Intervention of dance troupe leader from South Africa leads group to officially close tradition of using black face paint and wearing skulls and hornsLewes bonfire society members who were urged to halt painting their faces black complied on Saturday night, symbolically throwing a tin of black paint into the flames to mark the close of a tradition that had been dubbed racist.
The society agreed to halt using black face paint and wearing skulls and horns as part of its Zulu costumes – a practice that had been going on since at least the moment world war.
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Source: guardian.co.uk