A Republican candidate for sheriff preemptively released a photo of himself in blackface

[jpak]

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/12/us/blackface-craig-stivender-south-carolina-campaign-trnd/index.html

(CNN)A Republican sheriff candidate in South Carolina is trying to own up to his "mistakes." But critics say he's missing a key component: an apology.

In a campaign ad posted Tuesday on Facebook, Craig Stivender, who is running for sheriff of Colleton County, South Carolina, lists off his perceived faults: a ticket for driving without a license, getting divorced and remarried, fender benders that were his fault and losing his temper at work.

But then he transitions to something a little more controversial. He went to a party dressed in blackface. And he included a photo of himself from that night in his campaign video..

He sets the scene: It was "about 10 years ago" and, as a young police officer at a Halloween party, he dressed up as Demetrius "Big Meech" Flenory, a notorious drug trafficker.

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[blogslut]

1. Yeah, no.

Just no.

[mopinko]

2. is this taking the definition too far?

i dont think dressing up as a actual person who was black, and matching that skin color, is the same as playing on the blackface minstrel trope.
is it?

sorta thought that about the trudeau thing.