PermagrinGirl, whom I just found by way of Clayton Cramer, gets off a zinger:
I’m still wondering, though, if it’s always ‘blackface’ to dress up as a black person, even if you’re costumed as an actual person (like Venus Williams), does this mean that we have to institute racial segregation in Halloween costumes? [ . . . ] I thought people who counseled you to ‘stick to your own kind’ were considered racist.