For anyone reading this post, if you don’t learn or remember anything, remember this… BLACK FACE IS NEVER OK. Complex.com expose these racist athlete extremely offensive and distasteful costume. Here is their weak explanation.
Three players on an Australian rules football team—Mitch Stanley, Matt Chamberlain, and Beau Grundy of the Penguin Football Club in Tasmania—apologized for an apparent attempt to “dress as one of their sporting idols,” the club said in a statement. Those “idols” were Serena Williams and Venus Williams, and by “dress,” they meant blackface, which they “never intended to be racist in any way.”
I’m willing to bet these players have smart phones where a quick google search would have educated them on the many reason why this is flat-out wrong.
Blackface has long been used as a costume of sorts that reinforces hurtful caricatures of minorities. “It was not their intention to upset anyone,” the statement said. Thankfully, the rest of the apology is less naive:
“Those concerned have been reprimanded and will be given support to make sure they understand that their behavior was racist and hurtful and that it will not happen again. The players concerned have acknowledged that what they did was completely and utterly unacceptable and would like to apologize unreservedly for their lack of judgment.”
Racism is not just an American thing for you guys who don’t get out much, this just shows ignorance more than lack of culture as I imagine some of you will attempt to argue. Shout out to the people who allowed a certain Canadian rapper who may or may not write his lyrics slide on a similar issue. Flip below to see Twitter react to these “costumes”.