Student Campaign Targets Halloween Racism
A group of savvy students at Ohio University have launched a poster campaign highlighting the racist costumes that rear their ugly heads every October 31st, especially on college campuses.
Students Teaching About Racism in Society (STARS) is a student organization with about 10 members, who have been so overwhelmed by the response to these images that they’ve had to seek out the assistance of a lawyer in protecting their work. Kudos to these young people for such a powerful campaign!
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Up next, combating bigotry against elves……..every December 25th, Elves are made to feel inferior.
Also, turkeys are unfairly targeted during thanksgiving.
There is such thing as poor taste. But get a sense of humor.
What is wrong with these ppl, get off our a**es it’s like they r obsessed smh
I’m proud of these young people and their campaign! Halloween is no excuse for bigots to turn back the racial clock and dress in black face.
oh please, this ‘”ignorance” thing is going too far, it just shows how obsessed people are with labeling themselves, I’m polish and never in my life would I get offended if I saw someone wearing a traditional polish costume for Halloween. I’m just waiting until someone will start a campaign in order to ban words: yellow, black and brown from everyday use. Just because someone wears a geisha costume to a party doesn’t mean that person thinks that all japanese girls dress and behave like geishas.
“I’m polish and never in my life would I get offended if I saw someone wearing a traditional polish costume for Halloween.”
-________- Yeah, because people of Polish descent have a well-documented history of oppression and stereotyping.
@Amber(The Urban Socialite)
“-________- Yeah, because people of Polish descent have a well-documented history of oppression and stereotyping.”
Well, this sarcasm would be appropriate if the holocaust had never happened. But it did, and the Polish were targeted as a Jewish people. Just because they’re “white” doesn’t mean that they haven’t been oppressed or stereotyped.
But on that note, it’s not right no matter who the oppressed are. Period.
And please no one eh, dress up as a Canadian eh! So tired of people wearing toques, and hockey pads and carrying a beaver, eh, and talking like a ‘Canadian’ eh! Take off you hosers! This is my culture stop trying to make fun of us eh! Now excuse me, eh, I have to go scrape the ice off my igloo and go to the store using my dog sled eh! Oh and I am sorry if I have offended anyone eh. Us Canadians just wanna be nice ya know! Eh! ;)