Laredo students' blackface, Hitler costumes prompt social media outrage
An overwhelming outcry broke out on social media this week over several Laredo high school students' choice of costumes for senior week as photos circulated online.
Social media posts show several United High School seniors dressed as the Jackson 5, American rapper Kodak Black and hip-hop artist Offset. But it was the fact that these students chose to paint their faces black as part of their senior week costumes that caused the uproar.
The photos of students posing in blackface generated a stream of comments, deeming the costumes inappropriate and racist. As a United High School alumna, Liliana Lozano said she was disappointed to see high school seniors using blackface in their costumes this year.
"I wasn't the only one to realize this act of racism, however 'harmless' the intentions may have been," Lozano told LMT {Laredo Morning Times}.
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