No, a black jack-o’-lantern isn’t blackface

Published October 23, 2019 6:52pm ET



Of all the reasons to be offended by Halloween — schools that scrap their celebrations for fear of wounding political correctness, people who hate on candy corn — you’d think jack-o’-lanterns would be pretty far down the list.

Alas, employees at a New York law firm removed some black pumpkins from its doorstep this week after a complaint that the dark pumpkins with white features were racially insensitive. More significantly, Bed Bath and Beyond followed suit by pulling the pumpkins from its shelves, according to News 12.

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