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Old 11-12-2014, 11:15 PM   #301
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Harry Connick Jr was a guest judge on red faces and chose to be offended by an act that was a send up of the Jackson 5, white men in black make up.
If he didn't his career would have been over in the USA.

If you cop the race card in the USA its game over with sponsors etc.
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Old 12-12-2014, 01:44 AM   #302
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Harry wrecked any chance of hey hey coming back.
I should send him a thankyou note...
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Old 12-12-2014, 08:20 AM   #303
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Harry Connick Jr was a guest judge on red faces and chose to be offended by an act that was a send up of the Jackson 5, white men in black make up.
They were not all white if I remember correctly...
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Old 14-12-2014, 12:28 AM   #304
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If he didn't his career would have been over in the USA.

If you cop the race card in the USA its game over with sponsors etc.
Excellent point, it was a rehash of the same guys doing the same thing 20 years earlier. I always thought Connick got the context wrong.
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Seemed perfectly acceptable in the USA when the Wayans brothers went white face in the movie "White chicks"?

Everything is either "racist", "unfair" or "homophobic" these days.
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