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Target Under Fire For Using White Model In 'Annie' Clothing Ads
Huffington Post ^ | 12/31/14 | Alexander C. Kaufman

Posted on 12/31/2014 12:12:00 PM PST by SoFloFreeper

Target has stirred outrage with an “Annie”-themed ad campaign featuring a white model in place of the black actress who stars in the latest film version of the rags-to-riches story.

An online petition calling for the big-box retailer to remove the ads and apologize to "Annie" star Quvenzhané Wallis had accrued more than 10,000 signatures by Wednesday morning. The petition launched on Monday.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: affirmativeaction; annie; blacks; money; obama; quvenzhanewallis; race; racism; target
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To: DoughtyOne

Good observation - where was the outrage when Daddy Warbucks was replaced by Pimp Daddy?


21 posted on 12/31/2014 12:31:03 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: armydawg505

“Hey You”


22 posted on 12/31/2014 12:31:13 PM PST by Kozak ("It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal" Henry Kissinger)
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To: usconservative
It's going to build and build for the next two years until it comes crashing down into a crescendo of blow-back once Obama's out of office.

Watch all those black actors, especially those in commercials, become unemployed.

23 posted on 12/31/2014 12:31:15 PM PST by Oatka (This is America. Assimilate or evaporate.)
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To: SoFloFreeper; fieldmarshaldj; Impy; AuH2ORepublican
>> An online petition calling for the big-box retailer to remove the ads and apologize to "Annie" star Quvenzhané Wallis had accrued more than 10,000 signatures by Wednesday morning. The petition launched on Monday. <<

Certainly. As soon as Columbia Pictures, Will Gluck, and Will Smith remove the movie from theaters and apologize to the estate of Harold Gray for casting "Annie" star Quvenzhané Wallis to play a character that was always written as a caucasian redhead.

(And while we're at it, the writers of the original 1977 stage musical that the movie is "based on" should apologize for making FDR into a heroic character when the original comics always despised him and promoted free market capitalism and anti-new deal policies!)

24 posted on 12/31/2014 12:31:48 PM PST by BillyBoy (Thanks to RINOs, Illinois has definitely become a "red state" -- we are run by Communists!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

these people would have preferred maybe that the classic theme name would have been UPDATED to ARNIE???

“ARNIE the Transgendered Urchin....”

that would work...


25 posted on 12/31/2014 12:34:25 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: SoFloFreeper

In their ads, and in photos throughout their stores, Target uses black models way out of proportion to their share of the population. Look next time you happen to go to a Target, and you’ll see. They’ve gone out of their way to pander to blacks, but they use a white model this time and they get slammed for it. Serves them right, I say.


26 posted on 12/31/2014 12:34:31 PM PST by Nea Wood
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To: GeronL

Boycott the Afirmative Action Annie! Don’t watch the movie, don’t but the products, don’t see anything that studio makes!


27 posted on 12/31/2014 12:36:00 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: LostInBayport

Just imagine if they cast a White guy to play Jackie Robinson in the movie 42. Or what if, when they filmed the movie Selma they had Rosie O’ Donnell dressed in drag playing MLK?


28 posted on 12/31/2014 12:36:16 PM PST by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

I’m waiting for a movie about our current pResident with Pee-Wee Herman playing his part.


29 posted on 12/31/2014 12:36:34 PM PST by Mark (Obama Care is now DEMOCRAT CARE)
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To: Vinnie

There were white “bond Servants” in early America—little better than slaves.


30 posted on 12/31/2014 12:37:10 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: armydawg505
BTW, can someone pronounce that name for me?

I think it's "Sade".

31 posted on 12/31/2014 12:37:43 PM PST by TangoLimaSierra (To win the country back, we need to be as mean as the libs say we are.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Apparently Target has changed their video. The one on their website features three girls. One white, one Asian and one black. So if they didn’t change it, what’s all the hubub, bub?


32 posted on 12/31/2014 12:38:13 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Life and death are but temporary states. But Freedom endures forever.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

33 posted on 12/31/2014 12:38:25 PM PST by conservative98
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To: SoFloFreeper

So what.

We’ve got a billion actresses who were white that played this role. One black one and we can’t ever use a white actress for Annie ever again?

This sh1t is getting out of hand. It’s like the entire country is now Jerry Springer.


34 posted on 12/31/2014 12:39:18 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

There was a guy on hallmark’s Home and family who stated not to go see Annie. Only three songs where the same as the original. Everything else is made to be more about rap music. I do not think he made many points with the biracaials and blacks.
target was trying to portray the original Annie, now it is coming to bite them in the backside, because the Blacks feel slighted. Please I am so sick of having to watch my p’s and q’s about anything and everything that could hurt the black’s feelings.

I feel really bad that Daddy Warbucks was represented as a politician whom had to score points as adopting an orphan and become a family to be elected. Nothing like the original Daddy Warbucks who was a Tycoon and had differing opinions with FDR.


35 posted on 12/31/2014 12:40:21 PM PST by hondact200 (Candor dat viribos alas (sincerity gives wings to strength) and Nil desperandum (never despair))
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To: SoFloFreeper

Annie is white with red hair.


36 posted on 12/31/2014 12:40:26 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Vinnie

Would it not have been the boys on the Ponderosa who were selling those slaves?


37 posted on 12/31/2014 12:40:29 PM PST by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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To: Vinnie

“white kunta kinte”

I wouldn’t give them any ideas. they WANT whites to be their slaves.


38 posted on 12/31/2014 12:40:38 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Vinnie

A Black Annie?
How about a White Kunta Kinte?

Lol!! It took everything in me to keep me from spitting my coffee out on my work screen.


39 posted on 12/31/2014 12:41:00 PM PST by mothball
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To: SoFloFreeper

Sounds like grounds for a riot to me....Maybe the fake president will chirp about it.


40 posted on 12/31/2014 12:41:13 PM PST by clintonh8r ( BRILLIANT, WITTY (but incendiary)TAG LINE REMOVED BY MODERATORS.)
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