Julianne Hough , the actress who has starred in such musically inspired films as Burlesque, Rock of Ages and Footloose, raised a cacophony on the internet this week, when she dressed in black face to go to a Halloween party as Crazy Eyes From the Netflix Show Orange is the New Black.

The actress might have gained the most attention from the stunt, she has since apologized for, but is not the only one to blur racial lines with her choice of costuming. The Utah Jazz basketball team tweeted a picture Sunday night of a young man dressed as their forward Karl Malone, who went by the nickname "the mail-man" during his career with the team. The team later took down the picture and apologized.

Though much more outrage has sparked since as two men had their picture circulate on Facebook with them dressed as Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman from the year's most famous courtroom case . This went viral when posted on the infamous Smoking Gun website . The picture was seen as being particularly in bad taste as one man wore a grey blood splattered hoodie while sporting the black face in question and the other man wore a "Neighborhood Watch," shirts while forming a gun with his fingers. This gesture was directed towards the black faced man's head.

The outrage from the Trayvon Martin costumed escalated to the point of where bloggers found the identities of the men in the picture and posted their phone numbers, arrest records and past activity on social media. It resulted in the black faced trick or treaters making their Facebook accounts private and taking the picture down from their from their profiles.

Black Face was made famous back in 1904 by Al Jolson, who was once called the world's greatest entertainer and artists such as Bob Dylan and David Bowie have claimed to have inspired them. His big hit in the day was "Mammy". The Jewish Jolson saw this as an expression of shared oppression. The Indians have yet to launch a formal protect against Johnny Depp's role as Tonto the Indian in this years flop the Lone Ranger. Despite the movies failing at the box office , the Spirit Halloween stores are encouraging children of all races to dress as Depp's character.

So it appears race is still a fine line of taboo,even after Robert DowneyJr's blockbuster black face performance in Tropic Thunder.