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A blackface Halloween costume has left one Long Island teen with a lot of egg on his face.

Commack High School senior Dean Jeziorkowski was ordered to leave school Friday after he turned up dressed as the black Aunt Jemima character.

Jeziorkowski, 17, refused to back down over the brouhaha, and his family refused to comment yesterday.

Fellow student Danny Cuevas, 16, who was out trick-or-treating in Jeziorkowski’s neighborhood, defended the teen.

“I don’t think it’s that racist,” he said. “At one point in time, that might have been seen as racist but not now.”

Jeziorskowski told pals he has dressed as a woman for Halloween every year since the third grade. The teen donned a bandanna and wig as part of his Aunt Jemima getup. He darted in and out of classrooms toting a syrup bottle, asking, “You want some pancakes?”

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Dark_Zero/ Dark_Zero

    Sorry Danny, but it is racist to the people that feels that it is racist. Your friend Dean should picked another costume which there are 1000s by the way, instead of selecting one that demeans and disrespects African Americans. Danny you apprently do not and have not read African American history or your friend Dean, then you would have known that you shouldn’t go around painting your faces like that. It makes me laugh when certain ethic groups can tell blacks what is racist and what isn’t.

    Good for Dean regardless weather he knew or didn’t, his dumbass parents should have stopped him and made him change his costume, that’s why I don’t feel sorry for Dean.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Jack_Stephen1/ Jack_Stephen1

    wht folks do sh it just to make the news by tryin to pass it as “freedom of expression” why ae they always the ones with these problems?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/WestsideCartelAtl85/ WestsideCartelAtl85

    That White kid knew what he was doing. He’s just showing his true colors that’s all.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/nattyredds/ nattyredds

    COMMACK, LONG ISLAND IN NEW YORK HUH

    THATS THE SAME PLACE AND TOWN WHERE THAT

    BLACK MAN SHOT DA WHITE KID FOR COMING TO THE BLACK MAN HOUSE AND THREATENING THE BLACK MAN SON FROM A PARTY IN ANOTHER AREA…WELL THE START OF THAT WHOLE ORDEAL FROM WHAT I CAN REMEMBER IS THE PARTY WAS IN COMMACK AND THEN THE BLACK KID WENT HOME TO HIS HOUSE AND WAS FOLLOWED BY THE WHITE KIDS WHO WERE ACTING AS A GANG AND A RACIST ONE AT THAT………

    NOW THEY HAVE A WHITE STUDENT RUNNING AROUND LIKE HE GOT NO FUC.KING SENSE IN BLACKFACE ACTIN LIKE AUNT JEMIMA

    WHERE ARE ALL THE GANGBANGERS THAT BE REPPIN THAT HOOD AT…THEY SHOULD BE THE ONES TO TEACH THIS WHITE KID A LESSON

    CUT HIS FACE UP WITH A RAZOR AND SEND HIM HOME WITH 1,000 STITCHES IN HIS FACE AND I BET HE WONT MAKE FUN OF ANYONE EVER AGAIN

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/TheBIgBlackNewsBlog/ TheBIgBlackNewsBlog

    As long as we keep taking it, they’ll keep dishing it. Black people are too passive. We need to stop grinning in white people’s face.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/TheBIgBlackNewsBlog/ TheBIgBlackNewsBlog

    I am I the only person who noticed this article was pretty much copied, word for word, from nydailynews.com? Yet, the authors of this story were not given credit.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/lakerdude19/ lakerdude19

    Blgblack, it cites the source at the beginning of the article, I think that’s all that is needed for a valid reference.

