Racist For Wearing A Brooch?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5204907/Princess-Michael-Kent-wears-racist-Blackamoor-brooch.html

/// Blackamoor is genre of art or jewellery showing men and women with black skin ///

So? There really are some men and women who happen to have a black skin.

Surely the lives of this young couple are not going to be blighted with this sort of ridiculousness?

[emmie]

some people just like to have a pop at the Royal Family, ridiculous load of nonsense of course.

[Jackdaw33]

Good job it wasn't one of those golliwog badges you used to get with labels from Robertson's jam. My blazer used to be covered with them. I don't think that made me racist.

[Jahulaye]

The upper crust and their advisers aren’t up to date on what is and isn’t pc unfortunately.

[jno]

some men and women who happen to have a black skin

like the mother of next May's bride. And indeed the bride herself, who has dark skin. I don't expect she'll be getting too many invitations from them after the wedding.

[albaqwerty]

I've been convinced for quite a while that some folk actively seek to find something to be offended about and post it via social media.

It's a pretty brooch.

[Tilly2]

That woman has no taste. That brooch looks cheap and tacky.

[albaqwerty]

spath, don't forget that calling snow 'white' is racist too
and as for soot - oh, don't get me started.

Tilly, Princess Pushy has been out of the limelight for a while - wouldn't be surprised if she herself had started the social media outrage :-D

[Jahulaye]

“It's a pretty brooch.”

You say that as it isn’t offensive to you.

What would you say if you were Jewish and she was wearing a swastika and a user said it was a pretty shaped broach?

[Jackdaw33]

Cheap and tacky? According to the article they can cost upwards of £10k. Surely, if she refused to have any ornaments which depicted black people, THAT could be construed as racist.

[anotheoldgit]

spathiphyllum

To be fair there are some black swans.

[albaqwerty]

As it happens, she wasn't wearing a swastika shaped brooch, well, as far as I can see anyway.

What next?
Abolishing the Mona Lisa cos she has a lop-sided smile?
Art is as Art does.

[Tilly2]

I don't care if it cost £20 000. It's hideous.

[Jahulaye]

Did you understand my point as my question appears to have gone unanswered...

[Jackdaw33]

I remember that shortly after she married Prince Michael the Queen remarked to other members of the royal family, "She's far too grand for the likes of us!"

[dannyk13]

jno,
//I don't expect she'll be getting too many invitations from them after the wedding.//
Who is them?

[albaqwerty]

beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Sad world if we all liked the same things.