Here's A Reminder Not To Wear Blackface This Halloween (Or Ever)

Halloween is this Saturday. On Sunday, we'll wake up to a story that reads like this: A photo has surfaced on social media, showing a (probably white, but definitely not black) person wearing blackface as part of their (black person) costume, igniting a firestorm. Always a firestorm. It never fails. Every Halloween, blackface and its racist origins become a topic of a national conversation -- and not because people are suddenly interested in learning about the history of racial oppression in the...