Blackface or too much bronzer? Wash. high school student is blasted over yearbook photo
A female high school student in Washington state is under fire for a yearbook photo of herself that some say looks like blackface.
"It got posted all over Twitter and it sparked a huge, enormous argument," freshman student Andre Stepanov at Shorewood High School told KING 5 News.
Junior Case Macklin said the backlash on social media has been brutal.
"There have been some pretty mean comments. Some people have actually been telling her to go kill herself," the student said.
Neither thinks there was any racism intended.
"I think it just looks like a really, really bad tan, like she went to the tanning salon," said Stepanov.
The girl was messing around with friends and put a great deal of bronzer on her face, her friends said. The yearbook photo contained the note "Do you think this is my color?"
The outcry has been loud and lengthy.
"Nah it ain't your color STOP DOING BLACKFACE," wrote a Twitter poster with handle NaQuelBy10o.
"This is like poking a bear then crying and getting mad when it bites you," a poster with the handle ChrisB. wrote on her Twitter account.
"The cracker race strikes again," wrote Kuh-Reem.
The female student wrote several tweets saying she was not being racist with her photo, but only making fun of having a really bad tan, courtesy of a tanning salon.
She also apologized. But the tweets kept coming.
"What you did was wrong so just own up to it," wrote a poster under the name queen ivy.
The school district said it would apologize. Adult yearbook advisers did not catch the photo, said a spokesman for the district.
"It's clearly hurtful," said Craig Degginger of Shoreline Schools. "That image should not have been included in the Shorewood High School yearbook."
A female high school student in Washington state is under fire for a yearbook photo of herself that some say looks like blackface.
"It got posted all over Twitter and it sparked a huge, enormous argument," freshman student Andre Stepanov at Shorewood High School told KING 5 News.
Junior Case Macklin said the backlash on social media has been brutal.
"There have been some pretty mean comments. Some people have actually been telling her to go kill herself," the student said.
Neither thinks there was any racism intended.
"I think it just looks like a really, really bad tan, like she went to the tanning salon," said Stepanov.
The girl was messing around with friends and put a great deal of bronzer on her face, her friends said. The yearbook photo contained the note "Do you think this is my color?"
The outcry has been loud and lengthy.
"Nah it ain't your color STOP DOING BLACKFACE," wrote a Twitter poster with handle NaQuelBy10o.
"This is like poking a bear then crying and getting mad when it bites you," a poster with the handle ChrisB. wrote on her Twitter account.
"The cracker race strikes again," wrote Kuh-Reem.
The female student wrote several tweets saying she was not being racist with her photo, but only making fun of having a really bad tan, courtesy of a tanning salon.
She also apologized. But the tweets kept coming.
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"What you did was wrong so just own up to it," wrote a poster under the name queen ivy.
The school district said it would apologize. Adult yearbook advisers did not catch the photo, said a spokesman for the district.
"It's clearly hurtful," said Craig Degginger of Shoreline Schools. "That image should not have been included in the Shorewood High School yearbook."