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- Mar 22, 2004
Before we return to canadian ice dance, let me point out, we generally avoid mentioning Elvis Stojko in the ice dance thread, out of respect for Rod Black.
Against my better judgement, I'll use my imagination just once. Imagine Colleen was an ice dancer and her partner happened to be black. Imagine he also had to appear drunk, or covered in potatos. Would that not strike you as boring, predictable, and in very questionable taste?
...the summertime costumes kind of offended me...-- rich white woman, poor black male.
SkateFiguring, it's not the skating black roles that bothers people, but portraying negative stereotypes. Most of the time, Carol Lane has Asher Hill half naked, and Kharis Ralph in a classy dress. The message this sends to people is-- rich white woman, poor black male.
I enticed my black friends to watch figure skating with Asher, Maxim-Billy Fortin and of course World Champ Robin S. The Asher we watched was fully dressed in classy costumes but my friend and I agreed that he was dark skinned and would look better in lighter color shirts. I remember his head kept disappearing in the dark in a fancam video! Anyway, these days being half naked means you have a good body (or so you think) to show off. Many rich white women go around half naked on all kinds of occasions flaunting their plastic surgeries. Poor people used to be tanned, thin, and half naked labouring outdoors while being fair and fat was high status. Now it's the rich who bask in the sun and dress scantily to show off their slim bodies by way of workouts and shunning the cheap starchy foods.
This friend's wife and daughter are quite fair skinned and I had a good laugh when the wife told me her daughter goes for salon tanning in the winter! BTW, I'm involved in his music making and song writing and I will let you know when we, er, he has a hit!
She also had Paul Poirier half naked in the Flamenco in 2012.
Call me crazy, but while I have noted references to Asher being black, I don't think it's an obsession for Carol Lane as much as it is for some of the posters here.