{"id":14526,"date":"2011-08-30T22:27:28","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T22:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2011\/08\/30\/qantas-forced-to-issue-apology-after-blackface-stunt-on-twitter\/"},"modified":"2011-08-30T22:27:28","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T22:27:28","slug":"qantas-forced-to-issue-apology-after-blackface-stunt-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2011\/08\/30\/qantas-forced-to-issue-apology-after-blackface-stunt-on-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Qantas forced to issue apology after \u2018blackface\u2019 stunt on Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe competition winners in their costume of blacked up faces, arms and legs, and \u2018afro\u2019 wigs. This picture was later removed from Twitter. (R) Wallabies player Radike Samo said he was not offended by the unnamed pair\u2019s \u2018tribute\u2019 to his image.\n<\/div>\n

Australian airline Qantas has been forced to issue a grovelling apology after one of its attempts at social media advertising was branded racist.
\nThe airline had offered two tickets to the deciding game of the Bledisloe Cup between Australia and New Zealand national rugby teams in Brisbane on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

Set up earlier in the month, the Qantas Twitter giveaway promised two exclusive tickets to the game, at Suncorp Stadium, to the two fans who could best show their support for the Australian team.
\nThe tickets were awarded to two Wallabies fans who dressed up in \u2018afro\u2019 wigs, daubed black paint on their faces and wore the Australian rugby green-and-gold uniform.
\nThe pair said they were copying their \u2018favourite player\u2019, Fijian-born flanker Wallabies flanker Radike Samo, by blacking up their faces, arms and legs.<\/p>\n

Qantas awarded the tickets to the pair, but only if they promised to wear their costume to the game. The airline posted pictures of the two fans on Twitter after the game, saying they had \u2018lived up to their promise! Good work\u2019.
\nIn one picture the pair were seen smiling either side of Samo himself.<\/p>\n

However, after Twitter uses slammed the \u2018blacked up\u2019 pictures as \u2018appalling\u2019, the posting it was hastily withdrawn.
\nIt\u2019s not the first time Australia\u2019s dubious sense of humour regarding racism has caused controversy.
\nIn 2009, U.S. singer Harry Connick Jnr was outraged after an Australian TV show he was a guest on featured a comedy skit of singers with \u2018blacked up\u2019 faces and wigs mimicking the Jackson Five.<\/p>\n

Connick Jnr was acting as a judge on a viewer talent segment of Channel 9 show Hey Hey It\u2019s Saturday when the skit was performed.
\nGiving the performers – who had done a similar act on the show 20 years earlier – a mark of zero, a visibly shaken Connick Jnr said: \u2018If I knew that was going to be part of the show I definitely wouldn\u2019t have done it.\u2019
\nHe later received an on-air apology from the show\u2019s host, Daryl Somers.<\/p>\n

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The competition winners in their costume of blacked up faces, arms and legs, and \u2018afro\u2019 wigs. This picture was later removed from Twitter. (R) Wallabies player Radike Samo said he was not offended by the unnamed pair\u2019s \u2018tribute\u2019 to his image. Australian airline Qantas has been forced to issue a grovelling apology after one of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}