'TODAY AT THE OFFICE WE HANGED A BLACK MAN': Russians holding a mock lynching party shows racism has no borders

KING: Russians throw party with mock lynching of white man in blackface - They claimed they couldn't find a real Negro to "lynch"

It's easy to forget that bigotry is not an exclusive American product, but unfortunately flourishes all over the world.

On Tuesday, at a Russian government research and development office in St. Petersburg, employees held what they claimed was an American costume party of some sort. One employee, Anastasia Storozhilova, a 23-year-old engineer who works there, thought what they did was so awesome that she tweeted a photograph from the party saying, "Today at the office we hanged a black man."

After a firestorm erupted online, she first deleted the tweet, then her Twitter account, then her Facebook account.

The damage is already done.

Speaking to Russian press, Storozhilova tried to explain the racist stunt away by claiming they were reenacting old American movies, but that excuse doesn't really pass muster.

From her tweet and the overwhelming glee seen on all of their faces, this clearly was fun for them. They had a blast, but that's what's powerful about social media. In the bubble these folk lived in, they saw nothing wrong with what they did — so much so that they wanted the world to know about it.

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