Name: Justin Trudeau says he does not remember how many times he wore blackface
Uploaded: 2019-10-19T20:05:41.000Z
Duration: 2 min 7 s
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Darkening your face, regardless of the context or the circumstances,

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is always unacceptable because of the racist history of blackface.

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I should have understood that then and I never should have done it.

I recognise that it is something absolutely unacceptable to do

and I appreciate calling it makeup but it was blackface.

It is something that people who live with the kind of discrimination

that far too many people do because of the colour of their skin,

or their history, or their origins, or their language, or their religion

face on a regular basis and I didn't see that from

And for that I am deeply sorry and I apologise.

– You told us last night on the plane of all of the different incidences

Have you since been made aware or remembered of other incidences,

– I am wary of being definitive about this because the recent pictures

And I think the question is, how can you not remember that?

The fact is I didn't understand how hurtful this is to people

who live with discrimination every single day.

This has been, personally, a moment where

I've had to reflect on the fact that wanting to do good

and wanting to do better simply isn't good enough

and you need to take responsibility for mistakes that hurt people

who thought I was an ally, who hopefully, many of them

still consider me an ally, even though this was a terrible mistake.

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Justin Trudeau says he does not remember how many times he wore blackface

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