I saw the fact that I never posted this, so I am posting it now. The White Blackface Performer appears to have been a NAZI-COP! HAHAHAHAHHAHA! SHOCKED! O_O!!!! No. No I am not shocked. The Nazi-Cops are OVERRUN WITH STRAIGHT-UP BIGOTS AND WHITE SUPREMACISTS! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! IT'S LIKE A ROACH INVASION! And they are BOLD! EVEN WITH THE LIGHT ON!
Here ARE the articles;
Blackface performer plans fundraiser for 6 indicted officers
By BRIAN WITTEJuly 22, 2015 11:16 PM
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A former Baltimore police officer said Wednesday that he plans to perform an Al Jolson routine in blackface to raise money for the six Baltimore officers who have been indicted in the death of Freddie Gray.
Bobby Berger, whose performances as Jolson created tension with the department in the 1980s, said Wednesday that 610 tickets have been sold in eight days at $45 each for the Nov. 1 fundraiser in Glen Burnie.
But the venue where Berger intended to hold the event, Michael's Eighth Avenue in Glen Burnie, posted a notice on its website that the fundraiser will not be hosted there.
"No contract was signed with Mr. Berger," the notice said. "Michael's does not condone blackface performances of any kind."
Berger said in an interview he doesn't believe there is anything racist about his routine.
"It's coincidence," Berger said about the fact that the entertainer he impersonates wore blackface. "There's no racial overtones to this show. There's nothing racial to the show."
Michael Davey, an attorney for the Baltimore City Fraternal Order of Police, said officers do not support the fundraiser. Gray was black. He died of injuries received in police custody. Davey said no money would be accepted from the fundraiser.
"They've been put in a pretty bad position without their knowledge," Davey said of the police officers.
Tessa Hill-Aston, president of the Baltimore branch of the NAACP, says the idea is "very distasteful."
"This is showing no sensitivity to the family of Freddie Gray," Hill-Aston said.
Gray's death prompted a wave of arson, looting and open confrontations with riot police in Baltimore in April.
Berger, who is 67, has performed the blackface signing act for decades. He was fired from the police force in the 1980s for performing the act in his spare time. He was reinstated to his job following an appeal, but later retired. His performance at a retirement dinner for a white Baltimore County officer in 1996 prompted a black officers group to protest outside the dinner.
Berger said in an interview Wednesday that he only intended to help the officers who were indicted in the Gray case.
"I want to get these people some money," Berger said. "I know they need it, and that's the long and short of it."
Fundraiser canceled for Baltimore officers charged in Freddie Gray’s death over ex-cop’s blackface plans
BY DEBORAH HASTINGS
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Published: Wednesday, July 22, 2015, 7:26 PM
Updated: Wednesday, July 22, 2015, 8:47 PM
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Bobby Berger, seen here performing in the 1980s, wants to don blackface once again for a fundraiser to benefit six cops charged with the murder of Freddie Gray.
A fundraiser planned for the six Baltimore police officers charged in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray has been canceled following criticism over its organizer's plans to entertain in blackface.
That organizer, former police officer Bobby Berger, 67, was canned by the department in the 1980s after complaints from the NAACP over his previous acts.
The ex-cop and other performers planned to participate in a Nov. 1 dinner show to raise money for the charged officers and their families. He said he's sold 600 tickets for the event, at $45 each.
Berger's planned blackface performance enraged the city's police union, a lawyer representing one of the charged officers, and the NAACP.
JAMIEA SPELLERFreddie Gray died in April from a severed spinal cord while in Baltimore police custody.
"My client will not participate. We will not accept a single, solitary dime from this sort of action," attorney Ivan Bates told The Baltimore Sun. He represents Sgt. Alicia White, one of the six officers charged in the death of Gray, who died from a severe spinal injury in April while in police custody.
"This is the type of racist behavior that we do not need and do not want," the lawyer said.
Tessa Hill-Aston, president of the city's NAACP chapter, blasted the fundraiser.
"I think it's disgusting," Hill-Aston told the paper. "Right now, with all the things that are going on in Baltimore and also with all the issues with the Confederate flag, this is just putting more salt in the wound."
An attorney for the Baltimore Fraternal Order of Police said the union had no part in the fundraiser.
"We're completely unaware of it. We don't endorse it. We do not support it," said Michael Davey.
Berger's performances featured him in blackface impersonating Al Jolson, the legendary Broadway star and actor whose acts often featured him singing in blackface.
Berger said there were no racist overtones in his performances and that African American audiences enjoyed his act. The fundraiser, he said, was designed to give financial support to the families of the charged officers.
"I've been through what they're going through and I know they need the help," Berger said. (Awwwwwwwwwww, isn't that so CONSIDERATE OF HIM!? Ya old Dirt-bag!)
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