This shit is offensive.

And I'm speaking as a chick who isn't positive that white people wearing blackface is necessarily meant in a bad way. (It often is, but it really depends upon the spirit in which it's done. When my friends who were a heterosexual couple cross-dressed to attend a costume party as Ozzie and Sharon Osborne, were they putting down each other's gender? Of course not. Masquerade is about getting out of our own skins, if only in a superficial, symbolic way. There's nothing more natural than using such occasions to escape the limitations of race, class, and gender.)

There's simply a line that's crossed when an "artist" gives animal features to one race, and one race only. This is not subtle, or difficult to understand. Use your eyes.

The Mexican authorities ought to be ashamed of themselves.

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