New Jersey 101.5 » Meridian Ranch Elementary School http://nj1015.com New Jersey News Sun, 26 May 2013 02:43:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Boy Pays Tribute to MLK in Blackface – Gets Kicked Out of School – Is It Offensive? [POLL] http://nj1015.com/boy-pays-tribute-to-mlk-in-blackface-gets-kicked-out-of-school-is-it-offensive-poll/ http://nj1015.com/boy-pays-tribute-to-mlk-in-blackface-gets-kicked-out-of-school-is-it-offensive-poll/#comments Wed, 23 May 2012 02:14:11 +0000 Ray Rossi http://nj1015.com/?p=108396 Perhaps it’s naivete on the part of parents, dressing up their son in costume to pay tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by applying black makeup to his face to complete the look.

After all, there was a time when the image of the blackfaced minstrel was thought of as a pejorative

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