Today in Racist Fuckery (11/19/14): In the town of Sullivan, roughly 60 miles east of St Louis, and in the shadow of months of unrest over the death of Mike Brown, a group of high school seniors thought it would be a great idea to play powder puff football in blackface. Lord, deliver us from the ignorance!
Wearing Blackface, Sullivan High School Seniors Play Game of Powder-Puff Football
By Danny Wicentowski Wed., Nov. 19 2014 at 10:30 AM
When a dozen teen girls in blackface ran onto the Sullivan High School football field November 5 for a powder-puff game, Jennifer Schmidt recalls her gut reaction as, âOh my gosh.â
âAnd then I thought, âOh, they donât mean anything by it. Just let it go. No one thinks anything of it.â I didnât think anyone did,â says Schmidt, the principal of Sullivan High School. âEvidently, someone did.â
Evidently indeed. Photos taken during the game show twelve members of the senior class wearing dour expressions beneath full-blown blackface, and someone at the game shared those photos on Facebook. The reactions to the photos have been rippling within the small town of Sullivan (60 miles southwest of St. Louis) ever since.
The girls, says Schmidt, have been âvery embarrassed and shocked at some of the responses theyâve gotten, because I think some people had some stuff on Facebook and got the wrong intention.â
The powder-puff football tournament is a yearly tradition at the school, says Schmidt. Organized by the junior class, each grade fields a team, the football coaches stand in as referees, and members of the boysâ varsity football team act as coaches. The entrance fees from the tournament benefit prom.
"Itâs just a fun kind of fundraiser," Schmidt says. "There were a few people in the crowd, not a lot. It was cold."
Photos of the game later appeared on the athletic departmentâs Twitter feed. Schmidt tells Daily RFT that photos were intentionally taken at a distance, to the point where itâs impossible to discern the painted faces.
Schmidt adds that itâs been common practice for the senior girlsâ team to wear face paint during the powder-puff football tournament, essentially as a parody of the eye black football players normally wear to decrease glare from the sun and lights. The face paint also serves to âto intimidate the underclassmen.â
According to Schmidt, in previous years the girls have wore combinations of the schoolsâ colors â black and gold. But when the senior girls arrived prior to the November 5 game, they discovered everyone had brought the same color face paint â black.
"So thatâs what they wore," says Schmidt. "There was nothing racial about it. They didnât have any other intention other than to just try to intimidate the underclassmen."
Schmidt tells Daily RFT that the school hasnât taken any disciplinary action against the students in the photos.
"I can assure you they will not be wearing black face paint again," she says. "In fact, weâre probably just going to end the face-paint thing, and nobody wears any at all."
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Seriously, the rest of the article is a pretty decent read. Talks about the larger discussion one of the students is leading about Blackface. Be warned thoughâ it features pics and commentary on Mike Brown/Darren Wilson Halloween costumes. #staywoke
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