Exclusive: Video shows Trudeau in blackface in 3rd instance of racist makeup

[luvtheGWN]

22. He was in a high school talent show

and was singing "Dayo, dayo". Would have been kind of stupid to sing it as a white guy.

Now a bit of Canadian history: When I was a young girl, my father belonged to the local Lions' Club. In those days, the Lions put on a Minstrel Show each year (this is in Ontario, BTW, in the 50's). The chorus was all in blackface, there were 5 gentlemen dressed in different plaid suits -- also in blackface, and they had speaking parts, and then there was the white "Interlocutor", or emcee, who exchanged lines with the 5 men.

As I recall (since I had also seen the scripts of some of these shows), the only person who was made to look stupid was the Interlocutor. The 5 guys had the best lines, the funniest lines, and always had a smart retort for the Interlocutor.

Did we think this was racist? Did the 5 guys come across and stupid? No way to either of those questions.

So......when you're performing for an audience, the terms of conduct are different. Shakespeare wrote "Othello" as a black man, and it wasn't until maybe over the last 10 years that actual black actors have had the leading role.

And remember this: Trudeau has welcomed people of all colours (including well over 25,000 Syrian refugees) to Canada and has said, many times, that "Diversity is our strength". Compare that to the horrendous racist epithets Dolt45 had spouted for several years.