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7 Other Costumes Target Was Forced To Pull Due To Racist Connotations
BabylonBee.com ^ | Aug 25, 2026 | BabylonBee

Posted on 08/31/2026 8:08:01 AM PDT by fwdude

Retail giant Target came under fire this week for selling a "Blacklight Circus Clown Halloween Costume," which essentially amounted to a kid in blackface dressed like a Jim Crow-era minstrel. Whoops! However, that wasn't the only costume Target was forced to pull from its shelves.

Here are seven other costumes that got the axe:

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Conspiracy; Humor
KEYWORDS: satire

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HaHa!!!

You know they couldn't help this.

1 posted on 08/31/2026 8:08:01 AM PDT by fwdude
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To: fwdude
1. Construction Worker:

Construction Worker

2 posted on 08/31/2026 8:09:34 AM PDT by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left)
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To: fwdude

#4....a White kid? apparently The Bee also fears backlash from a certain ethnicity.


3 posted on 08/31/2026 8:13:38 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America....so great even the people that hate it won't leave!)
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To: V_TWIN

The kid looks like he has a gold “grill,” if you look closely. LOL!!!


4 posted on 08/31/2026 8:14:39 AM PDT by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left)
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To: fwdude

I saw Bank Owner and almost spewed Sprite on my iPad.


5 posted on 08/31/2026 8:15:17 AM PDT by Ciaphas Cain
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To: fwdude

Casino operator and Spy are very good. I about lost it on ‘Banker”.


6 posted on 08/31/2026 8:16:06 AM PDT by Delta 21 (None of us are descendants of fearful men!)
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To: fwdude
8. Democrat voter:


7 posted on 08/31/2026 8:16:14 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: fwdude

Yeah I saw that.

Not statistically accurate IMO.


8 posted on 08/31/2026 8:16:44 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America....so great even the people that hate it won't leave!)
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To: V_TWIN

It’s the same kid for each costume. The Bee is making fun of the left’s conniption fits over “cultural appropriation”.


9 posted on 08/31/2026 8:17:34 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Tell It Right
I'm upset over the cultural appropriation of my european storytelling heritage.
Bring back Don Post.

10 posted on 08/31/2026 8:28:07 AM PDT by Waverunner (Torah! Torah! Torah! my favorite IDF radio code.)
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To: fwdude

The 7-11 manager reminds me of the Joe Biden comment about 7-11s in Delaware requiring an Indian accent.


11 posted on 08/31/2026 8:33:39 AM PDT by vaskypilot
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To: fwdude
Should have been a Blower
12 posted on 08/31/2026 8:37:21 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (... )
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To: fwdude

I saw a racist costume in a store the other day: a sombrero, a serape, and a toy lawnmower. Just joking.


13 posted on 08/31/2026 9:08:22 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle1
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The ad wasn’t a white kid in blackface, but a black kid in clown face. You have to ridicule these idiots in to obscurity.


14 posted on 08/31/2026 9:46:35 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: Steve_Seattle1

Walking into a Walmart ten years ago I saw a big shiny riding mower on display by the entrance. A weary young Latino woman came in with five little offspring who commenced running around the tractor screaming “Poppi! Poppi!”.

A few Caucasion shoppers and myself looked at each other sharing the same thought: Living the stereotype.


15 posted on 08/31/2026 11:12:15 AM PDT by MikelTackNailer (Just replace restroom signs with XX and XY. Now THAT's "settled science".)
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To: fwdude

This kind of crap is stealing what used to be fun. Democrats ruin everything.


16 posted on 08/31/2026 11:35:24 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.)
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To: fwdude

LMAO!

This one’s solid gold.


17 posted on 08/31/2026 11:39:44 AM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man, but it's okay... I wasn't married to it.)
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To: MikelTackNailer

I was sitting outside an eatery once smokin’ a cig when a black family walked up. there was a young kid with them who jumped up and hung by a tree branch and swung back and forth turning his head on each change of swing direction. I knew exactly what the kid was doin, mimicking the antics of some pro NBA players after a good dunk! But to the mother lmao... seeing me watching the kid, grabbed that little guy and about whooped his ass, no doubt thinking he looked like a swinging monkey.... I just got up and walked away smh...


18 posted on 08/31/2026 11:51:44 AM PDT by sit-rep (I may be Dumb, but I'm not Stupid!)
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To: Steve_Seattle1

Who are you kidding?

I saw that in my neighbor’s front yard.


19 posted on 08/31/2026 12:13:39 PM PDT by HKMk23 (https://youtu.be/LTseTg48568)
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