Blackface has been around since the nineteenth century. Recently, for our high school football game, the theme was blackout. A few students took this theme too far, and had painted their entire face black. My friends and I confronted these individuals, they did not believe they had done anything wrong, and the conversation went south. Therefore, the teens had accused us for being racist, for this idea to even cross our minds. This topic is not some type big secret only closeted racists know about. “It was a game theme. It never even crossed my mind once to be racist. If anything, she’s racist for pulling the race card.” She then followed by saying that since she has ‘black’ friends, she clearly could not be racist. That is like when
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I should have went directly to someone higher up in the school, but I doubt they would be any help. I wish that in some way, they would understand that they were in no way a victim in this situation. These people are very lucky they are just a microscopic dot on the spectrum of life, because multiple artists, professors, etc., has had to issue public apologies for doing exactly what they had done. At the next football game, she had taken photos of people who had painted their faces purple and yellow, and basically calling us out by saying they were being ‘racist to lemons’, after she had promised to drop the entire situation if we did not say anything else. I believe the spirit club should be more careful with the themes they chose for football games, because anyone could easily perceive painting your face black, racist, and not ‘school spirit’.
In conclusion, if I could do this situation over again, I would have handled this situation differently. I should have spoken out more than what I did. I had asked some of my more conservative, against everything friends, and they even thought that painting your face black in any way shape or form was completely wrong. I wish I would have turned them into the principal, or someone else in the district, so maybe something would have happened to them for their
I should have went directly to someone higher up in the school, but I doubt they would be any help. I wish that in some way, they would understand that they were in no way a victim in this situation. These people are very lucky they are just a microscopic dot on the spectrum of life, because multiple artists, professors, etc., has had to issue public apologies for doing exactly what they had done. At the next football game, she had taken photos of people who had painted their faces purple and yellow, and basically calling us out by saying they were being ‘racist to lemons’, after she had promised to drop the entire situation if we did not say anything else. I believe the spirit club should be more careful with the themes they chose for football games, because anyone could easily perceive painting your face black, racist, and not ‘school spirit’.
In conclusion, if I could do this situation over again, I would have handled this situation differently. I should have spoken out more than what I did. I had asked some of my more conservative, against everything friends, and they even thought that painting your face black in any way shape or form was completely wrong. I wish I would have turned them into the principal, or someone else in the district, so maybe something would have happened to them for their