BLACK FACE: Canada and Political Correctness

Picture this: A group of University of Toronto students dress up for a Halloween costume party in what I think is a pretty unique and decent costume idea while at the same time pretty tasteful and not offensive.

WRONG....

A group of U of T students dressed up as the 'All Black' Jamaican bobsled team from the movie Cool Runnings. Pretty creative right? At least I thought it was.

These (white) students painted their skin black in order to better align themselves with the characters they were portraying.

Guess what....A group of black Canadians didn't think the costume was amusing and, in fact, deemed the costume outrageous, inappropriate and offensive. They went as far as to proclaim the costume racist and demanded the students submit a written apology for painting their faces black and imitating the actors from Cool Runnings.

Does anyone else think this takes political correctness to a new extreme?

So, apparently it's okay for girls to dress like total whores and walk around with their rear ends hanging out but it's not okay for a group of students to imitate movie characters?

Apparently it's okay for people to walk around in costumes portraying Jesus Christ and George Bush as horrible people, but it's not okay to paint your face black and give yourself dreadlocks?

Apparently it was okay for a black student to dress up like John Candy and go to the party as the "bobsledders" coach....yes that's right....The group of students had a black friend that even went along with the costume and dressed up as the team's white coach just to fill out the group costume idea.

Needless to say, the group of college students were in the spotlight and have since completed a formal written apology to the coalition of black students at U of T. I hope one of them has the balls to dress up like the Trinidad and Tobago ice hockey team from Mighty Ducks 2 next year.