Aussie school under fire for photos of students in blackface, Hitler costume
Aussie school under fire for photos of students in blackface, Hitler costume
A school in a small town in Australia was forced to apologize this week after sharing photos of students dressed in blackface and as Adolf Hitler.
The photos, which were published on Rowena Public School’s Facebook page, included one of the principal smiling next to a student wearing blackface as African-American track star Jesse Owens, a gold medalist at the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany.
Another photo showed the student in the Jesse Owens costume alongside two other students, one of whom was dressed as Hitler.