Halloween As a Chasid by a Black Lesbian Blogger

Ok, this is a year old, but I found it fascinating, funny and really sad. A black female lesbian blogger from AsThisBlackWoman.com, as part of her own personal “Race experiment” 1.) decided to dress for Halloween as, a Chasidic man with Jewish star bling (wow, the film Hebrew Hammer was good for something!) 

The pictures say it all…hysterical.

The remarkable and really sad part of this hysterical chasidic blogger adventure is our black lesbian's conclusion from sporting her bekesha and payos in the streets of NYC. She was honestly offended when she noticed that people weren't laughing at the racial irony of her costume but rather, “rather most people just thought Hasidic Jews were funny, even ridiculous.”   So sad.

I feel most of us when spotting the occasional Chasidic costume on the street get a real kick out of it. Last year I spotted 5 Asian guys dressed as chasidim, and honestly cursed myself for not having a camera on hand, it honestly was hysterical. . But I realize once reading this blog that while my own personal giggles upon seeing a chasidic costume on a Black lesbian come via the irony, most NYers/ and even chasidic Costumer wearers are laughing out of mockery of a Chasidic Jew in general.  

Here is the Original post, definitely worth a read, atleast the part about her friend being Gay Jesus, that's quite a due (Gay Jesus and Black Lesbian Chasid – something out of Adult soup)

Last night [Halloween] is participated in a race experiment of my own devise. Sick and tired of white people dressing as people of color in Afro wigs, Rasta dreadlocks, and Geisha outfits for Halloween, I thought of a great way to be both subversive and political while protesting “race costumes”.
It is growing increasingly common for some people to be a black person or an Asian person for Halloween. The costumes are never a black doctor or an Asian construction worker. People create their race costumes based on preconceived notions, and often racially stereotypical notions of what they believe that particular non-white racial group to be.
In an “all's fair in love and war moment”, this Halloween I wanted to dress as a white ethnic group, so I chose to be a male Hasidic Jew. I thought it would be an interesting social experiment to a.) Go dressed as a male, and b.) Go dressed as a Jew. I also think I chose to be a Hasidic Jew because it wasn't my interpretation of Jewishness that would dictate my costume, but the costume of Hasidism itself would be easy to mock. Like pretending to be Amish would be relatively easy, considering Amish people have a uniform of sorts.
I got my Hasidic costume together and I tried to be funny with certain elements. My peyis' were telephone cords and I had Jewish bling sprayed painted on my white button-up.