Outrage Over This Photo Shaming Two Men In Full Blackface At "Aussie Icons" Party
BuzzFeed - Latest 2016-02-01
Summary:
One Indigenous Australian rapper is now identifying and exposing Facebook commenters who don’t think blackface is racist.
On Sunday, Facebook user Sis Austin posted a photo of two former friends she went to high school with. The two men in the photo are painted completely black while attending an "Aussie Icon"-themed party reportedly in Ballarat, Australia.
The two men painted their entire bodies like Aboriginal men in ceremonial body paint and wore traditional lap laps.
Sis Austin / Facebook
"I confronted the individual who casually uploaded this photo after an 'Aussie Icon'-themed party last night," Austin wrote. "The individual and a group of this person's friends all stood up and argued that this is not racism."
Sis Austin / Facebook
"We must not be blinded to the racism in this country, and remember, observers are equally as disgusting as the offenders themselves," she wrote. After her initial post started getting attention, Austin posted more photos of the men in blackface.
Sis Austin / Facebook
Austin's Facebook post was then seen by Indigenous Australian rapper Adam Briggs. Briggs shared the post to his Facebook page which has almost 40,000 likes.