    Good idea nattyredds! Cutting his face up definitely wouldn’t be stooping down to his level…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/nattyredds/ nattyredds

    @@@@……..LAKER BOY 19

    DID YOU READ WHAT I WROTE

    IT SAY WHERE ARE THE “GANGBANGERS FROM THAT HOOD” THEY SHOULD CUT HIS AZZ UP

    THEY MEANING THE GANGBANGERS

    AND ANOTHER THING MAYBE WE BLACK PEOPLE SHOULD START STOOPING DOWN TO THEIR LEVEL CUZ LORD KNOWS WE HAVE TRIED THE PROPER APPROACH TO BE KILLED BY OUR OWN POLICE FORCE

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/G-WIN/ G-WIN

    WHERE ARE ALL THE GANGBANGERS THAT BE REPPIN THAT HOOD AT…THEY SHOULD BE THE ONES TO TEACH THIS WHITE KID A LESSON<<<<< no answer to that with
    violence but it will be gandbanger be racist to those white boys in the hood

    no love in those mean streets

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/BlackBarbieMn/ BlackBarbieMn

    I think the single thing that makes things like this racist is painting the skin black. Usually black LITERALLY, when non whites portray white characters we don’t paint our skin white! He could have been her minus black face and people will still known who he was. First the Dallas cheerleader, then this smdh….I mean white people are simply stupid to think no one will know who they are unless the paint themselves black…I think white folks that do stuff like this just want to be black and want to see themselves in COLOR! Being black is STILL THE ISH! Let the church say AMEN!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Sexy_Poppie/ Sexy_Poppie

    you know i really don’t think it was anything wrong with him dressing up like aunt jemima it was halloween everyone needs to get alife a few years ago my grandson painted his self white and went to school as chuck taylor from the dave chapelle show no one made a big thing out of it but when a white kid do it its all bent out of shape get over it everything white people do isn’t racist a kid havn’t fun on halloween i would have laugh my ass off and took picture’s

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/TheBIgBlackNewsBlog/ TheBIgBlackNewsBlog

    lakerdude19, it also says this story/article is (by) Casey Gane-McCalla. When in fact, this story was written by Katie Nelson and Tanyanika Samuels. So, what is the word “by” in reference to? Cutting and pasting?! LMAO!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/2daTopnonStop/ 2daTopnonStop

    So what~ get mad at the pancake bottle and while you are at it Uncle Ben’s a.ss also~

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/autiemomma/ autiemomma

    What is the big deal? I’m sure he didn’t mean any disrespect. He was just having fun. Kind of like you dressing up like Tupac. You’re not disrespecting Tupac by putting bandannas on & etc. You’re just trying to dress up & have fun. If the kid put a KKK outfit on…that’d be a totally different story. That would NOT be funny. There’s a difference. … Read MoreWhat about the movie white chicks? There was no outrage over that. It’s all for fun. DUH!!! Not everyone is racist. Some people try to find a big deal in everything. It’s a damn shame.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/trisha_369/ trisha_369

    KMLA THIS ONE. ;)

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/lakerdude19/ lakerdude19

    Aish, you’re right blgblack, I didn’t notice that. That is pretty pathetic lol

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/carlesious/ carlesious

    If Aunt Jemima is so demeaning to the black race, then why aren’t the people that feel that way upset about the fact that the product is still on store shelves?
    I’m not sticking up for this kid because I don’t know him or what his intentions where, but we as black people can’t or shouldn’t look at everything as being racist. And sadly, I know alot of black people that are racist too, but we tend to ignore or accept that. How you gonna point the finger at white people and call everything they do racist, when you have family or friends that are the same way, but you don’t say anything too them? Get rid of the double standard. Lastly, I can’t stand people that b***h and complain about trivial stuff like that, but can’t be bothered to go do important things like, going to vote.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jayslay34/ jayslay34

    This is too funny>!<

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/cestleon/ cestleon

    In this day and age that kid or at least his parents should freakin’ know better! And I’d expect a Latino to not see the insult in that. If his friend would have dressed like Juan Valdez or Speedy Gonzales I bet he wouldn’t be so passive about it! I dare him to come to my hometown and try that mess….

