Baby Blackface

Remember when you were a kiddo doing all kinds of stupid and just plain “wrong” shit when you were out sowing your wild oats and whatnot long before everyone held a mini-instant camera in their paw? Ah, the good ol’ days. Ain’t so good now anymore, is it? As a latch key rapscallion of sorts in my teen years back in the 70s there was no end to our freedom to fuck around and fuck up. The problem now in the age of wokeism for our Furry Little Lord Fauntleroy here is that he committed his most unacceptable transgression (as in it turns out he decided it would be just jim-dandy to outfit his pretty, pretty face in blackface THREE official times though he could not RECALL how many times at first!) right around the time digital cameras were just becoming popular in the late 90s-bummer man.

The Froggy Fresh Prince of Canucklandia is our first politician on this virginal checklist yet already the SECOND Canadian just 5 weeks into our honorable checklist-Oh Canada, indeed! Naturally this is the sort of scandal that always happens when you are modern presidential royalty like the Bushes by proxy-in this case Canadian Royalty as his old man is infamous Pierre Trudeau who was their Prime Minister as well back in the wild 70s and early 80s for 16 years (!) and is said to have even dated Barbara Streisand in the days before those nasty cameras were everywhere. It is alleged that Justin’s pere committed a hell of a lot more questionable acts than this that of course have still gone unpunished over time due to a “lack of physical evidence”.

Regardless, it is clear that our modern metrosexual mofo was clearly overdoing it with the blackface. It would have been so much better (and accurate) if he gotten a different tint and gone in “brownface” if he wanted folks to really believe he was an A-rab or whatnot at that swell and posh party at that private school. 

Further, he might have been given a pass if these types of hi-jinx were happening when he was still in grade school or even college for example. BUT the last of the three occurred in 2001 when he was 29 years old, ready to turn 30! To quote his peer, Sleepy Joe, "Come on, man!". Really? And to claim that he didn’t know how many times he had done so in TOTAL (“like hey man, for sure once or twice, definitely, maybe 3 or more-heck maybe a dozen -but how can I really be sure, can you dig, brothers and sisters?”) is really friggin’ hilarious considering the last events in question happened WAY after his teenage years.

Hell, I was smart enough at 18 to realize doing such a potentially explosive thing should probably be put to a halt after the first time. Like that time during my freshman year at college when at the last minute in the dorm, my roommate and I decided to dress up as the Third Reich for the dorm Halloween party. Look, it was easy and we were lazy-we already had the black trench coats, gloves and combat boots as honorable Joy Division fans/comrades.

All we really needed was some cardboard and markers (provided by our hall’s Resident Advisor-danke!) for our disposable swastika armbands-piece of cake! Sure, we got some nasty looks throughout the soiree but I don’t recall any real fallout at the time or even later-all in good fun, right Justin? Well, after some soul searching the next day, we both decided to put that type of costume to sleep for good-and we weren't even out of our teens yet.

Naturally, he plays the White Privilege card, I mean excuse, when he says privileged upbringing is "a massive blind spot" "-so very woke, indeed. Well, then isn’t it certainly ironic that he has been completely successful in using that privilege and power to remain in power? After all, we all know that is how it works in the blurred world of politics and celebrity.

Heck, even this other Canadian legend like Don Cherry couldn’t knock him off of his bully pulpit when the following came to attention in 2016, just three years before the blackface brewhaha. Hell, Justin and I have something in common here-we both don Native American First Nations style tats that are based on Robert Davidson's designs. The irony here w/the Old Injun's take is that both Baby Blackface and I (I lived in the Pacific Northwest for over a decade and learned the craft of this style of woodcarving) do this out of respect for the art and the culture so he just doesn't get it but at his age I get it-it's cultural appropriate these days still as it seemingly has been for decades as opposed to the beauty of cross-cultural pollination, not "cultural love and respect". 

You know sometimes you can't win for losing-can I get an amen?t least this silly ol' change.org petition only got less than 2K e-signatures-clearly showing this type of wokeism is a complete dead end if not a full on carnival ride to hell.

So in the end when it comes to those who's modern day job is not really to just report on the news anymore but weigh in on it, well, since they are transparent about being opinion pieces, its compelling that the take coming from the Canuck dude writing for the Chicago Tribune is all about understanding and forgiveness (certainly not typical AmeriKKKan traits), it is the voice of all things Canadian at the Toronto Sun who naturally is not forgiving Justin and calling for his complete political cancellation.

Alas, come last September, the golden faced boy won his third term as Prime Minister-the man is "just" in the winner's circle even when he is so wrong as his minions "poo-poo" this trio of incidents quietly as I guess schoolboy transgressions of just "boys" being "boys".

In the end, we get the same old lesson-that is while it is certainly clear you can't cancel this boy as he only gets stronger as these election results show-he did recently get a campaign event last August canceled so I guess that's a start, right? It that had happened to Trump, it would have been the onset of Armageddon.