The PC Police take on Halloween

And they don't want you to dress up as any other race for Halloween. Read the article below and then continue if you wish...it's not a fun subject.
http://www.thegrio.com/news/ohio-university-students-blast-racist-halloween-costumes.php

First of all...I get it. The costumes are in bad taste, it's not positive, and it doesn't help anything involving race relations. But with that said, I have some problems with this campaign.

First, I realize "minorities" in the US deal with this problem more than anyone else, but there is some political incorrectness with this whole execution. First of all, there are no white people...No I don't mean Americans, I mean, how many drunken kilt wearing Irish Leprechauns do you see every Halloween? How many big-boobed german girls in lederhosen do you see? How many beret wearing frenchmen with pencil mustaches are walking around? The point is, there are other negative costumes that reflect poorly on any number of "cultures" and the fact that they didn't include them, presumably becaus they are white, defeats the entire purpose of the campaign. In other words, making fun of a culture is OK if it's majority is white. Do I personally care? No, I think most "political correctness" is completely overblown and actually calls more attention to the problem than the solution, but for a campaign to oppose these specific examples and leave out some very prominent others hurts the legitimacy in my opinion.

Secondly, especially with the two posters shown above, I think the campaign is making the costumes more culturally offensive than the costumes themselves. Does a middle-eastern student really identify with the terrorists that share a common homeland? Is the middle eastern culture really that of a guy wearing a bomb? Are all japanese people represented by a person wearing a geisha costume? Do all japanese people feel that a geisha is a symbol of their culture? If so, should I, as a white american, take offense if someone dresses as a radical evangelical? I would hope not...my culture has nothing to do with radical religion and I don't identify with it just as I would hope any person would be able to do the same with their culture.

Look...its halloween, not a political statement. Is it in bad taste? yes...but that doesn't mean its a deliberate attack on your culture. I personally would never wear a costume like the ones they picture, but I would also never assume that any of those people were purposefully offending anyone or projecting their costume into symbolizing an entire culture. Almost all halloween costumes are a butchering of some type of cliche or stereotype and to single out a few as "racially motivated" while forgetting others is incomplete at the least, and hypocritical at the worst. All I'm saying is that if you agree with this movement, support its cause, and promote it's ideas, we better not see you walking around as a southern pregnant hick, a drunk german beer-lady or a kilt wearing Irishmen...and if you do...well...you might want to take a look at the definition of "hypocrite" before you yell at the geisha walking down state street.

If anything, these posters should say "this is NOT my culture, it's a costume. And thinking they are the same is not OK."