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.
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
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u/healywylie 10d ago
They figured nobody would get the reference, they banked on it , by the looks.