Posted on 02/02/2024 2:49:25 PM PST by Libloather
Retail giant Target recently confirmed it was removing one of its Black History Month products from store shelves after finding out that that product misidentified three civil rights leaders.
After historically savvy users pointed out that Target’s Black History Month magnet book mixed up the three civil rights icons, W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington and Carter G. Woodson, the store confirmed the blunder.
Target noted it was removing the items from shelves and letting the product’s producers know about the mistake.
A TikTok video shared by user Issa Tete on Tuesday pointed out the flaw in the holiday-themed item. She captioned the clip, stating, "Idk who needs to correct it but it needs to be pulled off the shelves nonetheless. Any person could have missed the mistake but it just takes one person to point it out and ask for corrections #blackhistory #blackhistorymonth #blacktiktok."
In the clip, which has since been viewed more than 700,000 times, Tete displayed the magnet book and went through its problems.
The book, titled, "Civil Rights Magnetic Learning Activity" featured a bunch of colorful civil rights themed magnets which included famous faces, dates, and slogans of the era.
After noting that she has background as a history and social studies teacher, Tete said, "I noticed discrepancies like as soon as I opened this. Like I said, these need to be pulled off the shelf."
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I guess they all look alike to the Chinese manufacturers.
“ Target’s Black History Month magnet book mixed up the three civil rights icons”
That’s because they all look alike
Mao be pimpin’
I had to look up Carter Woodson (”creator” of Black History Month). That said - he had some good things to say.
“History shows that it does not matter who is in power or what revolutionary forces take over the government, those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others never obtain any more rights or privileges in the end than they had in the beginning.”
If you are going to virtue signal, do try harder to get it right.
Woodson explained the idea behind the celebration. “It is not so much a Negro History Week as it is a History Week,” he wrote, according to the ASALH. “We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in History. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hatred and religious prejudice.”
What? “Malcolm Luther King X” didn’t exist?
Chia Pets?
I like his explanation. Too bad it’s been corrupted.
When Obama was elected I thought “Well - at least we can put this race stuff behind us”. Instead, he single-handedly set us back another 50 years or more.
And to Xiden.
Exactly what I thought as well. What a disappointment.
I can’t wait for white history month. So exciting!
Oh wait.
ISWYDT
Booker T was a good man
DuBois was a commie.
I have a hard time getting upset with DuBois—he wanted blacks to move back to Africa.
That was Garvey. Dubious and Mlk Jr are my villains. I even prefer Malcom X to Michael King. He saw who the greatest enemy of blacks was.
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