Blak Minstrel SpongeBob at Wal-Mart??
J.P. Morgan
anthrpomorphic sponge.) Boxes of Valentine's Day cards heve been
showing up at stores... with SpongeBob colored black, rather than
yellow, thus making him look like an old minstrel stereotype! Link
with picture:
Brian O'connell
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I smell an upcoming rush on eBay.
Iller
...80% chance It's processed through a chinese sweat-shop
violating child labor laws, bordering on slavery
...and everything's Kosher...
...It looks like a "negro cartoon character"...
WHOAH! STOP THE PRESSES!
What the fuck rabbit hole did we just go down??
Dan Skunk
"Iller" <i...@bbwest.net> wrote in message
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The rabbit hole where any use of the colour black is racist?
Some people just can't handle living without racism and have to delude
themselves into believing it's there--even where it isn't.
mouse
news:kycXb.4473$iVf1...@twister01.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com:
>
> The rabbit hole where any use of the colour black is racist?
>
> Some people just can't handle living without racism and have to delude
> themselves into believing it's there--even where it isn't.
>
>
>
These cards are clearly just a printing error, you can tell by looking at
them thats exactly what happened. It didnt print the yellow layer for
spongebob
but if you think racism is non-existant in this country (U.S.) then youre
either an idiot or just not paying attention
Juan F. Lara
> What the fuck rabbit hole did we just go down??
Maybe Lola's? :-)
- Juan F. Lara
http://bellsouthpwp.net/l/a/lara6281/intro.html
Joe Ekaitis
of China, this wouldn't have happened.
"J.P. Morgan" <fishm...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Iller
"Juan F. Lara" <lj...@ces.clemson.edu> wrote in message news:c0jlpo$pcm$1...@hubcap.clemson.edu...
> In article <c0jedl$gb5$1...@velox.critter.net>, Iller <i...@bbwest.net> wrote:
>
> > What the fuck rabbit hole did we just go down??
>
> Maybe Lola's? :-)
No I don't think so this time, but if you find that
one, I want explicit directions to it! =D
Don Sanders
@twister01.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com>, _@rogers.com says...
It seems ironic that this happens on the same month as Black History
month.
By my experiences, the best measure of the existence of racism is to
be a victim of it. Then again, when confronted with the issue, I
have always been told to grow a thick skin to the matter.
I'm still trying to grow one.
--
Don Sanders.
DishRoom1
Dan Skunk wrote --
>> The rabbit hole where any use of the colour black is racist?
>>
>> Some people just can't handle living without racism and have to delude
>> themselves into believing it's there--even where it isn't.
>>
>>
>>
>
>These cards are clearly just a printing error, you can tell by looking at
>them thats exactly what happened. It didnt print the yellow layer for
>spongebob
>
>but if you think racism is non-existant in this country (U.S.) then youre
>either an idiot or just not paying attention
No one is denying that there may still be some stupid racist whites out there
such as the KKK. I don't like racism against blacks nor against anyone else.
However there are also many whites who are non-racists, thus it bothers me to
no end how some non-whites have this belief that every, not some, every white
man, woman, child and baby are born racist in their genes or something. It's as
stupid and untrue as the "all blacks are lazy, piggin'-out-on-watermelons
n*****s" sterotype.
John Shughart
Don Sanders
JoeEk...@compuserve.com says...
> Well, if they weren't so niggardly and had them printed in the USA instead
> of China, this wouldn't have happened.
Oh my! hehe! wow, that was a hoot! I'm splitting my sides here. Man
that was funny! Snicker! Giggle! Snort!
Oh, wait a minute, was that supposed to be funny?? I don't see a
smiley indicating humor or sarcasm...
Oh wait, duh, I forgot, gotta grow that old thick skin. Ah, there.
Ho, haaaaahhh, now that was funny.
:|
>
> "J.P. Morgan" <fishm...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:5c6a3f88.04021...@posting.google.com...
> > Seriously! (I figure this is on-topic 'cause it deals with an
> > anthrpomorphic sponge.) Boxes of Valentine's Day cards heve been
> > showing up at stores... with SpongeBob colored black, rather than
> > yellow, thus making him look like an old minstrel stereotype! Link
> > with picture:
> >
> > http://www.freep.com/features/living/sponge13_20040213.htm
>
>
>
--
Don Sanders.
Aaron Michael
> Well, if they weren't so niggardly and had them printed in the USA instead
> of China, this wouldn't have happened.
For those playing the home game:
Wanderer
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> These cards are clearly just a printing error, you can tell by looking at
> them thats exactly what happened. It didnt print the yellow layer for
> spongebob
>
<snip>
Actually, if you look closely, you can see the true nature of the error:
The black and yellow screens have been reversed. Thus, the border, which
should be black, is yellow, and the character and background, which should
have a significant yellow component, are rendered as black. The only reason
the eyes have black pupils is because that type of card normally shows the
background in that area.
Yours with an eye for printing,
The ink-novative,
Wanderer
wand...@ticnet.com
"Where am I going? I don't quite know.
What does it matter *where* people go?
Down to the woods where the bluebells grow!
Anywhere! Anywhere! *I* don't know!"
-- a. a. milne
Dan Skunk
"Don Sanders" <noo...@myemail.com> wrote in message
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white people are not so and so"--or whatever.
Other than that, I don't try and bring attention to people's race. If
people aren't going around making point of what race people are, maybe the
issue will disappear faster. :)
Dan Skunk
"Aaron Michael" <don't...@bother.at.all> wrote in message
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Yes, yes. Too much political correctness.
Joe Ekaitis
Twenty bucks says someone will sue the moment he says "parsimonious". Any
takers?
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. . . .
Bill Marcum
<JoeEk...@compuserve.com> wrote:
> Well, if they weren't so niggardly and had them printed in the USA instead
> of China, this wouldn't have happened.
>
of a cartoon character with yellow skin.
--
Stay away from hurricanes for a while.
St. Louis de Ha-Ha
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Brian O'connell
"St. Louis de Ha-Ha" <stloui...@mailinator.com> wrote in message
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> http://search-desc.ebay.com/search/search.dll?query=black+Spongebob+valen
> tine&ht=1&sosortproperty=1&from=R10&sotextsearched=2&BasicSearch=
mouse
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> I knew it.
Wow, Brian! Thats really amazing that you predicted that!
seriously, good job!
...Unfortunatly, you're still a fat fucking slob....sorry
IceCat
> Well, if they weren't so niggardly and had them printed in the USA instead
> of China, this wouldn't have happened.
>
Just about everything that you can buy in a Wal-Mart is made by the
lowest possble bidder, and at this point in time China has the lowest
possible costs,
cheap plentful labor, etc.
Actually Wal-Mart does so much business with China curently it should
really be called "The People's Republic of Wal-Mart".
Later
IceCat