The incoming crunch to find the perfect Halloween costume ramps up this week as we get closer to the great day of begging for candy from strangers and drinking to excess. Perhaps the greatest challenge, for some, is threading the needle between hilarity while ensuring you can remain employable if a photo gets out on the internet of said costume.
University of Toronto history student Chris Kolumbus IV is a young man that is proud of his newfound appreciation for the sensitivity of diverse cultures and ethnic groups, and Kolumbus announced that he would be dressing as an “Indigenous” Chief this Halloween. In an exclusive interview with The Boundary this week, Kolumbus told us, “It is of critical importance that we treat diverse peoples with the respect they are rightfully owed. It is terribly offensive to describe Canada’s first peoples as ‘Indian’ and I intend to alert everyone that my costume is about a chief who is correctly described as Indigenous.”
When pressed further, Kolumbus said that he chose to go as an Indigenous Chief because “the feather hat was more flattering than my other ideas.” Kolumbus ultimately came to the decision to go as a Chief after tomahawking other possible options, including Latinx Agricultural Worker, Inner-city Person of Colour Musician, and Bearded Man from Afghanistan.
The Boundary does not support cultural appropriation in costumes, regardless of what name they’re calling it. Happy Halloween, stick to ghosts and witches.
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