A video of the Boston Sephora store has gone viral across numerous social media platforms featuring a group of female teenagers wearing blackface inside the store. Youngsters were accompanied by a chaperone, whose identity has been debunked online. The Boston Sephora store has also released a “statement condemning the incident.”
For those unaware, according to Wikipedia Blackface means, “the practice of non-black performers using burnt cork or theatrical makeup to portray a caricature of black people on stage or in entertainment.”
As per media reports, a University of South California student, Temi Ojora shared a video in her now-private TikTok account where young girls could be spotted doing blackface. She captioned her post as, “genuinely so disgust[ing] and disturb[ing].”
In the video uploaded on TikTok, which went viral later, a girl could be seen wearing dark makeup. She looked exactly like wearing a mask on her face. In the background, a sound could be heard of a staffer, who said,
“This is the stuff that ruins jobs, college acceptances, let alone how incredibly offensive this is.”
In the video, girls’ chaperones could also be spotted. The Chaperon could also be seen strolling away from the camera.
According to reports, one of the girls from the group along with the chaperone confronted Temi Ojora and asked her to delete the video from TikTok. However, the Tiktok video spreads to multiple social media platforms online amassing multi-million views. Several netizens also tried to identify the chaperone online. Surprisingly they succeeded and found out that the Chaperone was a Guatemala City resident, named Margarita Botto.
The Chaperone, Margarita Botto’s Details Revealed
TikTok user @thatdaneshguy revealed that Margarita Botto is one of the teenagers’ mothers hailing from Guatemala City. The user also revealed that Margarita works as a molecular biologist. No information about Botto could be extracted from her Facebook account as well. However, Margarita Botto has not responded to this incident yet, at the time of writing this article.
Boston Sephora Store Releases Statement
The Sephora makeup outlet in Boston released a statement that read,
“We are extremely disappointed by the behavior of these shoppers at our Prudential Center location, and as such, they were asked to leave our premises. Under no circumstance is this type of behavior tolerated at Sephora.”
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