Every Halloween, folks risk their image and good taste to pull off zany outfits. Unfortunately the racism line gets crossed when people go the blackface route, as evidenced by a handful of top fashion designers in Milan at a party over the weekend.
Halloween, the time of the year of ghosts and ghouls, horror movies, trick or treating and the blissfully ignorant, or idiots, that think its open season on blackface. The latest to partake in the racist act (no matter the intent) is actress Julianne Hough.
Last Friday (August 30), global doughnut and coffee company Dunkin’ Donuts found itself under heavy criticism after a model in blackface was featured in an advertising campaign. A human rights group deemed the ad racist and raised a stir, thus prompting the company to pull and apologize for the advertisement.
Brooklyn Assemblyman Dov Hikind hosted a party over the weekend in honor of a Jewish holiday known as Purim. However, what turned heads was Hikind posting photos on Facebook with the elected official donning blackface and an afro wig – later defending the outfit on social media and his blog.
There is a holiday figure in the Netherlands, and his name is “Zwarte Piet” (which translates to “Black Pete”). Legend has it in the Netherlands and Belgium, Piet is a companion (aka a slave) of St. Nicholas, and his existence is celebrated by an annual festival in early December. The only problem is, Piet is […]
You may not be familiar with Illamasqua Cosmetics but thanks to their new ad, they’re probably getting lots of Google inquiries. The British company released a holiday promotion featuring a model in blackface, a top hat, and a tuxedo.
Here we go again. For whatever reason, people seem to think that wearing blackface is acceptable, and regardless of how many stories we post proving otherwise, the instances continue to occur. In this latest episode, two members of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity at the University of Florida, in Gainesville, painted themselves black for a “rock stars […]
A high school in upstate New York had the bright idea of letting their white students don blackface and act out the 2009 altercation between Chris Brown and Rihanna. Needless to say, the public is not pleased with the news. Select students at Waverly High School plastered dark makeup on their face and body to […]
The Brooklyn Assistant District Attorney is apologizing for posting photos of himself in several compromising settings on Facebook., including wearing blackface. Rather than release a public statement—which one would commit to if they were truly remorseful—Justin Marrus only apologized to his boss, District Attorney Charles Hynes. “He admits it was childish and inappropriate,” said DA […]
The second-grader who made headlines for coming to school in blackface for a school assignment wants an apology. Sean King, a white student at Colorado’s Meridian Ranch Elementary, plastered dark makeup on his face to portray Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., after deeming his efforts offensive, the boy was asked to remove the face paint. […]
The parents of a second-grader at Meridian Ranch Elementary School in Peyton, Colo. should be stoned for sending their son to school in black face. The boy, Sean King, was of course told to remove the makeup, which he wore to portray Martin Luther King Jr. for a “Wax Museum Day” project.
Some people just write the checks to catch the fade all by themselves. The latest on the fade administration watch list is MTV’s reality series The Challenge: Battle Of The Exes contestant Emily Schromm, a former member of The Real World: Washington D.C. cast. Emily, clearly still struggling with being raised in an oppressive religious […]
