College students slammed Diddy’s Halloween costume with blackface and baby oil

Two white ones students over the weekend sparked social media ire for their Halloween costume choices. According to Daily mailA video was originally posted to TikTok on Sunday showing a man and a woman in costumes imitating beaten music executive Sean “Diddy” Combs.

The video shows a white student wearing the uniform black facered bow tie, black jacket and white trousers. On the other hand, the white student is wearing a pink sweater with the words “Johnson’s Baby” printed on what looks like a piece of paper and attached to her chest. She was also seen holding what appears to be baby oil.

The video, posted with the caption “What Group Chat Participants Were Dressed for Halloween”, later went viral before it was ultimately taken down after reaction. Despite being deleted, the video was saved and has since been circulating on social media.

The original video is said to have been posted by a student at San Diego State University California. However, according to reports, it was not the woman in the photo.

AND San Diego A State University spokesman said Daily mail that they are “deeply concerned about the actions outlined and understand the seriousness of the impact it may have on others.”

“Our team is working to confirm the information, provide the location and the names and affiliations of the people involved in the case,” the spokesman added. “We appreciate the willingness of those who came forward to share information with the university. The use of blackface and any action that makes light of sexual assault is deeply offensive and has no place in a respectful, caring community.”

The spokesperson also said that “stereotyping or attempting to harm people based on race or ethnicity and downplaying the seriousness of sexual assault are directly contrary to our shared university values.”

As previously reported Face2Face Africaauthorities claimed that “more than 1,000 bottles of baby oil and lubricant” were found at Combs’ homes in Miami and Los Angeles during a raid in connection with a federal sex trafficking investigation. Combs is accused of organizing “Freak-Offs,” described as elaborate, manufactured sexual performances that he directed, recorded and sometimes participated in.

News of large amounts of baby oil being found at Combs’ properties broke after the 54-year-old was arrested by federal agents on September 16 and accused with sex trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and transportation for the purpose of prostitution.

Combs, who pleaded guilty, is being held without bail at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. His trial date is set for May 5, 2025. However, the Bad Boy Records founder is also facing multiple sexual assault lawsuits.

Despite his legal problems, several people convicted actions of white students. “Aside from the blatant and vile blackface, this is just an incredibly lazy version of Diddy,” one person said. Daily mail.

“You can shit on Diddy without being racist. He didn’t have to do blackface and everyone would know who he was, especially with his girlfriend as baby oil,” another person said. Another critic also called for “locking a white student in the same cell as Diddy as punishment.”

The History of Blackface

According to the brief on this topic regarding BETBlackface grew out of minstrel shows beginning in the 1830s. The act involved white actors darkening their faces with shoe polish or grease paint, painting exaggerated red lips with makeup, and playing stereotypically stupid, stupid, or dangerous black characters – i.e. “happy gloom on the plantation” or “dandified raccoon”. The larger purpose of these shows was to entertain White slave owners who were amused by the mockery of slaves and free blacks in the 19th century.

Among the “pioneers” of the minstrel show was Thomas “Daddy” Rice, a white actor who blackened his face and danced for his Jim Crow character in 1830.

From the small stage, blackface found its way to the big screen, where some performers like it Bert Williams, Al Jolson, AND Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll, who created ““Amos N’Andy” made it very popular. These white men also performed in “dialect” or “African American English”.

Minstrelsy reached its peak between 1830 and 1890. Even in the late 19th century, when black artists were finally allowed to perform in public, they had to wear black face regardless of their color and had to recreate the stereotypes of the time (some found a way to subvert this).

Blackface only went out of fashion during Civil Rights Movement from the 1960s. But by then it had spread around the world, especially in many Asian and European countries, where actors still put on a face to perform.

In the US, wearing blackface is almost sacrilege. It meets with great criticism because it refers to the painful past of slavery, segregation – Jim Crowand discrimination against black people. It reinforces stereotypes about black people that are not true.

These are especially white college students in the US warned not to wear blackface on occasions such as Halloween, entertainment for many.