Ray Rice Halloween Costumes Combine Blackface, Domestic Violence Jokes
As Deadspin explained earlier this week, dressing up as NFL wife-puncher Ray Rice for Halloween is a bad idea. Worse idea? Dressing up as Ray Rice in blackface. Worst idea? Dressing up as Ray Rice in blackface and proudly posting it on the Internet.
Sunday morning, Keith Olbermann shared this picture of a couple's Ray and Janay Rice blackface costume with his over half a million Twitter followers, taken from their son's since deleted Instagram account.
If you missed this amazing racism and pro-DV bs posted to Instagram by @RitterZac (account now locked) pic.twitter.com/7ULCxhVfVC
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) October 26, 2014
Unfortunately, the pair were hardly alone in their idiocy. Olbermann's followers began sending the broadcaster additional pictures of awful Ray Rice costumes, these ones incorporating playful props like an afro wig and an actual human child.
And another one RT @mdlamaster @KeithOlbermann And we have a winner in the proud daughter sweepstakes for morons.
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) October 26, 2014
Oh great. Who's got large # for Child Services? RT @tchopstl @mdlamaster And also this one. pic.twitter.com/AkUoLTlr6l
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) October 26, 2014
A quick search of the Instagram hashtag #rayrice turns up even more terrible examples, proving the Ray Rice wife-beating costume isn't just racist and misogynistic, but also painfully unoriginal.
The above post, you'll notice, is tagged with #domesticviolenceisnotfunny #butmycostumewas. That judgement call, however, should probably go to Janay Rice, the victim in the notorious elevator video.
.@TMZ it's sad, that my suffering amuses others
— Janay Rice (@JanayRice) October 22, 2014
