Halifax's poet laureate, Rebecca Thomas, is speaking out after a group of people attended a A Tribe Called Red concert at the Marquee Club in Halifax on Friday with imitation war paint on their faces. Halifax's poet laureate responds to concert goers wearing imitation war paint2:37"They're making fun of our culture. Blackface is incredibly racist and offensive, and yet redface still has this strange kind of OK-ness about it," she said. "But it's not OK."She pointed to a comment left on her Facebook page: "Would you wear blackface to a Beyonce concert? Why is it okay to wear redface to a Tribe Called Red concert?"

Source: CBC News August 23, 2016 15:13 UTC