And little white girls dressing like Pocahontas...like they think they can paint with all the colors of the wind.

What I think is that we should segregate costume shops for each race. That would fix everything!

Good point. I agree we should teach our kids at a very young age to stay only within their strictly defined racial borders, to keep their mouths shut about it, and to loathe themselves for the colonial and post-colonial sins committed by people they only have the color of their skin in common with. How dare the evil…

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Thank you. We have apparently, as a society, decided that someone dressing up as a person from another race is culturally insensitive, but people need to stop calling it blackface.

As someone with Scandinavian heritage it royally pissed me off last year when all of the little girls of various non scandavian heritage were dressing up as our legendary Snow Queen, Elsa. They even wore Blonde wigs!!!! Brown kids with Blonde wigs!!! How dare they!?!

make a costume overlay that puts the tattoos on the child’s own skin color, and they wear a t-shirt and leggings to match.

Jizzebel is leaking.

“simply make a costume overlay that puts the tattoos on the child’s own skin color”

Slow your Roll SJW.

Brown/blackface: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Probably all of them because parents are tired and painting a whole face one color is boring. So even the ones who don’t know better will say, “It looks good like that! Let’s go!” (I’m a tired parent.)

White folk are damned if the do and damned if they don’t.

Yes. It would. This really is ridiculous.

Why are we assuming the kids who will wear this are white? I don’t really see a big deal with this, I was bothered by the Bob Marley snapchat filter but it’s really up to parents to decide if they should buy this for their white child and make their kids look stupid.

That’s not to say Disney shouldn’t make a Maui costume at all, but it would be more respectful to simply make a costume overlay that puts the tattoos on the child’s own skin color, and they wear a t-shirt and leggings to match. While that would mean getting rid of the bulky muscles, I see that as a win-win. We’re not…

So no brown face shown? Just assumption that kids will paint their faces brown?

Uh... I’m brown. What else are you supposed to do for a $20-40 Halloween costume? Make the tattoos on clear wrap and effectively send kids out in their underwear? Your solution would a) never work with that many tattoos, and b) make everyone wonder who it's supposed to be with a shirt and pants on (especially because…