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Liberal reporter triggered by old photo of coal miners covered in soot
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[quote:Ladedah:MV8zOTY1ODQ2XzcxNzE3MzM2XzZBQ0M3OTJD] [quote:Revbo™:MV8zOTY1ODQ2XzcxNzE2MzY5XzNGQjhGNzlE] That manager played this all wrong. You don’t give an inch to these snowflakes. You tell him it’s coal miners, not blackface, and if he doesn’t like it he can go fuck himself. [/quote] My great-grandpa was one of those "blackfaces". "Recruiters" brought him and my great grandma over from their war-torn old country along with a bunch of other refugee types, and worked the whole town for a pittance at slave wages, just like the old "company store" idea. But he died at 34 in a cave in, leaving his widow with 5 kids. (along with thousands of others who died of coal mine accidents during those years.) I found his death record in the archives and noticed that they blamed it on "miner error." Don't they realize that lots of immigrants, whatever color, were no better off than slaves? Probably slave-life in some cases were better than those miners had it. [/quote]
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Then a photograph caught my attention.
Friends said, “It’s coal miners at a pub after work.” It was a photograph of coal miners with blackened faces. I asked a Latinx and white woman for their opinion. They said it looked like coal miners at a pub after work. Then they stepped back, frowned and said it’s men in blackface.
I asked the waitress to speak with a manager. Instead, I spoke with a white restaurant owner. I explained to him why the photograph was offensive. Evidently, someone else had made a similar comment about the photograph before.
Yet, the photograph remained on the wall. He said he would talk to the other owners and get back to me. While leaving, I asked him had he spoke with the other owners. He had not spoken with them, but mentioned Google said it's coal miners after work.
In art, everyone sees something different
Who determines what's offensive?
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