Posted on 05/08/2019 10:45:44 AM PDT by simpson96
A woman reported a blackface incident to police Saturday after she saw a group of young people at a Mokena gas station in black facial masks.
The white teens had applied black peel-off facial masks before going to the Speedway at 19724 Wolf Road about 3:15 p.m. Saturday, Mokena Police Chief Steve Vaccaro said.
“[The masks] had to dry for a certain period of time, so they went to the Speedway to get slushies,” Vaccaro said.
He said the Freeman-brand masks were made out of volcanic ash and were supposed to clear pores. Facial masks such as this one typically are applied as a gel or liquid on an individual’s face.
A young woman took offense to the masks and told police it appeared the teenagers were depicting blackface – the racist practice of a white person darkening his or her face.
Blackface stems from minstrel shows in the early 1800s, in which white performers with blackened faces depicted blacks as lazy, ignorant and prone to criminal acts, according to the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Vaccaro said police determined there was “no criminality,” but a school resource officer from Lincoln-Way School District 210 did reach out to the department for information on the incident.
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Long ago George Carlin quipped about flesh colored bandages being something else we left Black people out of. “We left Whites out of that one, too. I don’t know anyone that color. And I don’t know anyone who’s skin is laid out in grids. It’s bleeping science fiction, man!”
“blackface – the racist practice of a white person darkening his or her face.”
Of course, always, there could not possibly ever be an instance of this being a non racist act.
And I suppose slushies can somehow be racist. They’re mostly ice, that’s offensive to Eskimos? Better keep my big mouth shut or the snowflakes will get more dumb ideas.
It says the school resource officer reached out to the police department for information.
You think the students got in trouble?
“A woman reported a blackface incident to police”
Say those words slowly.
Unbelievable.
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Sadly, it’s all too believable.
Does that apply to Antifa, too>?
I didn’t think so.
The “young woman” who called the police is clearly one of the perpetually offended, who see everything in their world through the prism of race.
I’m still trying to figure out why black women who have their hair straightened are not accused of “white appropriation”.
OMG! Not a BFI?? Quick, run around in circles!
Most people probably wouldn’t go out in public with a cosmetic mask on, but teenagers evidently would. And most adults would see them and think, ah, those crazy teenagers, and mind his or her own damned business.
Oh good God.
I am SO SICK of these jackasses thinking they can 911 over any real OR percieved “insult” and get them in jail.
This country has become absurd and insane.
If they’d been wearing green masks (made from avocados or whatever) would she have reported a Martian invasion?
You hear about how your guns should have trigger locks on them “for safety.” I think there are a lot of folks out there who need “trigger locks” on their mouths if not their brains.
Sheesh. As someone else said, perpetually offended!
This makes my brain hurt. The person who called should be arrested for being a public nuisance.
How much longer before the Rev. Al and AOC are involved in all of this, demanding this product be banned?
That’s bad enough. What’s even worse is that the police did not warn her that it’s a crime to waste police resources reporting things that are not crimes, and hang up on her.
“a school resource officer from Lincoln-Way School District 210 did reach out to the department for information on the incident”
Right, so the school PC-police want the names of the kids so they can punish them for doing nothing wrong, off school grounds and outside of school hours.
On the positive side, the “teens” are now qualified to be elected as Democrat governors of Virginia.
The cops should send her a bill for wasting their time.
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