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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBecause Mere Blackface Wasn't Offensive Enough For These Partiers
Today's REALLY? Halloween costume comes to us from a tipster by way of Quincy, MA where some brainiacs decided to slap on some blackface and dress up as George Zimmerman shooting a bloody Trayvon Martin.
The pictures are just starting to circulate online, and the girl who posted the photo has already deactivated her Facebook account and deleted her Instagram photos. The men in the photograph, on the other hand, are still active on social media. Until this morning, the man dressed as George Zimmerman had set it as his profile photo; he changed it and locked his photos sometime overnight.
None of the three pictured have made a public comment about the photo yet.
It's not clear if the woman's costume was intended to be part of the joke; but her costume is sold online as "Robyn da Hood".
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Because Mere Blackface Wasn't Offensive Enough For These Partiers (Original Post)
kpete
Oct 2013
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TBF
(32,084 posts)1. I swear this country is losing it. nt
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)2. Those afflicted with abject stupidity walk among us
Not a comforting thought
ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)3. Charming...
Ohio Joe
(21,761 posts)4. Being a racist POS is now more open then I ever remember
They seem to be pretty proud of it... Fucked up.
valerief
(53,235 posts)6. Yep, it's just like the 50s and 60s again, when racism was the norm in the Northeast, as I recall.
I can't speak for other parts of the country then.
drm604
(16,230 posts)5. And none of them had a clue that this might be in horribly bad taste,
or that it might not be too bright to take a picture of it, or that it might be incredibly stupid and self-destructive to put it onto the internet?
Racist, insensitive, AND stupid.
valerief
(53,235 posts)7. Fox News viewers, no doubt. nt
RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)8. Their parents should be so proud.
Idiots.
UtahLib
(3,179 posts)9. Nasty hate filled little maggots.
I can only hope they reap what they sow.