Blackface and terrorist costumes condemnedMaarten Holl Race Relations Commissioner Dame Susan Devoy said the costumes were "deeply offensive". Race Relations Commissioner Dame Susan Devoy has condemned a series of images of Manawatu-based party-goers dressed in blackface and depicting blood-streaked terrorists. Among them is a smiling woman with a moko and blackface makeup, a man wearing a bloody terrorist costume, and a man dressed as a terrorist in a truck in a reference to the Nice terrorist attacks, appearing to run into a blood-spattered person holding a baguette. Manawatu Multicultural Council president Meriam Findlay said she found the costumes offensive, and worried the culturally offensive jokes could be shameful to Palmerston North. Manawatu Muslims' Association president Zulfiqar Butt said MUVSA should not have let students wear the costumes.

Source: Stuff August 29, 2016 07:52 UTC