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Comedy gold: The “racist” Hallmark card
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/06/11/comedy-gold-the-racist-hallmark-card/ ^

Posted on 06/11/2010 1:59:31 PM PDT by chessplayer

The bad news? Rather than stand up to this idiocy, Hallmark looked at its bottom line and figured a PR war with the NAACP wasn’t worth it. The card’s been yanked from the market.


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The cards been out for 3 years, but now, all of a sudden, it`s racist! The card talks about black holes, but to the folk with skin of color at the NAACP, it sounds like black hoe`s. Therefore it`s racist. And, of course, Hallmark caves like a house of cards.
1 posted on 06/11/2010 1:59:31 PM PDT by chessplayer
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To: chessplayer

It’s a good thing that Hallmark was not niggardly in their efforts to solve the problem.


2 posted on 06/11/2010 2:03:08 PM PDT by mrs. a (It's a short life but a merry one...)
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I was gonna bring up the guy who resigned (don’t remember the details) because he used the word “niggardly”. LOL
Idiots.


3 posted on 06/11/2010 2:04:05 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: chessplayer

Hearing dialect is NOT “whities” fault!


4 posted on 06/11/2010 2:05:38 PM PDT by G Larry (Democrats expedite the Destruction of America)
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To: chessplayer

Maybe Hallmark should make a card for H-Holes. What’s an H-Hole? It’s an a-hole who speaks the truth. Join the H-Hole Army today!
http://bjaday.com/the-h-hole-army/


5 posted on 06/11/2010 2:05:58 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: chessplayer
All these NAACP people did was expose themselves as some of the stupidest morons on the planet. They think "black hole" is a racial reference. Same kind of idiots who didn't know the meaning and derivation of "niggardly."

The state of public education in America.

BTW, Hoops and Yoyo are really, really funny cards.

6 posted on 06/11/2010 2:06:00 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: chessplayer

Got a friend who runs a Hallmark shop— have to see if he has any of these... Collector’s Item!


7 posted on 06/11/2010 2:07:14 PM PDT by agooga (Struggling every day to be worthy of their sacrifice.)
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To: chessplayer

Is Hoops or Yoyo the racist?


8 posted on 06/11/2010 2:08:03 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement (Obama "acted stupidly.")
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These hos would go anywhere for publicity. Jeez...get a life.....HYHEY


9 posted on 06/11/2010 2:08:15 PM PDT by szweig (HYHEY!! (Have You Had Enough Yet))
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To: chessplayer
Speechless...
10 posted on 06/11/2010 2:08:27 PM PDT by Carling (Remember November)
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To: chessplayer

“And you hear the ‘Rrrrr’ in there which mean (sic)’whores’ and not ‘hole.” The ‘R’ is in there.” LOL. She forgot to add an enphatic “NOT!”


11 posted on 06/11/2010 2:10:55 PM PDT by refreshed
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To: ConservativeStatement

My kids love Hoops and Yoyo.


12 posted on 06/11/2010 2:11:15 PM PDT by netmilsmom (I am inyenzi on the Religion Forum)
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To: colorado tanker

It’s all about IIIII Me Me Me....git over your selves The world does not revolve around you. I am starting a NAFAWP National Association for the Advancement of White People!!!


13 posted on 06/11/2010 2:13:36 PM PDT by GregB (Sarah Palin The Next President Of The United States!!!!)
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To: netmilsmom
I think we need a Congressional investigation into which is the villain. :-)
14 posted on 06/11/2010 2:14:37 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement (Obama "acted stupidly.")
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To: chessplayer

A special meeting about Dallas County traffic tickets turned tense and bizarre this afternoon.

County commissioners were discussing problems with the central collections office that is used to process traffic ticket payments and handle other paperwork normally done by the JP Courts.

Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield, who is white, said it seemed that central collections “has become a black hole” because paperwork reportedly has become lost in the office.

Commissioner John Wiley Price, who is black, interrupted him with a loud “Excuse me!” He then corrected his colleague, saying the office has become a “white hole.”

That prompted Judge Thomas Jones, who is black, to demand an apology from Mayfield for his racially insensitive analogy.

Mayfield shot back that it was a figure of speech and a science term. A black hole, according to Webster’s, is perhaps “the invisible remains of a collapsed star, with an intense gravitational field from which neither light nor matter can escape.”

Other county officials quickly interceded to break it up and get the meeting back on track. TV news cameras were rolling, after all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc1zGRUPztc&feature=related

Commissioner John Wiley Price justifies his reasoning for referring to Mayfield’s “black hole” comment as racist.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-akk3gog34


15 posted on 06/11/2010 2:15:15 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: ilovesarah2012

Happened in Chicago.


16 posted on 06/11/2010 2:16:15 PM PDT by 240B (he is doing everything he said he wouldn't and not doing what he said he would)
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To: colorado tanker
The NAACP just struck another divisive blow to diversity. What people just can't seem to realize is that it is not in the best interest of NAACP, ACLU, or any of the race baiters (Jackson, Sharp, Wright,...etc) for there to be no racial issues. This is their bread and butter. They are really scraping the bottom of the barrel with this complaint trying to keep the rhetoric of racism alive.

Every time something this ridiculous occurs, it makes anyone that these baiters propose to support look ignorant.

I wish African Americans would wake up and see that the Democratic Party and the above groups and individuals probably never; but certainly now do not have their best interests in mind.

17 posted on 06/11/2010 2:16:32 PM PDT by MWestMom (Tread carefully, truth lies here.)
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To: chessplayer

Nappy, just nappy
18 posted on 06/11/2010 2:18:34 PM PDT by MaxMax (Conservatism isn't a party)
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To: chessplayer
Since no one else will say it, I will...

Hey NAA(L)CCCP! Shut the hell up! Your ignorance is showing...


19 posted on 06/11/2010 2:19:12 PM PDT by darkwing104 (Lets get dangerous)
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To: chessplayer

Disney made a racist movie!
20 posted on 06/11/2010 2:19:46 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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