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Kid suspended for wearing eyeblack that idot administration deemed "blackface."

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Kid suspended for wearing eyeblack that idot administration deemed "blackface."

I have made my kid wash off his eye black for a baseball game because it was a little too close to blackface. I feel like if your eyes aren't completely engulfed by eye black then you're probably OK. My kid's eye black was basically his whole face, he had no idea why I was so pissed when I saw it. He was completely oblivious to what blackface even was. It's not a kid issue, it's an adult overreaction issue. Unless in fact it IS blackface. What this kid did is NOT blackface. TBH this pattern of eye black does look stupid though.
 
Something something I smell a lawsuit coming.
 
Meanwhile, here's a picture of the Prime Minister of Canada.
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I have made my kid wash off his eye black for a baseball game because it was a little too close to blackface. I feel like if your eyes aren't completely engulfed by eye black then you're probably OK. My kid's eye black was basically his whole face, he had no idea why I was so pissed when I saw it. He was completely oblivious to what blackface even was. It's not a kid issue, it's an adult overreaction issue. Unless in fact it IS blackface. What this kid did is NOT blackface. TBH this pattern of eye black does look stupid though.
Lets be real though if a kid does accidental blackface it's a teachable moment not a suspension
 
The school was already failing him because he believes his eyes are under his chin.
 
Has eye black gotten easier to remove since 2008? It was enough of a pain in the ass to remove a simple line from below my eyes, I can't imagine rubbing my entire face raw to get all of that shit off.
 
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