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This is not about being overly sensitive. Yes, you can say whatever you want and it's constitutionally protected. But maybe you all know, or don't know, that when you agree to attend a particular institution that you agree to certain things when you sign the application. If the university says what you have done is above and beyond what they consider to be acceptable then you can and will be dismissed.
And just for the record, blackface is NOT just an act of stupidity. ANYONE remotely familiar with the times in which this was done would know that to perpetuate that now, in ANY shape or form, is not only offensive but SHOULD require some action on the part of your governing body. You DO NOT have to paint yourself Black to emulate an African American. There are no ways to justify this (ie the best jazz musicians of the time were Black so it was just a representation of the time) and if you are trying to do so I'd like to have a really good makeup artist paint you Black for a week or so and let you experience some of the straight out hatred people inflict on you just because you are a minority. It's insulting at BEST to say I was only trying to imitate xyz by temporarily painting yourself another color. It's not funny, it's not cool and at the end of the day if you think it is you need to take a look at yourself.
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