“The Daily Show” is here with your annual reminder that blackface is a really stupid and racist way to mark Halloween. Correspondent Roy Wood Jr. dressed as a vampire to explain how the concept of white people applying black makeup to mark the spooky occasion (even if they aren’t intending to be offensive) is still completely wrong. “Every year, somehow, there are people who put on costumes that are about 200 years too late,” he said on Thursday’s broadcast. Blackface and minstrel shows were “so problematic” because they were “rooted in a very painful past,” Wood Jr. explained.

Source: Huffington Post October 28, 2017 09:05 UTC