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Are we being too hard on Julianne Hough? Julianne Hough Black Face costume has led to a great deal of controversy. The Actress is getting major backlash as she wore a black face costume on Halloween to resemble Crazy Eyes, a character played by actress Uzo Aduba from the hit Netflix series "Orange is the New Black." But are we being too sensitive about it?

People are very touchy about Black Face as it has a negative connotation towards black people. But Julianne Hough Did NOT mean to portray black people in that way and she may be getting heat that she doesn't deserve unlike the black face Treyvon Martin costume another white person wore.

Julianne was dressing like Crazy Eyes because all of her friends were dressing like their favorite character from 'Orange Is The New Black.' Julianne meant it as a compliment toward the show and the black actress, not as an insult.

Julianne's brother, Derek Hough who attended the Halloween party with Julianne over the weekend, spoke out in her defense saying "She's my little baby sister and she's the sweetest thing ever.  She is just beyond beside herself. She's so apologetic. She's so so sorry."

There are two ways to look at the situation.

1) Julianne Hough did not mean to be racial and America is too sensitive. We have a black president for Gods sake. When black people keep bringing up reasons to be insulted, it only hurts them. So black people can dress as white people such as Cinderella, but white people can't dress like black people. Of course not. Every little girl dresses as their favorite Disney character, and almost all of them are white. Black people are constantly saying 'nigger' but white people can't?! It has to work both ways.

2) Blackface represents a combination of put-down, fear and morbid fascination with black culture.  Blackface minstrelsy first became nationally popular in the late 1820s when white male performers portrayed African-American characters using burnt cork to blacken their skin. Wearing tattered clothes, the performances mocked black behavior, playing racial stereotypes for laughs.

The caricatures took such a firm hold on the American imagination that audiences expected any person with dark skin, no matter what their background, to conform to one or more of the stereotypes.

Black face meant something negative in the 1900's. On Broadway, in silent movies, cartoons and on the radio blackface was depicted as a way to laugh at black people.

Is it time for black people to get eoover the use of Black face?