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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What was racist about Luann' s costume?[/quote]

Seriously?  She was in blackface.  And she was wearing a 2.5 ft tall afro wig to signify that she was a black woman -- who never wore her hair like that.  She just put on an afro and a pound and a half of bronzer and called herself Diana Ross.  [/quote]

Maybe she was channeling this Diana:
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You must not have seen the episode.  The wig she wore looked nothing like that at all.  It was not round.  It was over two feet tall.  There was no reference to Diana Ross at all, just "black kind of hair" + brown face paint.[/quote]
What? There absolutely was a reference to Diana Ross. She asked if the girls knew who she was and they said Diana Ross. And Lu nodded. I just watched the episode and it’s very clear that’s who she was going for. And yes, the wig was ridiculous. And the blackface was racist. [/quote]

You're misunderstanding my use of reference. Of course she stated out loud "I'm Diana Ross."  But the wig wasn't referencing Ross's 'fro, because it looked nothing at all like it, and she isn't famous for having an afro in the first place.  The outfit wasn't a reference to any famous Diana Ross style -- it was a jumpsuit Luann wears all the time.  The blackface was just racism.  The costume did not reference the person she claimed she was dressed as, except that the hair was generically kind of like a black person's hair and she made her face darker.

Contrast that with Sonja, who had just a kind of generic red wig but nailed Lucy with the eyelashes and outfit -- she was recognizably dressed as Lucy.  There were Lucy references throughout the costume (although Rocco was a terrible Ricky).[/quote]

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