Reply #31: Halloween can be "theatrics" to some people.

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To others it has apparently become an opportunity to express racism.

I think you have to know what the intent was.

Ok some people receive messages that weren't intended and the person is responsible anyway.

I don't know for sure that this guy intended to be racist. I agree that it was stupid.

Once upon a time - I dressed up with black face paint with yellow, orange and green polka dots. For someone whose perception was different from my intent they might have just really noticed the black and not thought of it as a non-objective abstraction which is how I intended it.

Looking back I wouldn't do it again - it was 20 years ago. I've been blue, purple, green, glittery, white... but not black. Even though I had no intention of doing blackface - I realized that that is how someone could have seen it anyway.