"""blackface""" is a pseudo crime. Its almost only yankies that consider the act of painting your skin some sort of evil. Lots of cultures do that all the time around the world. Stop this bullshit. You don't need """gotcha""" moments like this to show a politician to be full of shit. And don't mention to me the double standards, I know them. But if you don't want benign things (like painting one's skin a dark colour) to become taboo/crimes then stop treating them like ones. You're playing right into their hands.