NAACP Attacks Hallmark Graduation Card as 'Racist' (deduction, pay, considered)

[aveojohn]

Originally Posted by Chatteress

I personally think that the

but sometimes you have to pick your battles and this particular one isn't worth fighting.

It might be a lousy card, but how is it in poor taste?

[Indentured Servant]

Originally Posted by nvxplorer

The only qualification that counts is the intent. There was no racist intent to the greeting card. If you see racism, that's on you. Tough. Get a grip. Get a job. Be somebody.

I did not see racism in the intent or effect. However...after it was noted by the NAACP...i can see how some would and did. I will also say that most things that blacks see as racist....I usually don't.

[nvxplorer]

Here's one to make your blood boil, Indentured Servant.

The box of Crayolas used to have a pinkish-beige color called "fleshtone." Doesn't that make you want to go postal?

[nvxplorer]

Originally Posted by Indentured Servant

I did not see racism in the intent or effect. However...after it was noted by the NAACP...i can see how some would and did. I will also say that most things that blacks see as racist....I usually don't.

I see. So your anger should be directed at the NAACP, no?

[aveojohn]

Originally Posted by Indentured Servant

I am 45 years old. I was born when racial segregation, as law, was alive and well. I exist currently in a nation where white folks like you feel supreme enough to tell black people what is right and wrong...with us and for us....as if we cannot and have not figured that out for ourselves.

And some of you haven't so far!

[aveojohn]

Originally Posted by Indentured Servant

And what makes white people so gifted that you feel that you have it all figured out? Ahhh...hence the definition of racism. The assumption of your racial superiority. That is why you feel qualified to know more about our lives our experiences and problems our relationship to the past, what we inherited....than we do.

Massa...you sho nuff smart...lol

And what makes you so damned self rightous?

[the mean fish]

Originally Posted by aveojohn

And what makes you so damned self rightous?

He's black, he doesn't have to answer to you.

[JBMallory]

Originally Posted by the mean fish

He's black, he doesn't have to answer to you.

this, at least that's what he believes.

[jfkIII]

Originally Posted by nvxplorer

From now on, black holes will be referred to as African American holes, and dark matter is called African American matter.

And White Christmas...will henceforth be known as Caucasian Kwanza.

[jfkIII]

Originally Posted by nvxplorer

Here's one to make your blood boil, Indentured Servant.

The box of Crayolas used to have a pinkish-beige color called "fleshtone." Doesn't that make you want to go postal?

Weird...my box has a blackish-brownish crayon and it's called "African American"

(but it's a cheap Crayola knock-off I got at the dollar store!)