Of course it does require you to actually click on the link and then read it.

What?! Seriously? Please, are you deliberately trying to be obtuse?

Either way I'll play along, so can you tell me when the act of dressing up as a Roman, or a Norman, or even the Pope was a statement of superiority over another race?

Learn your history, or you'll forever remain an ignorant fool

Nice to see that the whole squad have been put on a equality & diversity course *more left wing bollocks*
The guys a fool, but racist nope I doubt it !!

Advise you would do well to follow it seems.

The Romans took Britons as slaves, the Normans oppressed the crap out of us and the Catholics, well I'm not even going there.

My examples are designed to demonstrate that one could extend these kind of resentments on endlessly into the future. Where will it get us all?

Allowing yourself to be offended by others who deliberately or inadvertently offend puts you in a position of weakness. You have allowed someone to effect you negatively. When you can say, I don't give a f***, then you are the strong one.
If you go out of your way to insult someone's "race" then you are a bellend. Everyone with a brain should know that. But they lose their power when you laugh in their face.

But that argument doesn't stand. It misses the whole point entirely.

It is not the representation of historic figures that offends or even a history of slavery. The blackface does not represent either. It was/is a symbol of oppression and degradation of a race.

It's a visual representation that the black man was/is inferior to the white man in every way and could not be accepted or tolerated in society as anything approaching an equal. And that the only acceptable representation of such was a white man degrading himself. That is what blackface means - and it is the historical understand that I ask you to understand, not the history of the USA.

Would you say to a jew, that they are weak to find the swastika offensive? And that they should laugh at it? Maybe you think the families of the 96 families at Hillsborough should have just laughed at anyone who calls them thieving Scouse b******s?

Personally I don't.

I don't think racism, no matter how casual should ever go unchallenged.