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‘Afro Sponges’ Spark Fury – Are They Politically Correct?
iwidk ^ | April 27th, 2012 | Mike Finniello

Posted on 04/27/2012 11:02:55 AM PDT by yank in the UK

British makers Paladone have styled a line of cleaning products after carricatures of Dianna Ross and other black soul singers much to the chagrin of campaigners who feel the products are racially offensive. It is the hair of the cleaning products that acts as a brillo-pad that have civil rights groups furious.

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TOPICS: Humor; Miscellaneous; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: afro; novelty; pc; sponge
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This is better then the Allah bobble heads! I've got to get some of these before they are outlawed, and the maker is jailed.
1 posted on 04/27/2012 11:03:01 AM PDT by yank in the UK
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To: yank in the UK

The SOOOOOOUUUULLL plate!

2 posted on 04/27/2012 11:06:12 AM PDT by freedumb2003 ('RETRO' Abortions = performed on 84th trimester individuals who think killing babies is a "right.")
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It appears that the darker your skin is, the thinner it is.

if they can't take a joke, f' em
3 posted on 04/27/2012 11:06:20 AM PDT by jrg
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To: yank in the UK

Afro cleaning products...How a bout a Jessie Jackson Douche Bag.


4 posted on 04/27/2012 11:06:42 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: yank in the UK

Remember the Obama Chia Pet?


5 posted on 04/27/2012 11:07:23 AM PDT by JaguarXKE
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To: yank in the UK

Remember the Obama Chia Pet?


6 posted on 04/27/2012 11:07:34 AM PDT by JaguarXKE
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To: yank in the UK

http://www.paladone.com

7 posted on 04/27/2012 11:08:35 AM PDT by SuzyQue
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I couldn't care less how “racially sensitive” they are...they're just plain silly,regardless of the race/gender/ethnicity/sexual orientation of the characters.
8 posted on 04/27/2012 11:08:51 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Unlike Mrs Obama,I've Been Proud Of This Country My *Entire* Life!)
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To: freedumb2003

How about a Moochelle toilet brush?


9 posted on 04/27/2012 11:08:51 AM PDT by JaguarXKE
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

HAHA!” A Jesse Jackson comments like this make me wish that FR had a like button


10 posted on 04/27/2012 11:09:19 AM PDT by yank in the UK ( A liberal mocking Christianity. I asked "why don't you mock Islam?" he replied "Muslims are violent)
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before they are outlawed, and the maker is jailed.

A sad but true statement.

What happened to the 'sticks and stones may break my bones' era I grew up in?

11 posted on 04/27/2012 11:12:37 AM PDT by MamaTexan (I am a ~Person~ as created by the Law of Nature, not a 'person' as created by the laws of Man)
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To: JaguarXKE

Like


12 posted on 04/27/2012 11:14:06 AM PDT by LoneRangerMassachusetts (The meek shall not inherit the Earth)
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To: freedumb2003

LOL

[these are goin’ down the SOOOOOOOUL DRAIN!]


13 posted on 04/27/2012 11:17:52 AM PDT by Salamander (Hey blood brother, you're one of our own. You're as sharp as a razor and as hard as a stone.)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

That’s the funniest line I’ve read in a long time!!


14 posted on 04/27/2012 11:18:09 AM PDT by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches and get with what's real.)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Too redundant.


15 posted on 04/27/2012 11:18:41 AM PDT by Salamander (Hey blood brother, you're one of our own. You're as sharp as a razor and as hard as a stone.)
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“It appears that the darker your skin is, the thinner it is”

The issue was raised by the soap dodging white chumps over at UAF. This probably offended more idiot white liberals then it did black people.


16 posted on 04/27/2012 11:20:25 AM PDT by yank in the UK ( A liberal mocking Christianity. I asked "why don't you mock Islam?" he replied "Muslims are violent)
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To: yank in the UK
Ya gotta fake it.


17 posted on 04/27/2012 11:20:54 AM PDT by Salamander (Hey blood brother, you're one of our own. You're as sharp as a razor and as hard as a stone.)
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Wht do you call the students in Fairbanks ‘soap dodging white chumps’?


18 posted on 04/27/2012 11:24:30 AM PDT by null and void (Day 1193 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made Frank, they're cornered...])
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To: JaguarXKE
WOW....this MOOSe-chelle stuff just has to stop.

Here is the worst lady

and here is a moose

it should be blatently obvious, that, of the two, the moose is the more attractive, and would resent being compared to the first wookie.
19 posted on 04/27/2012 11:25:59 AM PDT by jrg
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They are making more fun of the ‘70’s than they are of Eric Holder’s people.


20 posted on 04/27/2012 11:27:20 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the sociopath.)
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