You know that Peanuts Halloween cartoon where Linus waits up all night for the Great Pumpkin and no one believes him? The Great Pumpkin is a Halloween without white people dressing up as racists. Lets deliver that Pumpkin to Linus this year White People.....Lets be better than I believe we can be and prove me wrong! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- And while you may have convinced yourself that as long as your intentions are good then it’s okay, the reality is that impact outweighs intentions. Your friends may know you mean no harm, maybe you even have a Black, Asian, NDN friend that tells you that they’re not offended. And maybe for that one person (who knows you, cares about you, and wants to think the best of you) that’s even true. But they aren’t the only people who will see your “not really/ironically” racist costume. Whether your pics wind up going viral on Twitter, or some stranger at the event sees your fake feather headdress and has that “Oh…this stranger is maybe a little or a lot racist” stomach drop that makes them avoid you all night, your costume will have hurt someone. And for what? What extra value does it bring to your life to play with that racist history? Is your fun worth someone else’s pain?
Posted on: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 02:05:28 +0000
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