Sharonville, Ohio – A UPS employee in Ohio has been fired for wearing blackface as part of her Halloween costume.
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The Cincinnati Enquirer reports UPS media relations manager Kim Krebs cited the company’s strict policies against harassment and discrimination for the dismissal. Krebs says in a statement the company has “no tolerance for hatred, bigotry or prejudice.”
It’s not clear whether the woman wore the costume to work. UPS declined to name the employee.
Kansas City hospital officials said Tuesday an employee who posted photos of herself in blackface no longer works there. The woman was dressed as Beyoncé in a photo on her now-removed Facebook page.
Morning show host Megyn Kelly was fired from NBC last month after suggesting it was OK for white people to wear blackface at Halloween.
This is dress-up. How can a white women dress up in a costume as a specific Black women except to include “blackface” ?
Welcome to the new world order and the champions of political correctness. The response to this and other incidents is to ban all participation in the pagan ritual of Halloween. Of course, on Purim, dressing up as Vashti in green face and tail will be equally offensive and just cause for terminating employment.
Blackface was/is Jim Crow reduced to a smirk instead of a noose. For Jews, a near equivalent might be a sneering Gentile putting on a fake nose and peyos and singing the blues against the background of a concentration-camp mockup.