STUDENT KICKED OUT OF SCHOOL FOR BLACKFACE AUNT JEMINA COSTUME
A blackface Halloween costume has left one Long Island teen with a lot of egg on his face.
Commack High School senior Dean Jeziorkowski was ordered to leave school Friday after he turned up dressed as the black Aunt Jemima character.
Jeziorkowski, 17, refused to back down over the brouhaha, and his family refused to comment yesterday.
Fellow student Danny Cuevas, 16, who was out trick-or-treating in Jeziorkowski’s neighborhood, defended the teen.
“I don’t think it’s that racist,” he said. “At one point in time, that might have been seen as racist but not now.”
Jeziorskowski told pals he has dressed as a woman for Halloween every year since the third grade. The teen donned a bandanna and wig as part of his Aunt Jemima getup. He darted in and out of classrooms toting a syrup bottle, asking, “You want some pancakes?”
Commack High School senior Dean Jeziorkowski was ordered to leave school Friday after he turned up dressed as the black Aunt Jemima character.
Jeziorkowski, 17, refused to back down over the brouhaha, and his family refused to comment yesterday.
Fellow student Danny Cuevas, 16, who was out trick-or-treating in Jeziorkowski’s neighborhood, defended the teen.
“I don’t think it’s that racist,” he said. “At one point in time, that might have been seen as racist but not now.”
Jeziorskowski told pals he has dressed as a woman for Halloween every year since the third grade. The teen donned a bandanna and wig as part of his Aunt Jemima getup. He darted in and out of classrooms toting a syrup bottle, asking, “You want some pancakes?”
I fail to see why he was not allowed to wear this and not get this form of punishment for doing so?
I wonder when and if he has been on the Glenn beck show yet?(smile)