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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: SoFloFreeper
If we elect a white president in 2016, look for it to be said that we have become a racist nation.

You know it's going to happen.

61 posted on 12/31/2014 1:09:38 PM PST by SamAdams76
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To: MrB

Good grief, that too...


62 posted on 12/31/2014 1:10:04 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The question is Jeb Bush. The answer is NO!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Stupid of Target, but please people! just knock it off!


63 posted on 12/31/2014 1:12:37 PM PST by mylife
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To: bgill
Annie is white with red hair.

Don't be messin' with no gingers...

64 posted on 12/31/2014 1:13:56 PM PST by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
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To: Bon mots
I am part Slavic. That means "slave."

Where the hell are my reparations?

65 posted on 12/31/2014 1:15:25 PM PST by Slyfox (To put on the mind of George Washington read ALL of Deuteronomy 28, then read his Farewell Address)
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To: usconservative

“Looks like everyone is fed up with “black rage.”
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 & wait. “

you got that right. everyones afraid of Obama. from people who make tv commercials to businesses. when he’s out of office, it will be just like you said, even liberals who now feel stifled will get in on it.


66 posted on 12/31/2014 1:20:34 PM PST by willywill
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To: bgill

When are they going to make Sandy into a vicious drug dealer’s pitbull?


67 posted on 12/31/2014 1:20:55 PM PST by miserare (2015--The Year We Win!)
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To: Vendome

I’ve been inspired, I’m putting it on now.


68 posted on 12/31/2014 1:26:37 PM PST by EEGator
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To: mothball

“Anniqua”???


69 posted on 12/31/2014 1:27:38 PM PST by The Duke
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To: LostInBayport

My Mom had the complete set of the Little Orphan Annie books, which I loved reading as a child. After Mom died, my siblings were not interested in the books, so I now have them.


70 posted on 12/31/2014 1:29:28 PM PST by rwa265
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To: SoFloFreeper

Yeah, cuz everyone knows the original comic strip Little Orphan was black.


71 posted on 12/31/2014 1:30:26 PM PST by IronJack
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To: armydawg505
BTW, can someone pronounce that name for me?

I believe it's pronounced, "Ignorance".

72 posted on 12/31/2014 1:31:51 PM PST by MeganC (It took Democrats four hours to deport Elian Gonzalez)
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To: armydawg505
BTW, can someone pronounce that name for me?

wah liss

Sorry, couldn't help myself.

73 posted on 12/31/2014 1:37:53 PM PST by Know et al (Keep on Freepin'!!!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Oh outrage.....if they only knew how little I cared!!!


74 posted on 12/31/2014 1:38:31 PM PST by Shimmer1 (Happy New Year!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

As I remember it Annie was white.


75 posted on 12/31/2014 1:38:37 PM PST by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
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To: mothball; Vinnie

Even better yet, have some pasty-faced English boy like Robert Pattinson play Kunta Kinte or Shaka Zulu. And then we can have the all-white African tribesmen in the movie playing Bach and using proper table manners.

Granted, that last part with the proper table manners might not be believable.


76 posted on 12/31/2014 1:39:09 PM PST by MeganC (It took Democrats four hours to deport Elian Gonzalez)
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To: SoFloFreeper
Quvenzhané

LMAO !

From Wiki:

Wallis was born in Houma, Louisiana to Qulyndreia (née Jackson), a teacher, and Venjie Wallis, Sr., a truck driver.
She has a sister, Qunyquekya, and two brothers, Vejon and Venjie Jr.

< facepalm3 >

77 posted on 12/31/2014 1:45:51 PM PST by tomkat
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To: Vendome

“Smokey, this is not ‘Nam...this is bowling, there are rules.”


78 posted on 12/31/2014 1:51:07 PM PST by EEGator
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To: MtnMan101

It must be so so depressing to be a leftist. Nothing is ever as it should be.


79 posted on 12/31/2014 1:54:33 PM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: SoFloFreeper
This is so stupid. There are TWO ads on display in the stores. I went to Target to check it out because a Facebook contact was upset about this. Here's the first:

and the 2nd:


80 posted on 12/31/2014 2:01:35 PM PST by RightFighter (It was all for nothing.)
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