Is Cultural Appropriation Just One More Way for Whites to Segregate People of Color?
It’s that time of year again, time for scary movies, trick-or-treating, fun Halloween parties, and getting dressed up in costume. The time of year, however, that we’re all starting to dread for obvious reasons. Halloween used to be fun, I loved dressing my kids up every year, I created most of their costumes because, in all honesty, I was too poor to actually buy them one. Now they’re older, and I believe last year they decided that would be their last year to dress up and trick-or-treat, which sucks, but I get it. Too many adults ruined it for them last year by saying, “aren’t you a little old for this?” Why? Why can’t kids of all ages go trick-or-treating and get free candy? Now that the grown-ups have ruined trick-or-treating for the teens and pre-teens, who I would frankly rather have them out trick-or-treating than going to parties getting drunk, or high, now they want to ruin it for the little ones too. “No sweetie, you can’t go as Mulan because you’re white/b...