Ghost Of Blackface Past

Many politicians, most recently Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, have admitted to wearing blackface when they were younger.

“I shouldn’t have done that. I should have known better and I didn’t. I’m really sorry,” he told reporters. “I didn’t consider it racist at the time, but now we know better.”

Racism is absurd and all of us, irrespective of the colour of our skin, ought to realize that if we do not admit that certain behaviour can be considered as denigrating by others we remain at an infantile state of mind.

“The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify.” — Chinua Achebe