Posted on 03/02/2005 8:03:00 PM PST by Huntress
I had the same complaint about the movie "Barbershop"
Neither was 'The Cosby Show'
But since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, people of color are disappearing from images that the media project. It's as if we don't exist at a time when the nation is becoming more ethnically and racially diverse.
This sounds like a load of Hillary.
The only people I know that pay attention to color are those of color. I don't get it. Aren't we all supposed to be color blind- isn't that the goal?
I guess thats the end of reruns of The Jeffersons.
I know the book, I gave it to my father.
Thin skinned lefty alert is warrented.
How about "undercover brother"? Fighting a conspiracy to turn all black people into virtual honkeys?
I think he doth protest too much.
(sarcasm on)Perhaps they should make a black person tv channel so black people can be as racist as they like. (Sarcasm off)
Good Lord No. Where did you ever get that rediculous idea? Only white heterosexual males are supposed to be colorblind. Everyone else is supposed to wield their race like a bludgeon to extract things they haven't earned and don't appreciate. You are obviously an unenlightened knuckle-dragger.
Now there's equal-opportunity fatherlessness, hope he's happy.
As a "person of color" I say, Get over it! Not one of those pictures would cause me not to think of my father.
This guy needs to get a grip, as he is clearly looking for something to upset him. There is clearly no harm or offense intended from this book. Besides, must EVERYTHING reflect 'diversity' these days for it to have any value, or for it to avoid the apparently grave crime of offending someone?
This brings to mind that episode of South Park where the boys were sent to a diversity education camp where respect for diversity was enforced at gun point.
Well, other then the fact that the war on poverty destroyed the black family and made black fathers superfluous, it sounds like someone's trying to tell people what they can publish.
If the dude who's whining wants a book with men and lesbians of color depicted as fathers, let him get his own publishing deal.
Are. It should be "are". Plural, stupid. *grumble*
On a serious side... It always amazes me what people get away with when they play the "racism" card. It's insane. And if you challenge them once they've cried racism, guess what that makes you? Racist! You add gasoline to their fire. It's stupid, not to mention pathetic.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry. It's getting to be where the sarcasm tag is left off.
I think "none ... is" works fine. "None" is the same as "not one," ain't it? :)
It would not surprise me if Hallmark has other versions for blacks, hispanics, asians, etc. They tend to sell things like that. One Hallmark store downtown has very large selections of greeting cards, etc specifically for blacks and nothing specifically for whites because the demographics in the inner city can support that customer base.
"As a "person of color" I say, Get over it! Not one of those pictures would cause me not to think of my father."
Bravo. And I suppose this professional victim would expect me to be "upset" if this sweet little book contained only black, hispanic, eskimo, martian, or any combination thereof? Please.
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