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(ethics, politics, design)
Steve McFarland is a divinity student in social ethics in New York City. Community is his journal of ethics, politics, and design. It's a place to play around with the intersections of these topics in the urban context, and to store other bits and bobbles.

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  • October 19, 2009 8:15 pm
    Halloween is always an occasion to perpetrate some racist shit, and this year American Apparel seems to be quick out of the gates with some fabulous costume ideas. For a company known for its misogyny, I still have to say I’m a bit aghast. Really the brown girl as the “warrioress” for a made-up tribe? Black devils? Does this not raise any red flags anywhere between dressing, shooting, editing, and posting? No one? Anyone?
Didn’t think so. I won’t even get into the interracial “hip-hop couple,” whose costumes so accurately send up a community that shops at American Apparel.
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    Halloween is always an occasion to perpetrate some racist shit, and this year American Apparel seems to be quick out of the gates with some fabulous costume ideas. For a company known for its misogyny, I still have to say I’m a bit aghast. Really the brown girl as the “warrioress” for a made-up tribe? Black devils? Does this not raise any red flags anywhere between dressing, shooting, editing, and posting? No one? Anyone?

    Didn’t think so. I won’t even get into the interracial “hip-hop couple,” whose costumes so accurately send up a community that shops at American Apparel.