Indigenous mum weighs into blackface debate

AN INDIGENOUS mum from Queensland has weighed in to the ‘Book Week’ blackface controversy with an unexpected photo that’s fast gone viral.

AN indigenous mother from Cairns has weighed into the blackface debate, showing support for the Perth mum who started the uproar.

Describing herself as a “proud Aboriginal Australian black woman”, Breeze Bee (whose real name is Bec) took to Facebook to defend the ‘Book Week’ boy in the centre of a furious backlash over blackface last week.

“The little boy in the centre of last weeks book week did not suffer from racism or discrimination, he idolised a man who has achieved great successes even during pain,” she writes.

“Unfortunately now this little boy who has been shown by the dark skinned community that his admiration for a black man is unacceptable and has learnt racism!”

Breeze Bee has defended the mother and son at the centre of a furious blackface debate last week.

She goes on to suggest the backlash against the boy’s mother for his costume was an overreaction, saying we should instead “inform and educate politely”.

She then compared it to the movie ‘White Chicks’, which centers on two black men dressing up as white women, and said “We need to stop the double standards”.

She expressed support for the mother, and even included a photo of her daughter painted in white from three years prior, to represent a cartoon character.

The post has been shared more than 8000 times to date, with the majority of comments expressing support for the woman’s words.