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Brooklyn Pol Apologizes for Blackface

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After dressing as a basketball player for Purim.

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Brooklyn Assemblyman Dov Hikind probably should have foreseen his use of blackface would cause outrage. The politician, an Orthodox Jew, apologized Monday for donning the makeup as part of a basketball-player costume for Purim.

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