Nurse Shelbi Heenan, a registered nurse at Saint Luke’s hospital in Kansas City has lost her job after posting a picture of herself and her husband dressed as Jay and Beyonce with a blackface for Halloween.
She was reported by a Facebook user to the hospital and thereafter, the hospital launched an investigation before issuing a statement saying, “Saint Luke’s is deeply committed to our culture of diversity and inclusion. It is fundamental to who we are as an organization and we vigorously protect it on behalf of all our patients and employees and expect those who represent us to do the same.”
By late morning Tuesday, Heenan was no longer a Saint Luke's employee.
Blackface started as a form of theatrical makeup used predominantly by non-black performers to represent a caricature of a black person. A major objection many people have to "blackface" is that it reinforces the idea that black people are appropriate targets of ridicule and mockery.
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