The historical links to minstrel shows are valid grounds for the offensiveness. But sometimes you have to wonder about the validity of the outrage when a case

The historical links to minstrel shows are valid grounds for the offensiveness. But sometimes you have to wonder about the validity of the outrage when a case has no links to this whatsoever, and where it is done out of pure admiration and celebration of a person of color. A few years ago in Australia, a young kid and his mother were nationally shamed when the kid went to a school dress-up day as his favourite footballer, who is a dark-skinned man of Fijian descent [1]. He wore dark skin paint and a dreadlock wig, obviously because he idolises this footballer and wanted to look as much like him as possible. The footballer then had to comment on the matter, and admitted that he himself had endorsed people dressing up this way in the past, and that even he had to be educated that it was not a cool thing to do. [1] https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/its-a-shame-nic-naitanui-responds-to-blackface-outrage-20160826-gr1jlf.html https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/its-a-shame-nic-...