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/EugeneHolden/ EugeneHolden

    It must have been costume day at the school so as far as the costume it self i don’t think that was racist – it’s just a costume, but the black face was and always will be considered racist if you do it and you are not black. If the school asked him to take the costume off and he refused, then they were right in kicking him out for that day.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Vertigo2001/ Vertigo2001

    Oh thats hilarious….lol. I don’t think his intentions were to offend people … Now if he would’ve dressed up as a KKK supremacist,skinhead, or Hitler ( people who promote Racism)….now thats a different story.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Jae_Black/ Jae_Black

    LMAO my dude Tyler did that in f**king high school that s**t is priceless haha, they always want to throw the race card kids of today don’t really care about race s**t I just graduated this year and we all black and white was cool if someone did that they was laughed at that s**t was meant to be funny ITS JUST A F**KING COSTUME. If I paint my face white and say im a mime or Brad Pitt is that racist NO NIGGA ITS A COSTUME!!!!!!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DARKHEARTPHENIX/ DARKHEARTPHENIX

    IT MAY HAVE NOT BEEN MEANT TO BE RACIST BUT IT WAS. HE COULD HAVE DRESSED UP AS MRS. BUTTERWORTH,WHY AUNT JAMIMA? A FEW OF YOU SAID THAT IT WASN’T RACIST, WOULD YOU RECONIZE RACISM EVEN IF IT WAS AIMED DIRECTLY AT YOU? YOUR SO HAPPY TO BE ABLE TO SHOP AND EAT WHERE WHITE PEOPLE ARE YOU FORGET OR NEVER LEARNED ABOUT THE HISTORY AND WHERE THAT TYPE OF JOKING CAME FROM.SOME OF THE COMMENTS STATE THAT YOU JUST GOT OUT SCHOOL. YOU ARE THE ONES THAT’S UNEDUCATED AND THINKING THAT ALL IS FAIR RACIALLY. I’M SURE YOU NEVER GOT TAUGHT ANYTHING CONCERNING BLACK CIVIL RIGHT HISTORY,OR YOU ARE TO LAZY TO READ A BOOK AND RESEARCH IT. HISTORY ALWAYS IN SOME FORM REPEATS IT’S SELF.WHILE YOUR LAUGHING AT THE BLACK FACE JOKE YOU MAY FIND YOUR SELF BEING ANOTHER NEW BLACK FACE JOKE.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/KOKOSOTIGHT/ KOKOSOTIGHT

    WTF? Seriously these white kids do it every Halloween and continue to think it is okay? They know better than that, it is racist and it always will be! For those of you who don’t think it’s racist. Educate yoursef, take a Black Psych class, or some other type of Sociology class that focuses on race. You will learn that you have been a vicitm of racisim far more than you thought you were. Matter of fact tak a look at the 1930′s black face skits..they’re on dvd. It was origionally white men dressing up as women and men. They were pretending to be Black…at least what they thought Black was. Black to them was, lazy, stupid, bafooons, etc….

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/SEXY-N-HEAVENLY/ SEXY-N-HEAVENLY

    THIS IS STUPID AS F**K…SO, WHEN BLACK FOLKS PAINT THEIR FACE WHITE TO PORTRAY DRACULA FOR HALLOWEEN IS THAT CONSIDERED RACIST?….OR HOW BOUT WHEN THEY WEAR A MICHAEL MYERS MASK WHEN IN REAL THEIR SKIN IS NOT WHITE…..

