For his school’s book week parade, a 9-year-old boy in Australia wanted to dress up as his hero, AFL West Coast Eagles star Nic Naitanui. When the boy’s mother heard about the costume day, she made the regrettable decision to dress her son in blackface.
Not only did the Perth-based mother cover her son in brown paint and give him a wig of dreadlocks, but also she proceeded to share a picture of the costume on social media.
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She posted about dressing her son in blackface on the Facebook page of outspoken blogger Constance Hall. The woman wrote: “I NEED to share my absolute QUEENING moment. My son had book week parade today. He wanted to go as his idol Nic Naitanui from the west coast Eagles. I was a little worried about painting him. (So many politically correct extremists these days) he is pastey White and if I just sent him in a wig and footy gear, no one would tell who he was.”
The post continued, “So I grew a set of balls and painted my boy brown and he looked fanf***ingtastic. After being told by everyone on Facebook not to do it and it’s a horrible idea etc, my son was the f***ing parade!!! Parenting win! I’m celebrating by having a wine before 12pm love love!”
On Thursday afternoon, the photo received vast backlash and sparked social media outrage. Most users have lashed out at the mother for using blackface even when she had already acknowledged that she was aware of its offensive history. The post has since been deleted.
Constance Hall has yet to respond to media requests for comment, but she did take to Facebook to address the issue.
Hall wrote, “I don’t agree with dressing your child up in blackface, I can’t defend it. Because it is hurtful to our indigenous brothers and sisters.”
Another part of Hall’s post read, “I don’t believe that the mum in question was behaving maliciously, I don’t believe that she intended to hurt anyone. However I think it was an ill informed decision based on her view that there is too much political correctness in our world.”
What are your thoughts on this Australia mother sending her son to the book week parade in blackface?
[H/T Daily Mail]
