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'Mexican Man' costume offends Latino shoppers, community groups
Oakland Tribune ^
| 10/28/2009
| Sean Maher
Posted on 10/29/2009 9:44:55 AM PDT by DogByte6RER
'Mexican Man' costume offends Latino shoppers, community groups
By Sean Maher
EMERYVILLE A costume dubbed "Mexican Man" has offended Latino shoppers and community groups after being discovered at a Halloween chain store.
The photo on the costume packaging shows a man with a thick mustache wearing a poncho and a sombrero. Oakland resident Monica Plazola said she discovered the costume last week at the Spirit Halloween store in Emeryville, which she was visiting with her two children, ages 7 and 9.
"We were there at the store, with all kinds of costumes, and that was the only one identified racially," she said. "I was really surprised that kind of costume existed in this day and age. I was kind of stumped on it."
Her husband, Carlos, said he could not remember the last time he'd seen something so blatantly stereotypical.
"It's incredibly offensive," he said. "I can't imagine them reducing any other culture to a costume like that and calling it by that ethnic name. Reducing a culture to such a stereotype is harmful and insulting. I can't imagine a Chinese man or black man being put out there and it being OK."
Mara Chavez, deputy director at Centro Legal De La Raza in Oakland, said her organization discovered the costume when the Plazolas sent them the photos. The group is asking Spirit Halloween to pull the costumes from the shelves.
"These costumes need to be taken out and not sold," she said. "As Latinos, we are a big percentage of consumers here in the state of California, so it is to their best interest to not depict such insulting costumes. It affects them in terms of their profits as well."
The manager of Spirit Halloween in Emeryville confirmed the availability of the costume but declined to comment...
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: agitprop; amnesty; callawaaambulance; cheeseandwhine; dairyproducts; diversity; halloween; hatespeech; importingwhiners; mexican; mexicanman; mexico; multicult; outrage; pc; rageboy; squattersupportsquad
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Tacky...not my first choice for a costume.
To: DogByte6RER
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posted on
10/29/2009 9:45:55 AM PDT
by
goodnesswins
(Democrats are RACISTS and are afraid of losing their PLANTATION workers)
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posted on
10/29/2009 9:46:03 AM PDT
by
DogByte6RER
("Loose lips sink ships")
To: goodnesswins
Maybe it was the, “Frito Bandito.”
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posted on
10/29/2009 9:46:38 AM PDT
by
takbodan
(.)
To: DogByte6RER
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posted on
10/29/2009 9:47:00 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: DogByte6RER
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posted on
10/29/2009 9:47:04 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(I refuse to "reduce my carbon footprint" all while Lenin remains in an airconditioned shrine)
To: DogByte6RER
Social and cultural tails continue wagging the dog.
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posted on
10/29/2009 9:47:13 AM PDT
by
Stentor
To: DogByte6RER
Viva con Dios, amigos. We don't need no stinking green card.
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posted on
10/29/2009 9:47:33 AM PDT
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(The People have abdicated our duties; ... and anxiously hope for just two things: bread and circuses)
To: Slings and Arrows; Revolting cat!
It IS pretty tacky...
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posted on
10/29/2009 9:48:02 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(I refuse to "reduce my carbon footprint" all while Lenin remains in an airconditioned shrine)
To: DogByte6RER
I just don’t care who gets offended. When I was a kid my dad was a member of the Sons of Italy. They protested that Liggett and Meyers cigarettes sponsored Elliot Ness. Dad said if they didn’t like that they should do something about Italian involvement in organized crime. I am sick and tired of outrage from anyone, including my own. Lets just grow up.
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posted on
10/29/2009 9:48:30 AM PDT
by
AZFolks
To: DogByte6RER
"We were there at the store, with all kinds of costumes, and that was the only one identified racially," When did Mexican become a race?
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posted on
10/29/2009 9:49:06 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Soon everyone will win a Nobel Peace Prize for not being George Bush...well, except for George Bush.)
To: goodnesswins
I'm gonna go as a Senator this year:
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posted on
10/29/2009 9:49:18 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(I refuse to "reduce my carbon footprint" all while Lenin remains in an airconditioned shrine)
To: DogByte6RER
Evey Holloween I answer my door dressed as a White Guy. Seems nearly everyone is offended by that too!
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posted on
10/29/2009 9:49:40 AM PDT
by
Obadiah
(Obama: Chains you can believe in!)
To: DogByte6RER
I think it’s time to stop discriminating against ghosts and pumpkins, myself.
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posted on
10/29/2009 9:49:50 AM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: DogByte6RER
I find Clinton and Obama masks offensive. Does the media want to give me air time?
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posted on
10/29/2009 9:50:38 AM PDT
by
ChildOfThe60s
(If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
To: AZFolks
I'm outraged. She won't attend my Halloween party.
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posted on
10/29/2009 9:51:10 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(I refuse to "reduce my carbon footprint" all while Lenin remains in an airconditioned shrine)
To: a fool in paradise
Cheech Marin from “Nice Dreams”, or a look-alike.
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posted on
10/29/2009 9:51:14 AM PDT
by
SJSAMPLE
To: a fool in paradise
HA...reminds me of my days in LATIN Club in High School....TOGA Night!
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posted on
10/29/2009 9:51:39 AM PDT
by
goodnesswins
(Democrats are RACISTS and are afraid of losing their PLANTATION workers)
To: DogByte6RER
"We were there at the store, with all kinds of costumes, and that was the only one identified racially," she said. "Mexican" is a nationality, not a race, you colossal dipwad.
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posted on
10/29/2009 9:52:29 AM PDT
by
Sloth
(For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of the International Olympic Committee.)
To: Cicero
You'd think that the French people are only good serving master as a maid...
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posted on
10/29/2009 9:52:41 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(I refuse to "reduce my carbon footprint" all while Lenin remains in an airconditioned shrine)
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