Sunday, January 29, 2017

Blackface Aboriginal gown dress up: Adam Briggs slams ‘redneck scumbags’



Victorian woman and indigenous education worker Sis Austin shared pics taken from a party on the weekend after confronting the person who uploaded them to social media.
in one image  guys are dressed as Aborigines with their faces painted black.
any other image taken from the equal birthday party indicates a woman with a painted black face, dressed like 2000 Olympic gold medallist Cathy Freeman.
however Daylesford girl Ms Austin ended up on the receiving quit and became referred to as a bully and terrible character who ought to be ashamed of herself for sharing the pics.
the two as but unidentified men had attended an Aussie icon birthday party near Learmonth soccer club in Victoria on Saturday.
The pics have been taken with the aid of what she calls “those who had been her excessive faculty friends” and “a few close ones at that”.
that modified once she raised the factor it turned into disrespectful to indigenous Australians.
Ms Austin’s put up quickly went viral and changed into picked up through high-profile indigenous rapper and Yorta Yorta man Adam Briggs who went on to proportion the put up, and said anybody defending the guys can cross and “**** themselves”.
Briggs described the pair as “redneck scumbags” on facebook.
however at the same time as the hip hop artist ended up getting a variety of support, many jumped to the defence of the men and Briggs ended up at the receiving end himself before shutting them down.
Others also came to Briggs’ defence such as hip hop chart toppers The Hilltop Hoods, and indigenous Australian singer/songwriter Thelma Plum who shared the debatable black face photograph on her social media feeds.
Plum, who called the partygoers “disgusting little boys” additionally shared their picture on her Twitter and Instagram feed, encouraging human beings to call and shame them.
In an interview with Sky information, the host of the party stated the backlash became “political correctness gone incorrect” and the guys in the images were his fine associates who're “decent Australian blokes”.
but, it wouldn’t be the primary time an Australian party has held a comparable birthday party and created a storm of controversy.
In October 2013, a young Australian girl named Olivia, threw a 21st party with an African topic in which visitors were asked to dress up.
a number of the pictures which later surfaced confirmed some birthday celebration goers with black painted faces, attracting a storm of controversy from worldwide news shops.
Olivia defended the subject matter in a now delated Tumblr post pronouncing she made it an African subject as it became somewhere she had continually desired to move however had no longer supposed to cause offence.
“i'm one hundred% certain that events would be held that could be ‘Australian themed’ or American themed or maybe international locations of the sector, and in that example I don’t believe all of us could be indignant,” she wrote.
“human beings put on Oktoberfest costumes to events and no person cracks it that they may be no longer German? So what i am announcing is I do understand the humans who've painted themselves have angry humans, despite the fact that none of them intended that …. but how can human beings be annoyed that the general public of the human beings on the party had been celebrating any other nations subculture.”

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