One Detroit woman has turned a typical Halloween yard display on its head by swapping out witches and ghouls for the real-life horrors of racism in America.
Larethia Haddon posed six dummies in the yard of her Detroit, Michigan, home which all depict some form of social injustice including, the Flint water crisis and some of the recent police shootings across the nation.
Among the dummies, there’s a man with a gunshot wound holding the sign “My hands were up,” a mother and child suffering from domestic abuse, and a man holding a cup of dirty water with the sign: “Flint water, nobody deserves this!”
Haddon said she collaborated with her grandchildren on the display, with each grandchild coming up with an idea for a dummy.
“This year my grandchildren said, ‘Grandma, we’re not afraid of the boogeyman anymore, we’re afraid of what’s going on in the world right now,’” Haddon told local news station M Live (in the video above).
According to Haddon, the display has garnered plenty of attention from people in the neighborhood, with crowds gathering around her yard throughout the day and cars slowing to get a better look.
She added that she and her grandchildren are not trying to scare people, but, rather, they want to do something “positive” through the Halloween display.
“I want to get people to be a little more focused on the issues, what’s going on in the world,” Haddon said. “We need to stick together more. We need to come together. And if we don’t, this scene in my yard is going to be [a] reality every single day.”
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