First grade teacher under fire for wearing blackface for Halloween party
A clueless educator in Iowa is under fire after painting her face Black to represent a movie character as part of her Halloween costume.
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First grade teacher, Megan Luloff dressed up as LaFawnduh Lucas-Dynamite, a Black character from the Napoleon Dynamite movie, while attending a party and posing for pictures that surfaced online.
LaFawnduh was portrayed by actress Shondrella Avery in the popular movie.
Luloff, who went all out for the racist portrayal, sports blackface and her arms, hands and feet are painted black also.
The teacher’s racially insensitive costume and sounded alarms with administrators who said that “blackface is never appropriate in any circumstance by any person,” Davenport School District Superintendent Art Tate told the Quad-City Times.
Betty C. Andrews with the Iowa-Nebraska NAACP Conference of Branches called Luloff’s behavior “very disconcerting.”
Andrews told the newspaper that for several African-Americans, “depictions like these deliver messages of fear and trauma.”
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That’s a message that was missed recently when NBC’s Today Show host Megyn Kelly defended white people wearing blackface and naïvely questioned whether the use of blackface on Halloween is really racist.
“But what is racist?” Kelly pondered on Megyn Kelly Today to a panel that included Jenna Bush Hager, Jacob Soboroff and Melissa Rivers. “You truly do get in trouble if you are a white person who puts on blackface at Halloween or a black person who puts on whiteface for Halloween.”
“Back when I was a kid, that was OK, as long as you were dressing up as like a character,” Kelly continued.
After much backlash for that statement, including criticism from her own colleagues, NBC is now reportedly parting ways with Kelly.
After Luloff’s own blackface photo took flight, she reportedly deleted all of her social media.
