So help me out here. (non-political). It is racist to dress up as Bob

Marley?

Full disclosure: I love reggae. I honeymooned in Jamaica. One son was married there. One grandson is named Elijah Marley.

I can see dressing up as a minstrel is racist. But honoring Bob Marley? It appears to have been a woman dressed as Marley. From what I know about Bob, he would probably have been flattered.

Say what you may about Rastafarians. As Keef once noted: I am not sure how a bunch of black Jamaicans figured out that they were the Lost Tribe of Israel. Rastafarians are a pious bunch. They read the OT -- in the KJV -- they are not Christians.

Reggae is generally positive. Marley in particular was very positive. "Don't worry about a thing, cause every little thing, gonna be all right."

From the article (N&O), full link included.

A Garner restaurant is apologizing after posting photos on social media of a Halloween costume contest in which a white customer wore blackface.

It happened last Thursday as part of an all-day costume contest at Angie’s Restaurant in Garner. The diner appears to have dressed as Bob Marley, with fake dreadlocks hanging out of a baggy, red, green and yellow hat. Her face was entirely darkened with makeup.

The owners of Angie’s Restaurant, Angie Mikus and Jimmy Yeargan, condemned and apologized for the incident. The restaurant took no action while the customer was in the restaurant.

When photos of the contest, including the woman in blackface, were posted Friday on the restaurant’s Facebook page, a backlash quickly ensued. Ultimately, the racist costume ended up canceling the restaurant’s contest, for which the prize was a free meal every day for the rest of 2019. The restaurant removed the photo album from its Facebook page, though screenshots of the diner in blackface were shared elsewhere.

On Saturday, Mikus posted an apology to the Angie’s Restaurant Facebook page.

“I first would like to say how sorry and truly heartbroken I am for the hurt I caused,” the post reads.

Read more here: https://www.newsobserver.com/living/food-drink/article237027184.html#storylink=cpy
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So help me out here. (non-political). It is racist to dress up as Bob -- Lazarus 11/07/2019 07:12AM

It is the blackface part that did it. She could have done the whole costume -- southdenverhoo 11/07/2019 08:26AM

Even with no blackface, still too close a call and bound to offend some -- WahooRQ 11/07/2019 10:18AM

Which is stupid I think. I get that the blackface needs to be dropped given -- BocaHoo91 11/07/2019 10:44AM

Just drop the blackface. Too much negative history. ** -- Shenhoo 11/07/2019 08:31AM

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It shouldn't be considered such, BUT, given the publicity this issue has -- Late 80s Hokie 11/07/2019 07:57AM

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Obama, for one, agrees with you as I understand it. ** -- hoolstoptheheels 11/07/2019 10:31AM

Can a black person use white face? Michael Jackson did... ** -- Tuckahokie 11/07/2019 08:27AM

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