There are encouraging signs this summer's energy crisis, and the threat of blackouts, may not be as bad as first thought. KSRO's Mike DeWald tells us why.
There have been many blackface controversies in Colorado over the years, and many have the common theme of tone-deafness. In 2011, for instance, the University of Colorado Boulder had to grapple with the tradition of Black Outs, during which fans at football games dressed in that particular school color which became a problem when some of the most enthusiastic Caucasian boosters daubed that hue on their face, too.
Cut to 2012, when an uproar followed Colorado Springs second-grader Sean King s decision to dress up as Martin Luther King for a school project, complete with darkened skin color. The younger King intended the costume to be a tribute, but plenty of people didn t take it that way.