White trick-or-treaters in blackface: C/D?

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/11/05/ice.costume/index.html

DHS employee shows up to Dept of Immigration & Customs Enforcement party in prison duds, dreadlocks, and "skin bronzer", gets praised for costume.

Hijinx ensue.

i still talk to candice sometimes, she sounds like shes doing alright

wau

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The employee who wore what some said was a racially insensitive Halloween costume to a party hosted by a top immigration official is being directed by the Homeland Security Department Secretary to take administrative leave.

Julie Myers, head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, called the man's costume "offensive."

The employee's leave will continue while a Department inquiry is conducted, according to Secretary Michael Chertoff.

The employee wore a striped prison outfit, dreadlocks and darkened skin make-up to the party hosted by Julie Myers, head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Myers was on a three-judge panel that originally praised the prisoner costume for "originality.

http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/2157/im003752nl9.jpg

I bet we won’t see any white kids doing black face Ben Wallace the way the Bulls are playing.

P.S. Trade for Kobe ASAP.

Not blackface, but still wtf.

This is amazing, though -- are they seriously trying to run with it, like it was some clever piece of performance art? I have no idea what rhetorical trick they're trying to accomplish with these quotes, but ... maybe they're intensely brilliant and have figured out that they can just confuse everyone into not caring:

- "This is a group of college students who now think it's trendy to be upset about their friends being killed."

- "The thing is, everybody's making a big stink about Virginia Tech. Virginia Tech was 32 deaths out of the 26,000 that happen in America every day."

- "That's the problem with college students," he continued. "They all live in an ivory tower of privilege. They don't understand, when it all boils down to it, it's someone wearing a costume."

The reversal of blaming the people who are upset for being the spoiled college students -- seriously, this dude should be working for Bush

that sickens me

Penn State represent

college student wears distasteful halloween costume, film at eleven

Sorry, I keep re-reading this:

"This is a group of college students who now think it's trendy to be upset about their friends being killed."

They should settle it with a football game.

this is what happens after freshman college students take one sociology class..

The PSU Daily Collegian article is just a bunch of quotes of PSU students denouncing those who made photos.

I want names, I want to find out if I recognize any townie last names.

considering how close I came to going as Chris Benoit this past halloween, I can sort of understand how these things happen

I've got this really great idea for the next time some team hosts Creighton...

http://brotherpeacemaker.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/whos-the-racist2.jpg

wau

Still trumped by this though:

If someone dressed up as darth vader and painted the darth vader face on their ass, it wouldn't be "assface darth vader," just darth vader

bump in anticipation of annual halloween fun

today i had to take 20 mins out of my night to explain to my fellow obama volunteer why it would be inappropriate and offensive for her to go to a halloween party as michelle obama in blackface

after we ended this conversation her next question was, "well, what about bronzer?"

here's something both outrageous and cheekily 90s. in 1995 i went as OJ for halloween ... w/ blackface ;[

;[

oh man, and i for my prop i taped plastic machete around a football. get it? HUH??

you're so crazy, burt_stanton

All of these blog entries have taught me that apparently, blackface is still a common practice. I mean, "Shirley Q. Liquor". Good grief.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, November 1, 2005 12:55 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

looking for kwanzaa songs on slsk & aside from georgia anne muldrow's dope "the kwanzaa song" its all SHIRLEY Q LIQUOR

"i'm dreamin' of a black kwanzaa" fuck you you cracker ass cracker

I went to grade school with a girl whose father was at the first Kwanzaa with Maulana Karenga. Every year he came and explained Kwanzaa to us at my school. My school was awesome and the seventies kind of ruled, the end.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/10/08/article-1218971-06BFBB9D000005DC-573_634x356.jpg

"We've spent so much time trying to not make black people look like buffoons" says Harry Connick Jr

That doesn't sound quite right to me.

Autumn Almanac reviews Hey Hey because as an insomniac, he can't sleep just yet

1st post - I don't know who the fuck Ben Wallace is/was, so I would have been extra O_O

Hey Hey It's Saturday

i know :(

then again, the US had shit with names like Suddenly Susan

wtf I am trying to think of names of tv shows and all I can think of is Suddenly Susan

this is like that time I was walking down the cereal aisle in the supermarket and thought THEYYYYYYYRE GREAT no matter what cereal mascot I looked at

Holy shit does Harry Chronic ever fucking mean it here!

RT @azizansari Watch Parks & Rec tonight at 830! Bones is doing its special "blackface episode," watch if that's your thing. #ParksandRec

channel hopping last night, saw katy brand on itv2 in blackface doing a rihanna impression. she was shit.

Best TV show name of all time, no joking: SABADO GIGANTE. I mean, it just lays it all on the line, right there.

This thread is about white trick-or-treaters going in blackface to dress like someone Black, right? What does ILX feel about someone dressing up in blackface, tho, to dress up like Al Jolson?

mordyfied

what if the white guy dressed up as a black guy dressing up like al jolson dressing up like a black guy?

I think this Halloween I'm going to do blackface over whiteface over blackface, and when people ask me what the hell I am, I will say "internet irony"

"What's black and white and re(a)d all over?"

What does ILX feel about someone dressing up in blackface, tho, to dress up like Al Jolson?

Its interesting you ask that question because the media everywhere are in a stink about the stupid skit here in aus with the blackface jacksons thing.

And yet we have a jewish performer who's been doing an Al Jolson blackface routine in the samecountry for years to much approval and good audiences and never has he had any protests.

What give? I dont know.

I think this Halloween I'm going to do blackface over whiteface over blackface, and when people ask me what the hell I am, I will say "internet irony"

I rofld

And yet we have a jewish performer who's been doing an Al Jolson blackface routine in the samecountry for years to much approval and good audiences and never has he had any protests.

Al Jolson was jewish.