This is what I immediately thought of...

Thank you for this. I get so tired of the internet thought-police flipping out over things that are totally innocuous. The second paragraph voices how I feel to a T. It seems to me that this is an internet phenomena, and perhaps college-culture. I hope it stays thereabouts.

um I thought they were attached to white american ethnicity.That isnt an ethnicity?

I'm sorry...HOW is the this more offensive than blackface?

Ugh because they're not darkening their faces because guess what? THEY'RE BROWN people!!!! Let's see also a chola is not a race of people also blackface had a horrible, disgusting history intended to dehumanize AN ENTIRE RACE of people.

From Chicago and black (SOUTHSIDE!). Ahem. This was just a thing back in the 90s; there were so many girl groups that dressed like this. Anywho, all of this 90s get up is back.

Yeah I really cant get mad at this. It definitely wasn't a Latina only thing. Cholas came in all shades. At least where I came from.

As a Latina growing up in NorCal where there is a lot if gang activity I saw this all the time growing up and cholas came in all races— hell my white tattoo artist is more of a cholo than any Latino guy that I know right now. He even knows the lingo and it doesn't bother me the least bit- he grew up in East LA with a…

I just said t he same. I'm black and I dressed like that in the early to mid 90's. It was kind of a "hood" look here. (Miami.)

I'm in Miami and black. We dressed just like that in the early to mid 90's. I didn't even know what cholas was until I started seeing it on sites.

Same in the Bay Area...I grew up with Latina cholas, Black cholas, Filipina cholas...I miss my gurls...

My half black sister dressed just like this in the early 90s... I kinda thought it was more of a throwback thing myself.

I can honestly say that there are many ethnicities that do chola. As a girl from LA it really is a style and less about ethnicity.

Er, I'm Mexican-American and I don't find their costumes particularly offensive. At least they're not White and they're brown already soooo. . . I mean, they might as well just said they dressed up as female rappers (ghetto fabulous clothing and all) because that's what they did. The style is just the same as the…