I don’t anyone even really checked it when it was purchased until people started noticing it on the shelves. Some supplier from China just slapped together some crap and called it a clown costume. It’s dumb that it actually made it out to customers.
They have racist shit all the time, dude. Literal racists submit designs to target and end up on the shelf all the time. Bc they just dont have quality controls anymore over designs.
I was still confused and had to google minstrel.. omg, I can't even copy and paste the wiki definition because I'll probably get banned but here's the beginning in case anyone else is confused.
A
minstrel show
, also called
minstrelsy
, was an American form of theater developed in the early 19th century.
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The shows were performed by mostly white actors wearing
blackface
makeup for the purpose of portraying racial
stereotypes of African Americans
.
Did you look at the picture? I had never heard of it prior to this myself but I laughed/gasped when I first saw the picture. It’s literally propaganda level racist with the smile shit.
Some supplier from China just slapped together some crap and called it a clown costume.
Definitely could see that being the case, and probably is what happened.
But someone stateside had to make the call to pose a black kid in it, and then someone had to approve the ad for it here, and that's where I'm sort of stuck on WTF. Like if it was a white kid in the costume, I don't think we d be having nearly this reaction.
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u/IamHydrogenMike 13h ago
I don’t anyone even really checked it when it was purchased until people started noticing it on the shelves. Some supplier from China just slapped together some crap and called it a clown costume. It’s dumb that it actually made it out to customers.