No thoughtful person is naive enough to think it’s OK for a white woman to parade around in a big black afro wig, then slip it off when the mood has shifted. Not in this country.

White JoCo teacher’s Mahomes Afro wig isn’t quite blackface, but it’s a terrible look By Toriano Porter. Updated February 10, 2021 1:01 PM.

The gavel, once a courtroom icon, seems to have gone the way of curly white wigs on judges. Only a handful of local courts report that their judges ever use one, and that use is sporadic and rare.