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Daniel O'Brien <[log in to unmask]>
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Film and TV Studies Discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 19 Dec 1996 17:41:26 -0500
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In a message dated 96-12-19 12:13:13 EST, Krin Gabbard writes:
 
<< It seems to me that the green face in _Mask_ is really blackface.  ...
young white men have internalized a black paradigm of masculinity for almost
two
centuries now.  ... adolescent boys conceptualize it when they first begin to
emulate black models of masculinity.  >>
 
I reply:
 
   That's silly!  Why do so many people always want to reduce every symbol
and every device into a Black/White thing.
 
   Not everyone is s a racist!
 
Danny O'Brien
 
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