White 5th Grade Teacher Sorry For Kanye West Blackface Halloween Costume

[Capt. Obvious]

A white elementary school teacher in (Guess the state) apologized on Monday for wearing blackface to dress up as rap artist Kanye West for a Halloween party.

Heath Morrow, a fifth grade teacher, dressed up in blackface and posed with a "Kanye for Prez 2020" sign in a photograph published online. The real West had announced at the Video Music Awards that he would run for President in 2020.

Morrow's wife, Shannon, dressed up as the rapper's wife, Kim Kardashian, and posted the photograph to Facebook

The photograph was posted with the caption, "Haha some people thought Heath was really a black man," according to the website's report. It has since been deleted.

In his apology, Morrow said that he decided on his costume "based on celebrities and the political climate today."

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TPM

No cheating, and no locals. Guess the state.

[KamaAina]

1. Not the state you're probably thinking of.

[Alenne]

2. The good old "I don't see color" line.

I wonder why he put on all that dark make-up if he didn't see color. And why are some people still doing blackface, redface, etc Halloween costumes in 2015.

[jberryhill]

5. I believe he was attempting to look like Kanye West

[jberryhill]

3. Well, there goes my Bill Cosby idea for Halloween

The takeaway here is that no white person should be Kanye West for Halloween, and should only attempt white celebrities.

[Capt. Obvious]

12. Would Al Jolsen work for you?

[gollygee]

13. It's so difficult to have black-face eliminated as an option, isn't it?

[Aerows]

4. Every year, some idiot does this

And every year, they get told how it is inappropriate, and then some other jackass does it again the next year.

[olddots]

6. tuff guestion

we have 50 states that are an embarrassment to the galaxy .

[Juicy_Bellows]

7. Going for Florida - America's dong for the win! nt.

EDIT - damn, I guessed wrong.

[LanternWaste]

8. Hard to guess... I'll go with Vermont or Massachusetts.

Hard to guess... we have 46 states, four commonwealths and assorted territories. Yet not one of them is immune from the stupidity of under-educated people pretending one particular region is less immune to it than others.

Do we win bragging rights within the Mentally Lowest Common Denominator community should we guess correctly?

[WI_DEM]

9. Alabama

only because I heard the story already.

[NaturalHigh]

10. She doesn't look anything like Kim Kardashian.

[3catwoman3]

11. How can anyone in 2015 think that...

...blackface makeup is a good idea? Duh!