10 Easy Costumes for Black People Who Aren’t Really Into Halloween Like That but Still Want to Have Fun

Requirements: A “full beard with no mustache” mask. Patchouli-marinated dashiki over some joggers and Polo boots. A white blow-up doll (your date). Absolutely, positively, no lotion.

Requirements: Chinos and Sperry docksiders (if male) or whatever the fuck is in Stacey Dash’s closet (if female). Shirts, slacks and dresses limited to four colors: red, white, blue and khaki. An ear-to-ear grin whenever a white person is within a 25-block radius. A lobotomy.

Requirements: At least seven horny white friends too busy fucking each other to notice when you’re getting the shit murdered out of you. An ax sticking out of your head. Really, really, really, really big eyes.

Requirements: No facial hair (if male) and just a really awkward hairdo (if female). A Pre-Paid Legal Services pamphlet. A to-go plate already made and wrapped in foil before the food has even been served.

Requirements: Nothing, really. Just hang out with a white person all night, and have him or her refer to and possibly even point to you when reminding everyone that he or she’s not racist.

Requirements: A do-rag, plaits or a Jheri curl underneath the do-rag, a long-sleeved flannel shirt with only the top button buttoned, a pair of Dickies, some Locs sunglasses indoors and whatever else Ice Cube would have rocked in 1992.

Requirements: A single tear, like Denzel in Glory. A ninja star made out of the weak-ass extra potato wedges they tried to give you instead of chicken. A shank made out of the weak-ass extra green beans they tried to give you instead of chicken.

Requirements: A Kobe jersey. An attaché case full of bricks. A “Ball Is Life” tattoo on your right eyelid. No friends.

Requirements: Every sweater-vest ever made, all piled on top of your chest, like a sweater-vest turducken. Sweater-vest bukkake. Generous Bigen.

Requirements: Just wear a mask of the whitest white woman possible. Like, find a Gwyneth Paltrow mask and wear that. Then wear a name tag with the blackest name possible. Like, you got your name from a “Blackest Name Possible” generator (e.g., Mutombo Swahili Achebe Kwanzaa Jenkins-Jackson). A book deal.