Comments on: Black your faces, chaps: it’s liberal, progressive Maltese television in 2015 https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/11/black-your-faces-chaps-its-liberal-progressive-maltese-television-in-2015/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Mon, 02 Nov 2015 16:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: H.P. Baxxter https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/11/black-your-faces-chaps-its-liberal-progressive-maltese-television-in-2015/#comment-3055864 Mon, 02 Nov 2015 16:34:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=71106#comment-3055864 L-aqwa li mhux iswed ta’ veru, right?

]]> By: Robert Bienfaisant https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/11/black-your-faces-chaps-its-liberal-progressive-maltese-television-in-2015/#comment-3055822 Mon, 02 Nov 2015 13:52:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=71106#comment-3055822 The John Philip Souza of oral marches will compete with the Maltese imitation of pseudo “karnagjon skur” performer.

Salvador Dali’ would have felt at home on this surreal island.

]]> By: astrolin https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/11/black-your-faces-chaps-its-liberal-progressive-maltese-television-in-2015/#comment-3055789 Sun, 01 Nov 2015 23:28:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=71106#comment-3055789 Get real, J Sammut – he was popular 100 years ago. Only entertainment nerds know who he is now.

]]> By: astrolin https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/11/black-your-faces-chaps-its-liberal-progressive-maltese-television-in-2015/#comment-3055788 Sun, 01 Nov 2015 23:27:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=71106#comment-3055788 Caused outrage in Australia five years ago when it appeared on TV there.

I provided a link.

It’s very disappointing. I feel sorry for the Africans who live and work in Malta, as it is deeply insulting.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/08/harry-connick-jr-slams-au_n_313613.html?ir=Australia

]]> By: John Doe https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/11/black-your-faces-chaps-its-liberal-progressive-maltese-television-in-2015/#comment-3055776 Sun, 01 Nov 2015 21:48:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=71106#comment-3055776 In reply to A. Charles.

To be precise, it was deemed to be politically incorrect inasmuch as black roles suddenly were expected to be filled by black people.

It was a dated and rubbish series (that was even aired in Malta if I remember correctly) even at its peak.

]]> By: Daphne Caruana Galizia https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/11/black-your-faces-chaps-its-liberal-progressive-maltese-television-in-2015/#comment-3055775 Sun, 01 Nov 2015 21:02:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=71106#comment-3055775 Why he did it is irrelevant. The fact that it was done is enough.

]]> By: pacikk https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/11/black-your-faces-chaps-its-liberal-progressive-maltese-television-in-2015/#comment-3055766 Sun, 01 Nov 2015 20:22:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=71106#comment-3055766 Ma thossokx mort lura ghall programmi ta’ zmien l-eqqel tal-Labour?

]]> By: A. Charles https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/11/black-your-faces-chaps-its-liberal-progressive-maltese-television-in-2015/#comment-3055757 Sun, 01 Nov 2015 20:01:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=71106#comment-3055757 In the 60s we had a BBC programme called the Black & White minstrel show. It was stopped because it was deemed to be an insult to the black community.

]]> By: Daphne Caruana Galizia https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/11/black-your-faces-chaps-its-liberal-progressive-maltese-television-in-2015/#comment-3055749 Sun, 01 Nov 2015 19:28:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=71106#comment-3055749 Of course I do: an American entertainer from the era when white Americans lynched what they called ‘niggers’, and hunted them down with packs of dogs. He died in 1950.

]]> By: Skype https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/11/black-your-faces-chaps-its-liberal-progressive-maltese-television-in-2015/#comment-3055737 Sun, 01 Nov 2015 18:44:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=71106#comment-3055737 Saw that. Low quality standard programmes. Imma basta jaghmlu l-flus. U la jaghmlu l-flus kollox jikkwalifika.

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