Monday, October 26, 2015

Fifth Grade Teacher Dons Blackface, Dresses Like Kanye West

A fifth grade teacher from Alabama named Heath Morrow has found himself in viral hot water after sharing a photo on Facebook of his 2015 Halloween costume.


It features Morrow dressed up like Kanye West, wearing a gold chain, a backward baseball cap and holding up a sign that touts Kanye’s Presidential run in 2020.



Oh, and did we mention Morrow is rocking blackface to complete his ensemble?


“Haha some people thought Heath was really a black man,” wrote Heath’s wife, Shannon, as a caption to the picture.


She’s dressed up like Kim Kardashian, of course, as you can tell by the extra padding added to her rear end.


Heath is a teacher at Chestnut Grove Elementary School in Decatur and he received so much backlash for this costume that Shannon took the image off Facebook.


A few celebrities out there can relate to Heath, most notably Julianne Hough.


She dressed up as a character from Orange is the New Black last year, having to eventually apologize for painting her face black as part of the outfit.


The blackface on its own is offensive, of course.


But so is the mere notion of anyone wanting to be Kanye and Kim for Halloween.


Come on, people. Can’t we do better than this?!?