I knew it was coming. Charcoal face masks are racist…

A few weeks ago, I was reading an opinion piece written by a black man about a photo hanging in a restaurant in Arizona.

It was an old photograph of coal miners enjoying some drinks after work. The coal miners were covered from head to toe in black coal dust.

The author of the article admits that he knew these were coal miners, and their “black-face” was unintentional. He knew that the photograph of coal miners had absolutely nothing to do with racism.

And yet he still wanted the restaurant to take the picture down because it made him think of black-face. Apparently, coal mining history has to be revised or it is offensive.

I kind of chuckled to myself, next thing you know charcoal face-masks will be racist…