Montreal business school in hot water after white students don black face-paint

The students were supposed to dress up like Jamaicans—and so they took this route, which included chanting, ‘Smoke more weed.’ Classy.

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CBC reports that the event, organized by the sports and leisure committee at the university’s Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC) business school, was part of its annual athletic week.

From CBC:

“The theme of this year’s event was the Olympic Games and groups of first year students were each assigned a costume based on the first letter of their group … The group in question was assigned track and field.”

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