If you think it’s wrong for little kids to identify with characters who have a different skin tone, lighten/darken their skin to better resemble that specific character, and celebrate that connection on a day designated for costumes, then congratulations: You’re a segregationist.
A kid loving a character and wanting to be just like that character is not a problem. People who see skin color differences like that as an issue are the problem. If my kid loves a black character that much I’m gonna encourage the hell out of him, not lecture him on segregation.
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If my kid wanted to dress that way I’d know I did a good job as a parent because he sees so little difference in skin color that he thinks it’s literally JUST COLOR.
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If I’m dressing my kid as a blackface minstrel to make light of racial mockery? That’s not cool. But changing skin color to be closer to a character you admire and look up to? Man, we should all aspire to think skin color means so little as that.
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Caution because of lunatics and cultural police, yes. Anything actually wrong with changing your skin color in any direction because you admire a character or historical figure? Nope.
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