Opinion | Susanne Ramírez de Arellano: 'The magazine's toxic environment was just a small part the ongoing commoditization of Puerto Rican culture by affluent white people.' - NBCNewsTHINK
It is very hard to believe that a grown man who held a decision-making position in a prominent magazine dedicated to culture did not know or understand that brownface, let alone the rest of his costume, was wrong, whether in 2003 when he now says it was taken or 2013 when the picture went up on Instagram.
Rapoport and his wife were not simply playing Halloween dress-up; they were rich, white racists using Halloween to reinforce their personal stereotypes about poor Puerto Ricans in urban areas, of which they likely personally knew none. Their costumes were not and are not representative of the culture of Puerto Rico or its people; it only represents a privileged white person’s view of Puerto Ricans as poor and violent.
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