Second grade student wears black face for Martin Luther King Jr project [VIDEO]
A second grade student in Colorado was forced to leave school after he wore black face paint to dress up like Martin Luther King Jr for a class project.
Sean King and his family say the principal of Meridian Ranch Elementary in Colorado Springs asked him to remove the makeup because it was offensive. The family says the principal was acting on a complaint from the teacher.
But Sean, who is white, said he doesn’t understand why anyone would get offended by his costume, which included a dark suit and a fake bushy mustache.
‘Offensive’: Sean King, a second grader, says he can’t understand why anyone found his costume offensive
‘They thought it was inappropriate and it will be disrespectful to black people. And I say it’s not,’ Sean told KRDO-TV.
‘I like black people. It’s just a costume and I don’t want to insult anybody.’
This child was trying to portray MLK and I doubt that he was being cynical. We need to attack issues of importance and not cry every time we think something is racist.
It’s not about this child it’s about his despicable idiot parents who allowed him to go to school looking like this. They should be teaching this kid that if people don’t have basic respect for each other it will lead to bigger problems. If he was older he might have gotten his a*s whipped.
You are correct, this was the fault of the parents. Every idiot wants their 15 min and to use your own child is just wrong.
Was this for a play or something, if it was I see nothing wrong with that as a blackman, but just going to school this way I can see where it would be offensive.