Controversial Ray Rice Costume Circulating On Social Media
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Famous Women Who Underwent Double MastectomiesBALTIMORE (WJZ) — Offensive, racist, sexist. Those are just some of the words used to describe a costume that is circulating on social media of people dressed up as Ray Rice in black face, dragging an African-American doll with a black eye on the ground.
Rochelle Ritchie has reaction from Ravens fans and domestic violence advocates who call the Halloween joke disgusting.
Advocates say there is nothing scarier than people making fun of women being beaten and dragged on the ground.
It’s a costume you won’t find on store shelves, but is still becoming quite popular on the web–people dressed in black face pretending to be Ray Rice and dragging a black female doll behind them.
“It’s a horrible stigma as horrible as a situation as it is it should have never happened and people find it humorous and I don’t understand why.”
Photos posted on Facebook and Instagram show men in Rice’s jersey, some in black face, with hold chains and an Afro clutching a doll’s leg. Others are pretending to hit the women standing next to them, who have fake black eyes.
“And she stupid for being in that picture.”
Like many, Sandi Timmins with House of Ruth is appalled.
“The images are horrifying. This issue of violence against women is not a joke. It’s nothing to poke fun at and it sends all the wrong messages and it says it’s cute,” said Timmins.
The costumes seem to depict the night Ray Rice was caught on camera punching his then-fiancee in the face at the Revel Casino and then dragging her body out of the elevator.
It’s not just adults who are dressing up in this offensive costume. Parents are actually dressing up their children in Ray Rice jerseys and dragging dolls behind them. Some parents say what happened to the simple days of dressing up as something like Spiderman?
A photo also posted on social media shows a child clutching a doll with a black eye.
“It’s really distasteful. I don’t know. It’s not right.”
The Ray Rice controversy sparked the NFL to raise awareness to domestic violence through a series of commercials encouraging people to speak up. Advocates say these photos show just how insensitive people are to the issue of domestic violence.
“That kind of attitude from that community is the very reason so many women don’t come forward,” Timmins said.
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