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This is 2017 and people still celebrate whilst dressing up as racist stereotypes such as this black face party, therefore I felt outrage. I would think that since the post Jim Crow era in the 1960s, people especially Americans would be educated to not to condone such activities that discriminate others as it was done earlier during the 1830s-1970s when white people would dress up as Black people to entertain the audience, resulting in mockery towards Africans Americans. I could not believe how insensitive these people were, especially because they were college students and I expected them to be thoughtful, however, I am a person of colour so my views would be very different to the views of those ignorant white people. Although, now that black

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