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/pantherg08/ pantherg08

    THATS NOT RACIST THATS JUST FUNNY!!!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Lostking7/ Lostking7

    pantherg08 is a mf slave!!! That BS is racist!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Sub-Negro/ Sub-Negro

    Wait when black comedians dress up as white people it’s funny but when white people dress up as black people it’s racist? WTF double standard FTL! And while i’m at it why don’t ya’ll start protesting Quaker Oats who owns the Aunt Jemima trademark.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/mssexyred407/ mssexyred407

    am i the onlii person who saw whicte chicks?!?! thats okay but this is not? ya’ll killin me with the double standard

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/nicholas4961/ nicholas4961

    Looks like 2 me he seems 2 b gay(he is been dressing up as a woman since the 3rd grade 4 Halloween)and does not know better,even through he 2 some degree has 2 had a idea that this is offensive 2 Blacks yet I have 2 say him running in and out of class yelling who wants pancakes is funny as hell.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DACHOSENONE4LIFE/ DACHOSENONE4LIFE

    Sub Negro you hit that one dead on the head.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ladyiska/ ladyiska

    idk wat it was about im not sure wat i think?? kinda. cuz white male dressed as blk woman of panckas box is just not cute or funny at all it can be a bit offensive. i would think the same if a blk male dressed up as just some old white woman so he can make fun of it all night its not funny its not a healthy costume im a parent and race aside i would not let my son offend or be offensive by dressin like a fool just to make halloween fun NO. have some morals ppl

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CaliFemme23/ CaliFemme23

    I dont think what the boy did was all that serious….True i dont think its funny, but i’ve never given credit to white folks for being ‘in touch’ with anything either. What he did could offend some, but again, he is JUST a white person…why am I NOT surprised…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/cestleon/ cestleon

    How can y’all compare facepaint (which still leaves portions of the face uncovered) and a Michael Myers mask to the mockery (and that’s where the roots lie) of blackface? I just don’t get these youngsters. Is it going to take a group of Nazi Hammerskins performing a curb stomp on your skull for you to realize that sh!te ain’t that sweet? Yeah, I saw “White Chicks” it sucked! I saw “Tropic Thunder” it swallowed…..guess which one got an award nomination although they were both comedies?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/SlowRida855/ SlowRida855

    It’s really not that dificult to understand why so many Blacks are confused when confronted with issues of racism. The battle lines are not as defined as they once were. I suppose one could call that progress, but nonetheless, it doesn’t address the issue of whether racism still exists in it’s radical forms today. Now if you are one of those Blacks who would answer, ‘you don’t know, maybe so or if your answer is no I would simply say you are among the many who are confused.

    Today most of what young people do are a direct result of what many of them have seen from the adults they grew up around. Considering the ages of those sporting Black face, I would simply tell you the seed has already been planted it just a matter of how and when the racist endocrination would manifest itself. When you see Blacks take part in such activity I will wager somewhere in the family tree there have been self-hating Blacks who didn’t mind what message they sent to the young around them and thus the message was passed on. You want resolution to our (Black men and women in America) problems, make healing of the Black family a priority. Encourage each other to put down the hatchet, forgive one another if only for the sake of the children. If not we won’t have to wait to see what the future for our people will be like. We are witnessing it today. Just my thoughts.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/detroitlv/ detroitlv

    what the wyans brothers did was do what all black comedians do try to make us as black people laugh and try to do it before the white man does it. not saying the white man didn’t come up with the idea,about white chicks we will never know? but what that young man did was sick and outrages, i am a mother of mix children and i would not even let my children do s**t like that and they have seen both worlds. and for you guys to think that, it’s funny have to go back to school or even go to a black college and read what our people had to go through. there was not even an syurp lady that is how or grandma, dressed in those days as slaves, to take care of white peoples kids so get it right it is not funny and will never be funny to ME.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/mZbOsS09/ mZbOsS09

    This is not racist, this is just a kid who is having fun.Us African Americans can’t always point out stupid s**t like this racist. So when Dave Chapelle or the Waynes brothers dress up as white people it is not a big deal. There was one person in our school who dressed up as Micheal Jackson with the baby blanket in hand and all, he even put the baby over the balcony. I had to admit it was funny as hell.

