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Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Party City orders Virginia store to pull Confederate soldier kids’ Halloween costumes

Costume and party supplies store Party City ordered one of its franchises to pull a kids’ Confederate soldier costume from its shelves after facing backlash about the outfit being racist.

Caroline Brasler, who is the adoptive mother to two young black daughters, said she came across the Civil War costumes emblazoned with the Confederate flag while shopping Sunday at the location in Crossroads, Virginia, news station WUSA reported.

“The Confederate flag to me is a symbol of racism. To have that out there for a child to wear on Halloween sends so many horrible messages,” she told the outlet.

One of the costumes was labeled “Confederate Officer” and came with a Confederate flag on the hat, while the other was supposed to be Confederate General Robert E. Lee, the outlet reported.

Brasler said that after seeing the costumes there, she decided to take her daughters elsewhere to buy their Halloween gear.

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11 comments:

Anonymous said...

Venezuela 🇻🇪

Anonymous said...

My gosh, I’m glad they got that despicable outfit off the floor. How many “keds” would have been frightened or worse, the hell scared outta ‘em. Thank goodness it was caught before thousands would have been offended. We should be thankful to have such caring citizens (dummies).

Anonymous said...

The communist s will never erase our history

Anonymous said...

well isn't Caroline Brasler special.

JW said...

Well, the civil war never happened anyway. Nod your heads in submission.

Anonymous said...

Skull and Bones (Death’s Head) is OK
Confederate Soldier - not so much

Anonymous said...

get woke and go broke, we must boycott everyone of these stupid companies....not 1 red cent!

TheRealRay said...

what about the ghetto hood rat outfit with the grillz and bling that offends me?

Anonymous said...

Let’s take Dumbocrats stance......burn it down if they pull the product.......oh wait it must be racist if it didn’t come from the Dumbocrats!!!!

Anonymous said...

I'm sure the 1st responder outfits will be next.

SMH!

Anonymous said...

Well 3:26 pm, it looks like it’s being done because fat lazy idiotic morons like you are allowing it to happen right in front of our eyes. You are one dumb MF’er!