smh

Halloween has just passed and yet the ridicules costumes are still making their way to the media. Blackface has consistently made its way into the halloween costumes of racist ignorant white people. But of course native americans, mexicans, and other radicalized costumes have also always made its way into the Halloween scene.  This year however, Trayvon Martin and Zimmerman seem to make its way to be the most popular costume of racist bigots this year. I have also seen pictures of suicide bombers--depicted as arab of course, and today my friend showed me a picture of someone who dressed up as one of the Boston marathon bombing victims. I also saw a news clip where a young 7 year old boy dressed as a KKK member and went trick or treating. His mothers only warning is, "people might say things, if you're ready for that". I also sent that news clip to the class, where fox news covers a story on a universities warning about these costume choices. Yet it seems that the news casters were insinuating that these choices are okay... because of freedom of speech. Your boss might just not like it in the future.... unless its Fox. One cannot say that overt racism does not exist anymore. Because if someone dressing up in blackface, a smile, a bloodied shirt, and a bag of skittles for the halloween costume as an innocent murder victim who is still a child laughing along side their friend who is the murderer--is not overt racism... then I don't know what the heck is. This was a terrifying Halloween.