The worst part of Target’s decision to market and sell a racially offensive Halloween costume this year is that it came after Black people across the country boycotted the retail giant.

For months last year, many customers stopped shopping at Target to protest the store’s decision to abandon its inclusive policies in the wake of the Trump administration’s crackdown on diversity.

It doesn’t look like they’ve learned their lesson.

The store pulled a children’s Halloween costume from its shelves Monday after widespread social media backlash over a garment that critics said evoked painful memories of racist minstrel caricatures.

Critics say the costume looked like caricatures from Jim Crow-era minstrel shows that embedded stereotypes into popular culture and encouraged discrimination, segregation and racial violence.

The “Kids’ Glows Under Blacklight Circus Clown Halloween costume” has been deleted from the........

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