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RE: Fox at it again: dresses black kid up as watermelon for Halloween segment
October 22, 2017 at 7:55 pm
While it may be inappropriate and unthinking, this was a little over the top:
Quote:"... one black child was forced to wear a costume".... (bold mine)
Do any of you really think the kid was forced?
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RE: Fox at it again: dresses black kid up as watermelon for Halloween segment
October 22, 2017 at 8:00 pm
(October 22, 2017 at 7:55 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: While it may be inappropriate and unthinking, this was a little over the top:
Quote:"... one black child was forced to wear a costume".... (bold mine)
Do any of you really think the kid was forced?
I wonder why the parents even thought it was a good idea to begin with; certainly, the parents had a say in what their child wore, no?
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RE: Fox at it again: dresses black kid up as watermelon for Halloween segment
October 22, 2017 at 9:56 pm
(October 22, 2017 at 8:00 pm)Lutrinae Wrote: (October 22, 2017 at 7:55 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: While it may be inappropriate and unthinking, this was a little over the top:
Quote:"... one black child was forced to wear a costume".... (bold mine)
Do any of you really think the kid was forced?
I wonder why the parents even thought it was a good idea to begin with; certainly, the parents had a say in what their child wore, no?
There is that also. Maybe he was just dropped off.
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RE: Fox at it again: dresses black kid up as watermelon for Halloween segment
October 22, 2017 at 10:05 pm
(October 22, 2017 at 10:00 pm)Whateverist Wrote: (October 22, 2017 at 7:55 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: While it may be inappropriate and unthinking, this was a little over the top:
Quote:"... one black child was forced to wear a costume".... (bold mine)
Do any of you really think the kid was forced?
Nah they probably paid market value for his self esteem. If they got a really young one they could put a little jockey suit on him and have him hold up a lantern. Sick bastards would really enjoy that shit.
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RE: Fox at it again: dresses black kid up as watermelon for Halloween segment
October 23, 2017 at 8:30 am
Problem is this type of overreaction is becoming the norm.
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RE: Fox at it again: dresses black kid up as watermelon for Halloween segment
October 23, 2017 at 10:43 am
The kid in yellow is a banana going bad. Those racist bastards!
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RE: Fox at it again: dresses black kid up as watermelon for Halloween segment
October 23, 2017 at 12:29 pm
(October 22, 2017 at 11:13 am)Mathilda Wrote: As a non-American I don't get it. What's racially insensitive about a water melon?
I don't really get it either. Maybe it's just certain areas or something, but it seems like it would be easy for this to occur and to have nothing to do with racism. I would give them the benefit of the doubt, that they didn't know or intend anything.
Besides, some of those costumes where just horrible. I bet their was a fight for watermelon and pineapple costumes.
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