How do you feel about this?

[KellyValentine]

A woman posted a picture of herself and friends in costumes. One was dressed as Trayvon Martin with a black face and the other as George Zimmerman using his hands as a gun as she stood in the middle of them. I thought it was extremely poor taste. If you haven't had a chance to see the photo you can here. The lady who put up the picture has now been fired from her job. Was this justifiable? Is it racist or just ignorant?

 

[dreamseer]

I would say probably just ignorant and distasteful. The whole situation was nothing to make a mockery of.

 

[JoanMcWench]

Was the reason this person was fired from their job directly related to this costume incident?

I have noticed, thanks to people abundantly sharing things online, people are not hired at all in the first place or fired from their existing jobs. I imagine that in the 80's there were a lot of people doing idiotic, racist, and illegal things while, somehow, maintaining their employment. I wonder why that was...

 

[Aries]

To me it sounds like racism based on what she posted about the little girl. But racism is ignorance. I find this very disgusting.

 

[Xenoyia]

A bit distasteful seeing as it didn't happen that long ago.

 

[griz bear]

It was stupid, Halloween is not an excuse for leaving behind all common sense.

 

[porterjack]

Stupid stupid and thrice stupid

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[Joe the meek]

Stupid.

 

[AUFred]

Seems like the costume wearers have some blame to take in this as well. Three wrongs don't make a right.

 

[Trellum]

Woah, and I thought the ''svarte pieter'' discussion my boyfriend was talking about earlier was too much. Well, I think this is really poor taste... I'd never make fun with something like that! A poor guy died, and making fun of this by dressing up as the victim and the murder is really rude and distasteful, but taking a picture and posting it online... that was plain stupid! It's sad she lost her job, I wonder if those two guys lost their jobs too? I mean... they're obviously the aggressors. This might haunt her forever; she might not be able to land a job for a while...

 

[KellyValentine]

Was the reason this person was fired from their job directly related to this costume incident?

I have noticed, thanks to people abundantly sharing things online, people are not hired at all in the first place or fired from their existing jobs. I imagine that in the 80's there were a lot of people doing idiotic, racist, and illegal things while, somehow, maintaining their employment. I wonder why that was...

Yes I believe she had her employer and some people contacted them and alerted them about the incident and she was then fired. It's like with the internet nowadays it's so much easier to find out information on a person and easier to get into their lives, in the 80s not as much. What I'm trying to figure out is what is the consequences for the other two. Either way it was a horrible thing to do.