Staff member at elementary school in Newberg, OR showed up to work in Blackface on Friday

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

(For some reason, tweets aren't showing up in my previews, so I'm including screenshot)

[MissB]

1. It's newberg

No surprise there

[LetMyPeopleVote]

2. This person is an idiot

[lame54]

3. His Nazi uniform must have been at the cleaners...

Did he really think this would be accepted in any way?

[Ocelot II]

4. There you have a double whammy of stupid -

Anti-vax stupid and tone-deaf racism stupid.

[FBaggins]

5. Huh???

Not sure how that's supposed to make sense even if Blackface wasn't offensive.

[SharonClark]

6. Wait, there's more...

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"A fellow staff member at the school who provided initial information on the incident said Lauren Pefferle “ a special education assistant who the school district said it would not name due to it being a personnel matter“ darkened her face with iodine.
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The Blackface incident comes after a Newberg High School student was recently connected to a racist "slave trade" Snapchat group, a protest occurred in solidarity with Newberg's Black students by a visiting girls soccer team, and the school board's months-long controversial attempt to ban Black Lives Matter and Pride displays among other perceived "political" symbols.

Tai Harden-Moore, a Black woman and former candidate for school board who has children in the district, said she believes Newberg can and must be better than this incident. She drew a connection from county politics to Pefferle's actions.

"This makes sense only because we have our county commissioner, Mary Starrett, who drew that line between vaccine mandates and Jim Crow," Harden-Moore said. "That was only a couple months ago. Our county leadership is saying basic public health measures are akin to Jim Crow. There is a line between our political leadership and something like this happening. Our leadership matters."
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source: https://pamplinmedia.com/nbg/142-news/522353-417465-newberg-school-staffer-shows-up-in-blackface-pwoff