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I attended junior high in the mid 70's, played football. One afternoon, after practice, I went upstairs into the coaches' office above the locker room. I noticed a jar of eye-black sitting on the desk. Eye-black was not used extensively by junior high players back then, so I was probably mesmerized by it. Head coach notices and suddenly comes up with the idea for me to don blackface. I have curly hair, and my hairstyle could have been termed as an afro (being the 70's and all). I remember being reluctant to do so but Coach insisted. After applied, head and asst coaches died laughing; head coach then wanted me to visit a teacher with him. I didn't want to do this but, I was 13 and again, Coach insisted. Since it was after school and not many students were around, I agreed. Coach shows me to teacher, she has tears from laughing so much. Glad there weren't cell phones back then.
Oh, both coach and teacher were black.
BTW, I'm not implying donning blackface is ok...