{"id":10285,"date":"2013-09-13T09:26:55","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T09:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10285"},"modified":"2013-09-13T09:26:55","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T09:26:55","slug":"swedish-students-apologise-for-racist-blackface-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10285","title":{"rendered":"Swedish students apologise for ‘racist’ blackface incident"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Two Swedish college students have apologized for showing up to a costume party in blackface in an attempt to impersonate reggae musicians.<\/p>\n

The incident took place at a party thrown by the Lund University Technology Management student association, a group of about 80 masters students studying economics and technology, TheLocal.se reported Friday.<\/p>\n

The incident raised eyebrows, particularly at Lund after students in 2011 staged a mock slave auction that drew international condemnation as being racist.<\/p>\n

The students, whose names were not reported, said their intent was not to offend party-goers — one of whom snapped a picture and sent it to local media — but to pay tribute to reggae icon\u00a0Bob Marley.<\/p>\n

“We haven’t intentionally done something insulting or racist,” one of the students said. “But after the fact we’ve realized that painting our faces black offends some people.”<\/p>\n

The group’s president said it was “unfortunate” that some people misinterpreted the students’ painted faces as racist.<\/p>\n

“It was an innocent costume party,” Elin Wennerstroem, the group’s president said.<\/p>\n

Other in attendance weren’t as forgiving.<\/p>\n

Kalle Wigren, who lives near where the party took place, said he saw the incident and was offended.<\/p>\n

“When a white person puts black makeup on their face to look like a black person and then proceeds to make fun of the situation, it can’t be anything other than racism,” he said. – UPI.COM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two Swedish college students have apologized for showing up to a costume party in blackface in an attempt to impersonate reggae musicians. The incident took place at a party thrown by the Lund University Technology Management student association, a group of about 80 masters students studying economics and technology, TheLocal.se reported Friday. The incident raised … Continue reading “Swedish students apologise for ‘racist’ blackface incident”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,123],"tags":[5724,6156,6155,157,6154,185],"class_list":["post-10285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-blackface","tag-elin-wennerstroem","tag-lund","tag-racism","tag-students","tag-sweden"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/swede_in_blackface.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10287,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10285\/revisions\/10287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}