Another example; "Police have been called in to investigate a race row at a village carnival after participants 'blacked-up' their faces for a float depicting the Jamaican bobsleigh team. The men had donned black face paint and built a float based around the 1993 comedy film, Cool Runnings, for the annual Bank Holiday carnival in the seaside resort of Aberaeron, West Wales, on Monday. But the decision by organisers to allow the float into the procession provoked fury from the local Labour Party in Ceredigion which described it as 'racism – pure and simple.'
Note of course it was Labour who complained. On a positive note, they won the prize for "most original costumes"
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