TEEN GETS ORDERED TO LEAVE SCHOOL AFTER HE SHOWED UP IN BLACKFACE LOOKING LIKE AUNT JEMIMA!

A blackface Halloween costume has left one Long Island teen with a lot of egg on his face.
Commack High School senior Dean Jeziorkowski was ordered to leave school Friday after he turned up dressed as the black Aunt Jemima character.

Jeziorkowski, 17, refused to back down over the brouhaha, and his family refused to comment yesterday.

Fellow student Danny Cuevas, 16, who was out trick-or-treating in Jeziorkowski's neighborhood, defended the teen.

"I don't think it's that racist," he said. "At one point in time, that might have been seen as racist but not now."

Jeziorskowski told pals he has dressed as a woman for Halloween every year since the third grade. The teen donned a bandanna and wig as part of his Aunt Jemima getup. He darted in and out of classrooms toting a syrup bottle, asking, "You want some pancakes?"

School officials reportedly asked Jeziorkowski to wash off the makeup, then sent him home when he refused.

"It's funny as hell," said Manny Cruz, 16, who attends the same school. "He's known for being an athlete, a funny dude, pretty chill. He's not known for being a racist or anything."

The Aunt Jemima character, owned by the Quaker Oats Co., has been the advertising icon for pancakes and syrup since the late 1890s. Many blacks consider the term "Aunt Jemima" to be derogatory, with connotations of subservience to whites.

Tracey Edwards, an NAACP official, said school officials acted appropriately in disciplining Jeziorkowski. Even though the teen might not have understood the historic significance of the character, Edwards said he should have backed down when told about the sensitivity.