Blackface scandal prompts others to confront their memories
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They either didn’t return messages or didn’t want to speak about the experience.But some have posted about it on social media.Canadian-born comedian Mark Rowswell, who works mostly in China under the stage name “Dashan,” posted on Twitter that he and three of his friends in Ottawa, Canada, painted their faces black and dressed as The Four Tops in high school.Rowswell said he remembered a teacher quietly asking his drama teacher if it was racist and the drama teacher emphatically disagreeing.At the time, Rowswell said he thought the question was bizarre too.
As said here by JEFFREY COLLINS and JENNIFER McDERMOTT