Football

Pistanator

I don’t get the fuss. He’s dressed up as Harlem Globetrotter(I believe?)

Why is it racist or offensive?

Whilst the history of clowns goes back hundreds, possibly thousands of years, the 1800's depiction of black slaves and the birth of savage racial stereotypes which still stick today has meant this is still shaky ground. Dressing up doesn't necessarily equal a hate crime but when you still have white kids in the US that dress up as the murdered child Trayvon Martin for fancy dress ['cos laughing at the death of a child is a big fucking laugh] it's not hard to see why most choose to steer clear of the subject matter.

What is interesting to note in the link is how the not a single term was created by blacks including the N word...So when folk ask how come I can't say it, you can remind who created the term in the first place.