Lucas is our watermelon: Fox & Friends dresses up black child as watermelon for Halloween segment

[kpete]

During a Halloween costume segment, President Donald Trump’s favorite morning program showed off some ideas for this year’s Halloween holiday.

And while white children were dressed as robots and rainbows, one black child was forced to wear a costume that some might consider to be racially insensitive.

“Now we’re going to have some organic fruit,” the presenter announced. “Lucas is our watermelon!”

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/lucas-is-our-watermelon-fox-friends-dresses-up-black-child-as-watermelon-for-halloween-segment/

[jberryhill]

1. Who picked the costumes?

[EarthFirst]

2. The dog whistles are getting louder and louder... nt

[highplainsdem]

3. This was on purpose. 12 days ago Fox did this story on watermelons as racially insensitive:

http://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/2017/10/10/fireman-fired-over-racially-insensitive-watermelon.html

So now they put Lucas in that costume to please the deplorables and provoke reactions from everyone else.

[dalton99a]

6. Precisely.

[czarjak]

4. Totally...

Not racist though, because racism is dead.

[dalton99a]

5. It's not racist - because there is no fried chicken

[snort]

7. Shhh

You'll give away Carson's costume this year.

[dalton99a]

9. +1

[gordianot]

8. I hope when that child realizes what was done to him.

It does not cause lasting pain. I would blame the parents first, what were they thinking?

[samnsara]

10. i just think someone wasnt using their head..

[Drahthaardogs]

11. Lucas looks Hispanic to me.

And I grew up in the Southwest.

I am italian and I am at least as dark as Lucas.

[ProudLib72]

12. MSNBC can do a costume segment

Dress the white kid with blonde hair and blue eyes as a snowflake.

No, I'm not really advocating we stoop as low and repeat this reprehensible behavior.