I’m not sure what the big deal here is. A Utah school is up in arms because a pair of students showed up in a blackface and KKK Halloween costumes. Soon-to-be ex-Virginia Governor Ralph Northam did the exact same thing and nobody cared. Maybe the issue is that the students in question are nor democrats. For some reason things are only racist when non-democrats do them.
Sure, it’s been over a month since Halloween but sometimes outrage needs to simmer before it erupts. The Desert News reports:
Cache County School District Superintendent Steve Norton has pledged to study and then take “concrete steps” after two Sky View High School students donned offensive Halloween costumes for school…
During an emotional meeting Thursday evening, Norton said he plans to conduct a retreat “to talk about what we heard tonight and reflect on where we need to go as a district and what plans we have to address the concerns that were raised tonight.”
Parents, students and community members addressed the board about the recent events as well as about what their children of color and diverse sexual identities experience in Cache School District schools.
And here’s what took a month to get people worked up:
The monthlong controversy began to simmer in late October when two students at Sky View High School in Smithfield wore offensive costumes to school: one donned a KKK-like robe and hood, while the other came to class in blackface makeup.
The student in the KKK costume “was stopped upon entering the school and taken to the office, where he removed the costume and was educated as to why such a costume would be highly offensive to members of the school community,” Norton said.
The other student, who is white, dressed as a basketball player and wore blackface and a bald cap. He “was referred to the office where administrators worked with the student and his parents discussing why this was offensive to others,” Norton said.
It sounds like they were trying to recreate Ralph Northam’s college yearbook picture. It’s actually a pretty clever Halloween costume if you can ignore the racism.
Speaking during Thursday’s meeting, Justice Smith, the parent of three biracial school-age children who have shared experiences of hearing the N-word while they have ridden in the district’s school buses, said for students to come to school dressed as a Klansman or in blackface was “shocking” and “disheartening for us because of the fact they feel they can do that.”
Yeah, how dare those student think they can get away with doing something a democrat governor got away with?
Mario Mathis, representing Black Lives Matter Utah, said regardless of one’s race, background or religion, community members should be distressed that two students thought it was OK to wear offensive costumes to school.
“Think about it, a young man wore a Klan suit to a school. That is a serious problem. You should be disappointed. This is a reflection of the parenting that goes on around here,” said Mathis.
You know what’s weird? I don’t remember Black Lives Matter protesting Ralph Northam over his blackface/KKK robe picture. They’ll burn down an entire city when when cops shoot an armed black criminal but had nothing to say about the governor of a state being a super-racist.
I’ve said this before but I think everyone should register as a democrat in case you’re ever accused of racism because you’ll get a free pass. And that’s the real crime committed by these 2 students: failure to be democrats.
Ralph Northam dressed as either a KKK guy or a black guy and nobody cared. Joe Biden has dropped N-bombs and eulogized an honest-to-goodness KKK Exalted Cyclops and it’s like it never happened. Democrats owned slaves, fought a war to preserve slavery, formed the KKK, and segregated the South but somehow it’s Republicans who are the real racists.
