely before 2000

He's very racist

He was probably searching his memory for a cool black guy and he could only think of 50 cent

But he's exposed how stupid and ignorant he really is being because 50 cent's never had an afro

It was on the ex-wife's blog that was allegedly hacked. Something tells me it wasn't hacked.

A guy I went to HS with did it in '05 on Halloween. Ironically also dressed as 50 cent which is supposedly what this guy was going for (the guy from my HS pulled it off way better tank top, bulletproof vest, doo rag and in shape vs whatever this guy was going for) The kid was fairly popular, and had a lot of black friends that gave him the OK to do it. No one really cared. If anything people couldn't believe it was him because he pulled it off so well. That guy can never get into politics now though, as I'm sure someone would dig up that photo.

I think just about anything would be better than what he said.

I wouldn't say that it was a different time, or anything about the circles I kept.

I'd go with:

Clearly, I was ignorant of the harm my costume could cause. In the seventeen years since that photo, I've learned a lot about Canada's history of racism and how harmful stereotypes further marginalized racialized Canadians. If I had better understood the iniquity that racialized Canadians faced, and continue to face, I never would have engaged in what I now recognize and denounce as a gross and harmful caricature.

My detractors imply that people can't change. They're wrong. People can change, and our town can change. I work hard to make this a thriving, welcoming community and I know that we shouldn't let anyone distract us from the important work we have to do.

I grew up in Texas and was taught that shit like that wasn't even remotely acceptable well before 2007.

If you did blackface after the release of Bamboozled, no pass.

It was a different time... 2007 🤣

That response is certainly better. The type of person to wear blackface is also the type of person who wouldn't apologize, though.

His response could've only been worse/better if he had said "sorry, I learned from my prime minister".

Though at least JT acknowledged it was wrong lol

The brain damage seems to leak from the skull into the hat.

I mean.......they are just following the lead of the Prime Minister

Canada is the US, just 5 - 10 years behind

It's actually so bad. It's like racist stereotype bingo

That's what I was thinking. Most of the time when I see these black face photos surface the make up is like super patchy, clearly applied as like a last minute goof.

This shit looks professionally done. Look how well it's done on his hands especially. This took hours and at no point did he think "mayhap, just mayhap, I should consider a different costume, given I clearly have political aspirations"