Via NY Post:

Bed Bath & Beyond has stopped selling black jack-o’-lanterns amid complaints that they are another form of blackface.

The home goods store stopped selling the product following outrage over a Halloween display using the pumpkins in Nyack, New York.

Local law firm Feerick Nugent MacCartney had placed two of the all-black pumpkins adorned with white eyes, nose and mouth outside its office on a bale of hay, but took them down within 48 hours after community members complained, News 12 reported.

Wilbur Aldridge, the regional director at the NAACP, said in a statement that the pumpkin design “shows an extreme lack of sensitivity.”

“By now I would believe everyone [would] know that anything in Black face is offensive… Equally as offensive is that a retail store would have such an item in [their] inventory for general purchase,” the statement read, according to News 12.

The partners at Feerick Nugent MacCartney said they did not mean to offend anyone by displaying the jack-o’-lanterns on the front porch of the law office.