Did Patrick Kennedy Insult African-Americans By Going "Blackface"?

The New York Daily News reports:

"Wham-a-lot" Congressman Patrick Kennedy may be glad he has beat it to Minnesota's Mayo Clinic now that party pictures have surfaced showing him masquerading as Michael Jackson.

The Rx Rep. donned black-face, Jheri Curls and a white glove during a revel at the Virginia home of his dad, Sen. Edward Kennedy, in 1989, when Patrick was a 22-year-old Rhode Island state legislator.

I'll bet if Trent Lott did this it would be on the frontpage of the New York Times.Liberals donning blackface how insensitive.