Posted on 10/25/2017 3:20:33 PM PDT by equaviator
Kellogg’s will redo the art on Corn Pops cereal boxes after a customer complained about the racially insensitive imagery on Twitter.
The controversial cereal boxes show cartoon Corn Pops playing at a mall. The characters shop, skateboard, play arcade games and take selfies in the seemingly light-hearted shopping center scene.
But science fiction and fantasy writer Saladin Ahmed was eating breakfast with his son when he noticed the lone brown corn pop character in the scene was a janitor waxing the mall’s floors.
“hey @KelloggsUS why is literally the only brown corn pop on the whole cereal box the janitor? this is teaching kids racism,” he asked Kellogg’s on Twitter.
Marvel Comics writer Saladin Ahmed took to Twitter to call out Kellogg's for its racially insensitive Corn Pops cereal box art.
He followed up the tweet with another that read, “yes its a tiny thing, but when you see your kid staring at this over breakfast and realize millions of other kids are doing the same...”
Kellogg's responded the same day, letting Ahmed know that the art had been redesigned, and would begin appearing on shelves soon.
Kellogg's said it has redesigned its Corn Pops cereal box art after Saladin Ahmed called out the company for "teaching kids racism."
“Kellogg is committed to diversity & inclusion. We did not intend to offend — we apologize. The artwork is updated & will be in stores soon,” the company said on Twitter.
Ahmed was satisfied with the company’s reply.
Maybe he should feed the kid a healthy breakfast, or a generic or organic “Corn Pops” type cereal. Then the racist wouldn’t have to imagine racism on his cereal box.
At least he had a JOB!
Good one, Sirius.
Besides the brown pop is not sweeping the floors, he’s polishing the pops. That’s a high skill, manufacturing job the brow pop is filling!
One problem, however: the Asia brown pop was supposed to be put on the cover of Wheaties with all the black pops doing sports.
Another shakedown by the PC police running the culture in this country.
Thank God for President Trump.
Corn Pops however you slice are vile to me. Maybe when one is a kid some like it but not me ever.
What’s next, Kellogg’s Racist Bran? Porn Flakes?...Or how ‘bout a bowl of Nice Lispies (right next to the Fruit Loops)...
Only white hetero males are supposed to do such tasks, when they aren’t locked up in the gulag.
“why is literally the only brown corn pop...”
More unnecessary use of the word “literally”.
Lol..these companies doing anything because of morons on Twitter complaining is funny. How much ambition to maintain a boycott and purchasing power does Kelloggs think these perpetually outraged kids who live at home have?
So black people are NOT also janitors?
So black people cant be portrayed as doing work?
President’s office at a competitor (General Mills) used to have a series of “Betty Crocker’s” portraits on the wall. (That’s one of their big brands).
As you walked past the pictures, you began to notice that they were changing. Ever so slightly, but definitely changing.......
explanation: the firm tried to keep their mascot’s racial composition in line with the marketplace.... so that Betty was morphing or mutating towards Mexican and Chinese features more and more. I don’t know what Watson or Crick would say, but I think Betty was already something like 18 percent Chinese and 15 percent Mexican then
Janitors aren’t even janitors anymore.
-so they fire the janitor because he is mot a yellow corn pop but a brown corn pop. that is not fair for the janitor. how will he earn enough money for his bowl of milk... some racist kid does not want the poor brown sugar pop to work.
I think many of them know deep down that doing this will be the only accomplishment they will ever be able to look back upon in their miserable lives.
With their worthless PC degrees and low IQs they will never accomplish anything worthy so this garbage is all they will have to remember and brag about.
How long ago did this guy and his husband adopt this kid?
Rice Krinkles were awesome...when I was a kid, I could add a quart of milk to a fresh box and go nuts.
All Kellogg has to do is change the ink color to the original artwork and all is good. However, I think we should go after the auto industry. Those brown and black cars are racist and we need to sue them all to extinction. After that, we need to sue God. God caused this all to happen. All of it.
Lawyers, man your battle stations.
Don’t know.
Is that fruit cake even married?
and does he have kids?
just wondering.
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