A California middle-schooler was suspended for allegedly wearing “blackface” to a local football game — but a national civil rights group claims the boy was just wearing eye paint.

Then I apply any of the other colors besides black ... according to your eye shape (it even includes directions on how to do so in the packaging). Face and body painting can get messy.

Veteran Russell Wilson wore the paint for the Pittsburgh Steelers this campaign while retired icon Brady regularly had black under his eyes too ... wearing the black face paint all season ...