    Just like a another year in our school we had a kid who dressed,as Osama Bin Laden. Halloween is all about getting creative and thinking out of the box. I really don’t think that this kid didn’t mean to offend anyone. Please some people just need to get over this nonsense and comment on something else important.Please people let’s not be so stuck up!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/TRUTH0HURTS/ TRUTH0HURTS

    So let me get this straight. Danny Cuevas said “I don’t think it is THAT racist. At one point in time, that might have been seen as racist but not now.” So I guess the 16 year old Danny Cuevas is an authority on what is racist to black people huh? Seems to me that the interviewer should have been asking a 16 year old black child whether or not he/she was offended instead of an hispanic. I knew a guy with the last name Cuevas when I was growing up and he wasn’t black and I doubt this one is either. I’ll bet if Jeziorkowski dressed up as a derogatory hispanic/latino stereotype Danny Cuevas wouldn’t be saying anything. It’s always comical and absurd to me when non-black people tell actual black people what should and should not be offensive to black people. As if they understand anything that black people have experienced or gone through and are STILL going through in this country. I’m glad he was kicked out of school and his parents should be ashamed for raising such a dumb, racist child.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Philly_Nice_Guy/ Philly_Nice_Guy

    1) No, it’s still pretty damn offensive, Danny. And as a minority (I assume) the fact that you don’t think it is…is almost as disturbing.

    2) To all the people who say that there is a double standard when blacks dress up as white, you’re 100% correct…the practice should be stopped by all.

    3) Somebody has to ask this…why is a 16 year old still trick-or-treating??

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/willylandis/ willylandis

    first of why must we see aunt jemima as a black women. she is a character. a advertising device. it was a syrup joke

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DecemberVA/ DecemberVA

    It’s racist to the highest level there are many african/americans he could have dressed like. So whom ever that has taking this behavior of the young man lightly needs to aware and informed at once we have come to far to be treated and made fun of .If one hasnt noticed there is a black family in the WHITE HOUSE .We no longer come in the back door we RUN the WORLD . So please get over it cause there is not going to be a change in the staus of the african/american race. But better and greater and richer …..

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/bizbabe/ bizbabe

    Oh shucks! Who gives a ding dang?

    It ain’t all dat! Find something else to talk/write about.

    This ain’t all dat serious.

    Maybe next year we should dress up as the Bonanza boys or Bush or even Nixon. Would that be racist?

    No. It would be simply mimicking people some perceive as dumb dweebs.

    How about dressing up like idiots with our butts hanging out where you see our underwear or butt cracks while wearing a belt around our thighs. Then top it off with gold teeth, a do-rag, and be sure not to tie our shoes.

    That in itself is the most ridiculous costume I can think of and our ‘people’ wear that costume every single day.

    What dweebs!

    So stop screaming racism blah blah blah. If someone white mimicked Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, George Washington, Charles Drew in surgeon’s garb, etc., would that be considered racist? ABSOLUTELY NOYT!

    But when some unknown white person mimics some of the insanity we perpetuate then we want to scream bloody murder.

    At the end of the day, why is it so important to even give a freakin’ hoot? Your cries lends credibility to that junk. But shucks! Stop acting and looking like clowns and no one would poke fun at it!

    This goes for everyone!

    p.s. I wonder if I dressed up as a Hindu would they take offense?

    God Bless
    Faith Sloan
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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/STAYENCOURAGED/ STAYENCOURAGED

    That is as stupid as a Black
    student dressed in a KKK costume going from room to room with a hangman’s rope asking,”wanna Hang OUT?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/texasGurl22/ texasGurl22

    Its Sad that People Look at this and Don’t get mad about it. It may just be something off the T.V. But She’s Black, and he ain’t. I wonder If an African American Dressed Up As Glen Beck, or Cesar Chavez Or Some Other Well Know Hispanic Would That Be Fun Too? And Why at 16 Is He Still Tricker Treating? He Dam Near Grown, His Parents Never Taught him anything because if they did he would be out running around with lil kids.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/alanidmc/ alanidmc

    Slap the kid and move on.

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