In the uber-wealthy and racially white enclave of Scottsdale, corporate male hacks and wine moms without meaning in life failed in their virtue signal on a grandiose scale.
Hat tip to Thomas Lifson of American Thinker for bringing a local Arizona story national prominence.
Lifson writes via American Thinker:
Two diversity advocates in the Scottsdale, Arizona school district were so eager to find racism lurking in a (highly successful) fundraiser that’s [sic] they accused a black DJ hired for the event of wearing blackface. Evidently, the costume and/or hairstyle of the SJ at the 70s-themed event triggered them somehow to accuse Koko Hunter, second from the right in the photo below, of the sin of racial impersonation of an African American via blackface.
After seeing photographs of Kim Koko Hunter, 56, a local DJ, at the 1970s-themed celebration, Stuart Rhoden and Jill Lassen chastised the Hopi Elementary School parent-teacher association in Phoenix, Arizona. They wrote scathing letters of the complaint as they mistook him for a white man, the Daily Mail noted.
Rhoden, who is also black, serves on the school district’s equity and inclusion committee, which is co-chaired by Lassen, who is white.
On Saturday, April 9, they believed he’d painted his skin brown to mock Black people — through the racist practice of black facing. Rhoden together with Lassen contacted the school’s principal and the head of the PTA to complain, however, the PTA president’s email quickly clarified that Hunter is actually a black man in response to their complaints.
The PTA president responded:
“I would like to set the record straight. The **** PTA hired a black man to be our DJ. Please share with me how this is culturally unaware? I know no apology will undo this image, so I will not be offering one.”
After being informed about the truth the two then took to social media to explain:
Rhoden said, ‘Let me be clear, a Black man, apparently in Black face is an entirely different discussion than a White person. However I did not state that the person was White.
It was assumed that was my intent, and perhaps it was, but nonetheless, looking on his FB page…it seems at the very least he is in darker make-up if not “Black face” or I am completely mistaken and it’s the lighting of the patio,’
‘So here’s what I want to say. I apologize to dude for the implication, but the sentiment still stands, Black face by anyone, in this day and age is problematic. I also apologize to folks who reposted and made other statements based on my assumption.’
Hunter, the Dj who was accused of wearing “blackface,” said he never did.
Hunter, a Carnegie Foundation award winner for having the best teen program in the country and a former Harlem Globetrotters vice president discussed the controversy on the Conservative Circus podcast with James T. Harris.
Hunter said, “Have I ever done the minstrel show blackface? Absolutely not.”
The DJ explained that his boss Ryan Ingram told him a group of people was saying he was in blackface and he was afraid it might become a problem for the company. When he read Rhoden’s apology he was taken aback, exclaiming, “Whoa! ”
“I would like to see it through their lens,” he said to the host. “How did they come to their assumption and why did you come to that assumption? In my opinion, it is quite obvious what the image actually was.”
Hunter said he’s concerned about the long-term effect this will have on his career.
“I don’t know what’s going to come of this. My picture is there. My name is there,” he concluded. “We don’t know how people are going to digest what happened.”
Sources: Trendingpolitics, Americanthinker, Dailymail
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