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Explainer: why blackface (and brownface) offend
Last week, Polynesian activists accused Disney of promoting “brownface”after it advertised a full body children’s costume depicting the tattooed Pacific demi-god Maui.
Weeks earlier, a Perth mother who painted her son’s skin black so he could dress for a school parade as his “idol”, AFL footballer Nic Naitanui, was…