Morris dancers reluctantly ditch 500-year-old
blackface tradition and perform with their
faces painted green instead for the first time
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Henry Martin
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
12/28/2021 8:16:01 PM
A troupe of Morris dancers have ditched their 500-year-old blackface tradition amid a racism row and have performed for the first time while painted green today. Silurian Border Morrismen had voted to scrap the black face paint for their Boxing Day Tour to avoid causing offence in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement.
The group today performed their English folk dance routine to crowds of onlookers in Ledbury, Herefordshire, with their faces painted dark green instead.(Snip)It is believed black soot was historically worn by the English folk dancers as a disguise so they could beg for money without getting in trouble with the law.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Toby Ten Bears 12/28/2021 8:38:13 PM (No. 1021363)
You will cave to the negro... or else.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 12/28/2021 9:30:57 PM (No. 1021456)
We were visiting the British National Motor Museum in Beaulieu, England a few years ago, and out in a large open area trooped about 25 REALLY oddly dressed (old looking, strange clothes, funny hats, all mismatched) and face-painted men and women, with drums and such noisemakers, and a lot of feathers, too. They began some sort of a dancing routine. VERY odd. We had absolutely no idea what we were seeing.
A few minutes later in the souvenir store, with large windows so these dancers could be seen, we asked "Who are they and what are they doing?" The cash register person (native Brit) said, "Oh, those are the Morris people, a bit daft, if you ask me."
"Uh, why are they dressed up and painted up like that?"
"I don't know, just something that they do. They seem harmless enough."
"Uh, OK, thanks."
Totally weird, and we asked a few other people standing around watching if they knew what this was about, and none of the Brits had much of an idea, other than being familiar with their antics. No idea why they did it.
People do really strange things in their spare time.
As to the green vs black......remember Kermit said, "It ain't easy being green."
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DVC 12/28/2021 10:32:39 PM (No. 1021501)
This would be an example of about what we saw.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/0b/29/4b/0b294b9ae52e9d0242fa8f7a1fd29a65.jpg
In looking for online pix of these Morris dancers.....many wore matching, nice uniforms, same hats, no black face. Not like what we saw, more like this with the strips of odd cloth hanging from knees, lots of feathers.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Highlander 12/29/2021 12:40:24 AM (No. 1021543)
Why does everything have to yield to the black snowflakes?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 12/29/2021 2:13:55 AM (No. 1021558)
So now the Morris dance group is appropriating culture from Orion slave girls. This is bound to PO Captain Kirk.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Trigger2 12/29/2021 4:31:49 AM (No. 1021577)
How "woke" of them. They're just another demonrat commie organization who will bite the dust. Another fitting end.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
anniebc 12/29/2021 7:11:04 AM (No. 1021654)
Well, who freakin cares?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Strike3 12/29/2021 7:35:16 AM (No. 1021670)
The protests will soon be coming from GLM.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
JrSample 12/29/2021 7:40:47 AM (No. 1021676)
Now, that problem is solved maybe something can be done about the high out-of-wedlock birth rate, high drop-out rate, poor literacy, teen pregnancy, illicit narcotics, crime, homicides, substandard inner-city schools....
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
lakerman1 12/29/2021 7:48:55 AM (No. 1021680)
Use puce, to honor Barack.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 12/29/2021 12:12:18 PM (No. 1022003)
I always thought the Morris Dancers were a bit silly but, hey, tradition. They still have a Royal Family after hundreds of years. As OP said, if they hate the mostly white country they live in, they are free to return to Africa. They won't, of course, Life in the western countries is much easier and safer (for now).
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The soot on the faces had nothing to do with mimicking bLACK people. Instead of changing anything that might offend the hothouse flowers, why not return any disgruntled Africans to their place of origin where they can have their traditions and we can have ours? That's real multiculturalism, and it's essential for the survival of nations and different types of people.