Dancer who raised issue says he is pleased to see group responding to his concerns about black face paint and Zulu costumes The Lewes Bonfire Society ended the long tradition of painting their faces black on Saturday night, and symbolically threw a tin of black paint into the flames to denote the end of a practice that had been dubbed racist. Apart from the black paint, the society also agreed to stop wearing skulls and horns as part of its Zulu costumes, with most using different colour paint i...
Dancer who raised issue says he is pleased to see group responding to his concerns about black face paint and Zulu costumes The Lewes Bonfire Society ended the long tradition of painting their faces black on Saturday night, and symbolically threw a tin of black paint into the flames to denote the end of a practice that had been dubbed racist. Apart from the black paint, the society also agreed to stop wearing skulls and horns as part of its Zulu costumes, with most using different colour paint i...
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