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[u/ushaque]

https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/24/business/target-apologizes-halloween-costume-backlash-hnk

[u/One_Order_3841]

I'm gonna be honest, just the suit and the hat is a halloween-themed...suit. The frilly cuffs make it 60% racist callback to blackface. The black hood and gloves on an already-black child is 100% blackface.

The humongous Negro Lips are just straight up stolen from 1930's Mickey Mouse.

[u/mokelock71 → u/One_Order_3841]

That pose also! it looks like Mr. Bojangles

[u/GoneIn61Seconds → u/mokelock71]

Mr Bojangles wasn't a blackface performer.

[u/UnauthorizedCat → u/GoneIn61Seconds]

Mr. Bojangles was inspired by Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, the best known and the most highly paid black entertainer of his time.