Thursday 6 October 2011

jamaican bobsled team fancy dress

Named 'Fasnact', each week for a month a different village stages a parade in its streets with fancy dress as monsters, celebrities and alike. Brass bands with... They then have some tents which the bands continue to play at into the night, covering big hits but playing them slightly out of time to give a Carnival feeling – basically they sound like they're drunk haha. What a night, I had the day off today and made the most of last night. Good times. Jamaica's bobsled team.

the Jamaican bobsled team,
the Jamaican bobsled team,

the Jamaican Bobsled Team
the Jamaican Bobsled Team

jamaican bobsleigh team,
jamaican bobsleigh team,

Jamaican bobsleigh team
Jamaican bobsleigh team

Jamaican Bobsleigh teams,
Jamaican Bobsleigh teams,

Jamaican Bobsled team robbed
Jamaican Bobsled team robbed

Black and white friends going to a UofT fancy dress party as the Jamacian bobsleigh team and coach...not racist, actually pretty original. Beyonce doing blackface for a photoshoot? I don't know... Not for me to say really. Whether it... An absolute statement like that deserves dissent... I still don't think it's appropriate for a white person to wear blackface, even if it's as harmless as someone dressing up as a Jamaican bobsledder. It's not just America with the racist history.
Berlin Blackface Makes You Cringe | Toronto Mike's Blog

The fourth group's attire was an idea apparently formulated by a black member of the rugby union team, in reference to the Jamaican bobsled team who participated in the 1988 Winter Olympic Games. Following the 1993 film...
jamaican bobsled team fancy dress

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