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• Enochrewt commented on We Are The World remade by impersonators on Japanese pop show (video)
  Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. - Charles Caleb Colton If they used blackface to create a character and make rash generalizations about a race, then yeah, you can shout racism. This is just gettting into costume to recreate something as closely as they could. Personally I feel that if the first thing you saw when you watched this video was racism, you might want to re-examine your own biases. Or at least just watch the Southpark episode where Chef gets offended by the new Southpark flag....
• 0xdeadbeef commented on We Are The World remade by impersonators on Japanese pop show (video)
  Good lord, don't tell the whiners about ganguro girls. Besides, the Michael Jackson is wearing white makeup, so it all evens out in the end....
• Dx11 commented on We Are The World remade by impersonators on Japanese pop show (video)
  Didn't you really mean to say, "Thank you Ted Neeley for this, our awsome..."?...
• shandrew commented on We Are The World remade by impersonators on Japanese pop show (video)
  Just the other day two old ladies on the train sitting in front of me started talking about how there are too many foreigners in Japan and what all these foreigners are doing here and how most of us are criminals Wow, around here we need to turn on Fox News to see stuff like that!...
• Matt Sanderson commented on We Are The World remade by impersonators on Japanese pop show (video)
  @46 Sorry, but that doesn't answer my question at all. Chappelle's decision to kill his show was just that, HIS decision. It was a complex and personal, but it has little to do with the point I'm making. How did YOU react to his skits? Did you think they were worse or better than what you see here? The more we remain tightassed about race, the worse off we'll all be. Lighten up (respectfully, of course) or else racism will never let up. Honestly, what good does it do? "Oh my! He just said white people are selfish assholes who...