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[TheSpoiler]

Every year, baby!

Heath Morrow’s wife, Shannon Morrow posted the offensive photo to her Facebook wall in which she poses next to her husband with an elaborately padded posterior and leopard print spike heels intended to make her look like reality TV star Kim Kardashian.

“Haha some people thought Heath was really a black man,” she commented

More at the link.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/ala...s-blackface-kanye-west-costume-for-halloween/

Paint it black if old.

For anyone with any questions about why people get upset about blackface...please watch the ending montage of the Spike Lee movie Bamboozled, which shows how early tv and movies depicted blacks.
*Warning for anyone who hasn't seen it...it's pretty heart breaking stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C45g3YP7JOk

 

[woolley]

Post racist America.

 

[Seesaw15]

The fake booty is the bigger crime.

 

[enoki]

I mean, he did a pretty good job at imitating another person... regardless of skin color. It's a bad costume, to be sure.

I can't see the difference, honestly, between this or if he had chose to dress up as macho man Randy Savage. Suddenly the costume isn't offensive because he isn't dressing up as someone from another race?

 

[jerry1594]

Look like dollar store imitations

 

[TheOohChild]

the resemblance is uncanny

 

[Veritigo_X]

Guess it's that time of year.

Costume looks like shit too. If you have to hold up a sign saying who you are, just start over.

 

[Silver Arrows]

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

That wax statue of Tom Green made a big mistake.

 

[Linkyn]

I think the bigger issue is how bad the costume is.

 

[jesu]

The fake booty is the bigger crime.

Well Kim did it first.

 

[Alienous]

He looks like Kanye West if Kanye West was white and dipped his head in Nutella.

 

[Clydefrog]

I really don't like the grey wall.

 

[Yado]

The fake booty is the bigger crime.

It's a pretty accurate depiction of Kim's diaper booty tbh

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

I think the bigger issue is how bad the costume is.

Honestly without the sign I would have no idea what he was trying to be.

 

[Forgive Me]

I mean, he did a pretty good job at imitating another person... regardless of skin color. It's a bad costume, to be sure.

I can't see the difference, honestly, between this or if he had chose to dress up as macho man Randy Savage. Suddenly the costume isn't offensive because he isn't dressing up as someone from another race?

yes exactly

 

[studyguy]

“Haha some people thought Heath was really a black man,” she commented

Come on.

 

[SlipperyMoose]

I mean Kanye is black...it's not like he put any sterotypical features of a black man on his blackface. It's not in good taste but it is a Halloween costume that is meant to be dumb.

 

[Slayven]

Racist going to Racist

 

[Silver Arrows]

He looks like Kanye West if Kanye West was white and dipped his head in Nutella.

haha

Honestly without the sign I would have no idea what he was trying to be.

Maybe the shades...maybe.

 

[Mammoth Jones]

White kids in the background give it away....

 

[Massive Duck. C.M.]

Yep, Halloween's a-comin

Something tells me this year will be heavy on the blackface

 

[daviyoung]

he looks more flammable than Kanye

 

[akira28]

those curtains look like shit.

bad home decor, nice fake fireplace, probably a generic McManson. racist with little imagination.

 

[Zombine]

Are we sure this isn't a viral pic for Madam Tussauds Chris Bosh reveal?

 

[bjork]

nevermind the dumbass people, what is that bullshit on their wall

 

[Grizzlyjin]

The only people that would think he's really a Black guy are people who have never actually met a Black guy...then again, those are probably the type of people that were at their party.

 

[djplaeskool]

Those dollar store booty pops though

 

[Veritigo_X]

White kids in the background give it away....

The fucking ugly cursive initials over the fireplace too.

 

[Fudgepuppy]

I gotta say, that's the thickest brown I've seen with blackface.

 

[Gentleman Jack]

Happy Halloween, Black America.

 

[Slayven]

A school district employee from Decatur City, Alabama named Heath Morrow dressed in blackface for a Halloween costume as rapper Kanye West.

Jesus Christ.

 

[thesuperfunk]

looks like your average new jersey couple.

 

[……forgetit]

Every fucking Halloween.

 

[stufte]

Well at least it's not shoe polish this time I guess.

 

[TheSpoiler]

I forgot the A in G/A/F. I must be slippin.

 

[TimorousPanda]

Gross.

 

[Big Baybee]

I mean Kanye is black...it's not like he put any sterotypical features of a black man on his blackface. It's not in good taste but it is a Halloween costume that is meant to be dumb.

You don't have to paint your skin for someone to know who you are supposed to be dressing as. It offends people every time, so why do it?

 

[Guevara]

Blackface aside, both outfits are just kind of lazy. I mean she's basically wearing normal clothes and just padded her butt. He's just wearing whatever he had already, clearly.

 

[Slayven]

Heath Morrow, a 5th-grade teacher at Chestnut Grove Elementary School

Jesus Christ

http://whnt.com/2015/10/26/decatur-...teachers-controversial-photo-on-social-media/

 

[Discotheque]

"Haha some people thought Heath really was a black man"

lmao, to the trash with these people.

 

[Mimosa97]

I mean Kanye is black...it's not like he put any sterotypical features of a black man on his blackface. It's not in good taste but it is a Halloween costume that is meant to be dumb.

This.

The vast majority of black faces are just racist but I don't know about this one. It looks like just a couple of morons trying to look like a famous couple and one of them happens to be black. I don't see any racist stereotype like big lips and hair etc...

 

[fallengorn]

I don't know what's depressing. Every year there's new photos that crop up, or the discussion that always happens.

nevermind the dumbass people, what is that bullshit on their wall

Maybe they live on a houseboat that's also part of the British Royal Navy.

 

[Casimir]

That spot light needs to be replaced with a recessed one. The mantel surround should also be redone.

 

[Gordon Shumway]

Racist going to Racist

The bigger issue is the dismissal..

 

[Wreav]

How many people got mad at Dave?

There seems to be a distinction between hateful black face and skin painting, at least to me. I'm not black, but I'm not offended by either example. The Kanye face painting doesn't seem to be negative, judging by the one still photo. Features aren't exaggerated, sign isn't racist, etc.

 

[Slayven]

This.

The vast majority of black faces are just racist but I don't know about this one. It looks like just a couple of morons trying to look like a famous couple and one of them happens to be black. I don't see any racist stereotype like big lips and hair etc...

All blackface is racist.

 

[Mimosa97]

double post

 

[Veritigo_X]

I mean Kanye is black...it's not like he put any sterotypical features of a black man on his blackface. It's not in good taste but it is a Halloween costume that is meant to be dumb.

The blackface isn't necessary if the costume is good. I had a white friend in college that went as Plaxico Burress in 2009 and managed to get the message across without going blackface.

 

[akira28]

This is what Kanye means though. Irreverence with a touch of class, the ill fitting jeans with a t-shirt. A cap turned worn backward, and some 80s sunglasses. And of course a gold chain.