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Guest Column: Blackface shows racial intolerance

By Jabre Washington | November 16, 2015

Recently I came across a degrading, insensitive and highly racist image of what appears to be an NIU student. This young white woman had a blackface on and noted the context of the photo as “Once you go black you never go back.” She sent this photo...