Chicago Shady Dealer

What Do You Mean You Didn’t Like My Indian Chief Costume?

By Dean Ellison
Oct. 13, 2016

Ok, you Millennials make NO sense. After the whole kerfuffle with the letter this summer, the College Advisors told me I had to improve my approval rating with undergraduates. They needed to love me like they once did. So, I decided to dress up for Halloween! A whimsical and non-controversial holiday ! But what was I going to be? I thought about it forever. A ballerina? An octopus? Maybe even a vampire! But then it hit me. Millennials love two things: one,1. dDiversity and two2., fFeathers. I knew in that moment what I was going to be: an Indian Chief! So, I went to Party City and got everything I needed:. aA headdress, a beaded necklace, and a leather shirt. I looked like the Land ‘O’ Lakes Butter Man. Triggger warning: my costume was the best! I walked on to campus that day fully confident. This is the Dean Ellison everyone knows and loves! I was ready to smoke a peace pipe with those Social Justice Warriors. Suddenly, students started coming up to me and telling me I was ‘culturally appropriating.’ Me? A cultural appropriator? I retreated to the safe space of my office, in tears. How could this be? Well, students, I just wanted to let you know that I’ll be taking a two week vacation after this incident and I won’t be checking my email! And I just want to let you know that my friends at on the Board of Trustees thought it was a great costume!