US-SSR wrote:Des-Bal wrote:Blackface is painting your face black and imitating a black person. A blackout is when fans and students show unity by all dressing in black, carrying black placards with some particularly spirited people painting their bodies like people do at any game. It exactly as racist as a whiteout game Ala Penn state. This was not racial.
According to the black basketball players who were being mocked and threatened by Covington crackers who painted their white skins black, it was racist. Ergo, it was racist, QED.
Knock that off right now. There's no reason to use that term.