Guess what Costco had to pull from its shelves? This is, incredibly, not a hoax. It happened in August, but I'm just now hearing about it:
Costco's Little Monkey, uh, problem
Thursday October 8, 2009
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Rod Dreher is an editorial columnist for the Dallas Morning News, and author of "Crunchy Cons" (Crown Forum), a nonfiction book about conservatives, most of them religious, whose faith and political convictions sometimes put them at odds with mainstream conservatives. The views expressed in this blog are his own.
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Richard,
Your racism is both astounding and pathetic.
We had a funny situation a while back where an older couple took offense to our calling OUR OWN CHILDREN "kids." The reason? In their time, a "kid" was a goat.
@FdS - goats (kids) were never victims of hundreds of years of oppression - very poor analogy.
The fact of the matter is white oppressors called their slaves monkeys as did racists for many decades after slavery was abolished...I don't think that's in dispute. This black doll in 2009 is named "Lil Monkey"...I don't think that's in dispute. Because this name was used during a very bad time in America, it should be understood that even though black people have been free for 144 years, it's still a sensitive topic for them. Let's name the doll something else and keep making money, that's what this country's all about anyway.
I think the sooner Black people stop calling white people dogs or saying they smell like wet dogs after walking in the rain and white people dealing with thier bizarre monkey fetish,the world would be a better place. Racial hatred sucks. Grow up people.
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