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Target apologizes, removes costume that “resembled” Jim Crow

Posted on 8/24/26 at 8:53 pm
Posted by HailHailtoMichigan!
Mission Viejo, CA
Member since Mar 2012
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Posted on 8/24/26 at 8:53 pm
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Target apologized for a Halloween circus clown costume that critics said appeared to conjure Blackface and 19th-century minstrel shows.

The costume, sold as the "Kids' Glows Under ?Blacklight Circus Clown Halloween Costume," prompted a social media backlash.

"As a company, we know we got this wrong, and we are deeply sorry. The costume is offensive and should never have been part of our assortment," Target said in a statement.



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Posted by Major Dutch Schaefer
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Posted on 8/24/26 at 8:55 pm to
Never apologize
Posted by SingleMalt1973
Member since Feb 2022
26075 posts
Posted on 8/24/26 at 8:56 pm to
I’m thought Ole Miss fans bought them all?
Posted by High C
viewing the fall....
Member since Nov 2012
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Posted on 8/24/26 at 8:59 pm to
You have to inspect that for a very long time to find something to be offended about.
Posted by fr33manator
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2010
135324 posts
Posted on 8/24/26 at 9:01 pm to
"Resembled"


From the French


"Looks absolutely nothing like"


quote:

As a company, we know we got this wrong, and we are deeply sorry.


How can you "get something wrong" unless it was intentional?


quote:

The costume is offensive and should never have been part of our assortment," Target said in a statement.



How is it offensive? Creepy clowns are offensive now?

Or is it the black kid that's offensive, target? Can blacks not be clowns?
This post was edited on 8/24/26 at 9:04 pm
Posted by TheGeauxt9
South Louisiana
Member since May 2021
1370 posts
Posted on 8/24/26 at 9:02 pm to
Soft as baby shite culture they perpetrate
Posted by UptownJoeBrown
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2024
13190 posts
Posted on 8/24/26 at 9:03 pm to
Just make everyone in advertising cartoon yellow.
Posted by F1y0n7h3W4LL
Below I-10
Member since Jul 2019
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Posted on 8/24/26 at 9:04 pm to
quote:

Target apologized for a Halloween circus clown costume that critics said appeared to conjure Blackface and 19th-century minstrel shows.


Free subtle advertisement.
Posted by TigerHornII
Member since Feb 2021
1238 posts
Posted on 8/24/26 at 9:06 pm to
quote:

How is it offensive? Creepy clowns are offensive now?


They tried to be "equitable" and stuck a black kid in it. If the kid had been white or asian you would have never heard of any of this. Morons.
Posted by Kafka
I am the moral conscience of TD
Member since Jul 2007
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Posted on 8/24/26 at 9:07 pm to
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Jim Crow
his brother

Posted by Dixie2023
Member since Mar 2023
5877 posts
Posted on 8/24/26 at 9:08 pm to
With that grin? We’d have heard about it. Wonder if other stores pulled.
Posted by PGAOLDBAWNevahBroke
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Posted on 8/24/26 at 9:12 pm to
Costumes bad. Shootings, no prob
Posted by Riverside
Member since Jul 2022
11709 posts
Posted on 8/24/26 at 9:15 pm to
The costume doesn’t resemble “Jim Crow.” What a retarded thing to get upset about.
Posted by Bestbank Tiger
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Posted on 8/24/26 at 9:19 pm to
Target deserves every bit of this.
Posted by SallysHuman
Lady Palmetto Bug
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26059 posts
Posted on 8/24/26 at 9:28 pm to
That costume would look a lot different if a white kid were in it.

How's it blackface if a black kid is wearing it anyway?
Posted by themunch
in motion
Member since Jan 2007
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Posted on 8/24/26 at 9:31 pm to
quote:

it the black kid that's offensive


And that is how it is said as well.
Posted by theCrusher
Slidell
Member since Nov 2007
1861 posts
Posted on 8/24/26 at 10:05 pm to
And it a black kid because of equity and inclusion.

I bet 90% of their costume models are some shade of brown.
Posted by tigerfan84
Member since Dec 2003
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Posted on 8/24/26 at 10:14 pm to
Posted by Shorts Guy
BR
Member since Dec 2023
1152 posts
Posted on 8/24/26 at 10:19 pm to
So will the black family whose kid modeled for the photograph also have to apologize and give back the money they were paid?

This is quite the stretch.
Posted by AcadieAnne
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Member since May 2019
1899 posts
Posted on 8/24/26 at 10:21 pm to
quote:

If the kid had been white or asian you would have never heard of any of this.


Yep. Someone in the ad department trying to meet the DEI quota done messed up.

Still shouldn't have apologized, though.

This post was edited on 8/24/26 at 10:24 pm
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