‘A Racist Idiot’: White College Student’s Blackface Diddy Costume Sparks Outrage, University Responds

It’s become predictable at this point that someone is going to take Halloween as an opportunity to dress up as something offensive or inappropriate, and that’s what a pair of white apparent college students did on Sunday, Oct. 27.In a TikTok video captioned “How the group chat dressed for Halloween,” a carousel of photos was shared showing college students in their Halloween outfits. Some of the students featured in the photo montage were dressed as Cruella de Vil and a Dalmatian, Woody and Jessie from Pixar’s “Toy Story,” and the president of the United States. However, the video became a problem for many viewers when it showed a young white student-age man donning blackface in an attempt to impersonate Sean “Diddy” Combs while the woman standing next to him was dressed as Johnson Johnson’s baby oil.The original poster of the video is a San Diego State University student who has since deleted it from the TikTok platform. However, the clip had already been shared with millions of viewers across other social media platforms. Screenshots of the video have also been captured and reposted on X. X users reacted to the blackface image, pointing out that the unidentified man clearly just...