The lady in blackface is a law professor dressed for Halloween as a doctor she admires for his overcoming struggles in medical school that read remarkably similar to what you claim to have experienced years ago as an undergraduate at the UO. A lady unwittingly risking her white privilege to take up his cause and perhaps yours. A lady whose career and reputation now hang in the balance, all because of that stuff called makeup.

Had she used the very same makeup to dress as a rabid Oakland Raiders fan or a West Virginia coal miner, no one would have blinked. Instead, she was ambushed in her own home over context and a too-ripe opportunity to inflict harm anonymously.

That should concern everyone. Including you.