२५ ऑगस्ट, २०२६

Target apologizes for a costume that — accidentally? — looks like blackface.

You decide. It's the "Kids’ Glows under Blacklight Circus Clown Halloween Costume Bodysuit":

I'll do a poll:

More background:

४८ टिप्पण्या:

Iman म्हणाले...

“Oh… Teh Hugh Manatee!”

Andre म्हणाले...

Sho-nuff!

RideSpaceMountain म्हणाले...

Really Target? Really? You got rid of the little trannies-in-training tuckable pampers and next thing you know you've got kid's smiling-sambo costumes for halloween. Suburban moms demand answers! Bring back tuckable pampers forthwith!

Oso Negro म्हणाले...

Unless my eyes deceive me, that’s a wee negro lad in that costume. What is he supposed to do to avoid “blackface”?

n.n म्हणाले...

I thought it was a cockroach. Then the light was turned on and it scurried into a back... black hole... whore h/t NAACP. Abort, sequester, and progress no more.

Jamie म्हणाले...

Oso Negro is right - the child is Black. The issue is the use of that particular model, not the (super creepy) costume. Who picked the model, and why?

tim maguire म्हणाले...

Apart from the fact that I reject absolutely that there is anything wrong with blackface, our society has made itself stupid over fake cries of racism. This reminds me of the photo a few years ago of miners grimy after a day in the mines that hung on a wall in a bar. Some dirtbag critical studies major saw it and cried

Known Unknown म्हणाले...

Would putting this costume on a non-black child have the same effect? Probably not, but it is a weird-ass costume nonetheless.

tim maguire म्हणाले...

Nerts. They cried "Racism!"

https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/2019/01/28/downtown-phoenix-photo-men-soot-blackface/2683881002/

Jamie म्हणाले...

(In this context, I decided to capitalize Black, because surely the casting people at Target would.)

Jamie म्हणाले...

I haven't heard "nerts" in probably forty or more years!

Peachy+2 म्हणाले...

The kid in the ad is black.

Is this offensive to the white left?

Peachy+2 म्हणाले...

Oso - you beat me to it.

The white left are insane.

Peachy+2 म्हणाले...

... the white left are the real racists.

n.n म्हणाले...
ही टिप्पणी लेखकाना हलविली आहे.
Hugh म्हणाले...

I don’t think that this was done intentionally, but this is a weird costume. I expect that they used a black model to meet DEI goals, and it would be interesting to see the picture and the reaction if the model were white (or Asian for that matter). Option #4 is too strongly worded for me, but Target and its supplier did screw up, in a way that could/should have been foreseen. But when you have tens of thousands of products mistakes are made.

n.n म्हणाले...

Duh! Doh! DEI: color judgments, class bigotry, is a double-edged scalpel.

tim maguire म्हणाले...

**Jamie said...I haven't heard "nerts" in probably forty or more years!**

Did your ear hear Major Burns as you read it? (Mine did as I typed it.)

Peachy+2 म्हणाले...

why is a weird costume? It's a clown costume... Blending traditional orange and black colors of Halloween.

n.n म्हणाले...

A darker shade of brown cannot help their black face. #NoJudgment #NoLabels

Onyx, now that's black... uh, black-black. h/t Whoopi And not African, sometimes, often.

n.n म्हणाले...

* nerts *

The N-word. Also, nerds, and sometimes geeks... the g-word.

Peachy+2 म्हणाले...

I mentioned before the Police and Fire-fighter Halloween costumes available at a local Costco. They are not flying off the rack. I suspect that even if a kid wanted to dress up like daddy - the parents understand the danger for the child.
Crazy leftists would probably HARM the child.

bagoh20 म्हणाले...

I don't have enough experience with blackface to comment.

n.n म्हणाले...

Target is on target - no abortive ideation implied - for first, a top surgery, a lobotomy, then a bottom surgery, in the wallet.

bagoh20 म्हणाले...

"Who picked the model, and why?"

Someone was trying to be inclusive. That'll teach 'em.

n.n म्हणाले...

Mmm... candy corn. Get in my belly! h/t Fat Bastard

tommyesq म्हणाले...

Cheshire cat?

Wince म्हणाले...

What about that dude scaring women with the Chucky mask?

Wilbur म्हणाले...

"Hyde and EEK! Boutique collection" made me chuckle, so there's that.

As long as there are people who profit from finding and calling out what they term to be racist, this nonsense will go on. If Target had publicly said it's only racist in your fevered mind, they probably would sell a lot of them.

hombre म्हणाले...

Important race baiting from CNN. BFD!

n.n म्हणाले...

I'm thinking of women in teenie, weenie, candy corn bikinis 👙. Sweet.

Wilbur म्हणाले...

Hugh said...
I don’t think that this was done intentionally, but this is a weird Target and its supplier did screw up, in a way that could/should have been foreseen. But when you have tens of thousands of products mistakes are made.

Original Mike म्हणाले...

The kid is black. This is just people wanting to be offended. What's new?

Wilbur म्हणाले...

Sorry, meant to add that they should have foreseen this and avoided it as you say. Mistakes happen. Sometimes heads roll.

Joe Bar म्हणाले...

If the kid was white, no one would have noticed.

Earnest Prole म्हणाले...

The miniature plug hat and exaggerated teeth and lips were a staple of minstrelsy. The costume was likely created for an Asian audience. You can get a sense of the lingering Asian fascination with blackface by googling ‘Darkie toothpaste’ and following its transformation to ‘Darlie toothpaste.’

Kevin म्हणाले...
ही टिप्पणी लेखकाना हलविली आहे.
Kevin म्हणाले...

Unless my eyes deceive me, that’s a wee negro lad in that costume.

We're now apologizing for things people **thought** they saw.

Fred Drinkwater म्हणाले...

I think Prole has the answer.

Iman म्हणाले...

Had to be made in China.

RideSpaceMountain म्हणाले...

"If the kid was white, no one would have noticed."

Nope. They would've complained a black child model wasn't chosen, and then they would complain about the correction.

Jupiter म्हणाले...

I think you've all got it wrong. It says that the costume includes a "mesh face mask". If you look closely at the enlarged image, you can see that the huge orange lips are on a mesh or veil, that covers the face, and darkens it. The kid **could** be black, but I doubt it. So it really is a white person with an artificially darkened face, and Target thought it best to just let Negroes be Negroes. Apologize, move on. Negroes gonna Negro, right?

Jupiter म्हणाले...

Send a check to Ben Crump, and maybe one to Al Sharpton too. They's Black Leaders! They lead Blacks.

Jupiter म्हणाले...

That's RAY-CISSS!

chuck म्हणाले...

If that came to the door, my first take would be "WTF".

Known Unknown म्हणाले...

Did anyone ask the kid what he thought of it?

Lazarus म्हणाले...

In the upper picture it's hard to see the face. It looks like some sort of dinosaur face. In the picture from The Griot, the face is clearly that of a black child. Maybe they don't want kids to clown around on Halloween, but this sounds like much ado about nothing.

RideSpaceMountain म्हणाले...

"Mom and dad say the check cleared. They said I like it just fine."

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