Dallas Cowboys cheerleader Whitney Isleib is in some hot water for her Lil' Wayne Halloween costume:

Here's what she looks like the other 364 days of the year:

Yeah, that's blackface.  And yeah, she's quite stupid and incredibly insensitive for wearing it, but perhaps even dumber is the fact that either she or a friend (another Cowboys cheerleader) posted the pictures on Facebook.  When are people going to learn that your pictures on social networking sites ONLY lead to bad things?

Making matters worse, another of the pictures allegedly shows one of Isleib's friends in blackface as singer T-Pain.  It doesn't appear that Isleib will get in much trouble with her employer, though, since a Cowboys spokesman said the team will "handle it internally."  Translation: "It's too late in the season to hold auditions, so she'll likely get a slap on the wrist.

I'm not saying that she should be fired for this, but she definitely deserves a stern talking to and probably a suspension.  If athletes, as Charles Barkley famously asserted, are not role models, then certainly cheerleaders aren't either (except for breast implant enthusiasts), but anyone in the public eye needs to hold him or herself to a higher standard of conduct.  Such insensitive posturing casts both Isleib and the Cowboys in an incredibly unfavorable light, and the team should react accordingly.  More signifcantly, in the supposedly post-racial 2009, it's a shame that people (public figures or not) still think costumes like these are funny.