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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at huffingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: affirmativeaction; annie; blacks; money; obama; quvenzhanewallis; race; racism; target
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To: rwa265

The original Annie strip doesn’t get the respect it deserves in pop culture or even the comics field. I’ve often wondered if Harold Gray’s conservative views are the reason.

The cover I posted is part of a new series of reprints started a few years ago by a company called IDW. They started with the 20s and are now in the late 40s. Americana at its finest!


81 posted on 12/31/2014 2:01:59 PM PST by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: SoFloFreeper

You have to PRETEND everything with Black people.


82 posted on 12/31/2014 2:04:03 PM PST by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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To: SoFloFreeper

There was a freeper here complaining about my complaints that James Bond is white and should remain white.

Now apparently, that person works at Target.


83 posted on 12/31/2014 2:17:03 PM PST by Organic Panic
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To: Vinnie
A Black Annie? How about a White Kunta Kinte?

That might be appropriate, given that the entire Roots fairy tale is a plagiarized fraud. They should re-shoot it as a comedy, with black and white roles reversed. Hey, you might say this version would really be a documentary, since whites are working to support a vast population of indigent blacks who alternate between doing nothing and engaging in property and violent crime.

84 posted on 12/31/2014 2:33:10 PM PST by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Bullish

Yeah, but they do not know what “moronic clowns” means. They like who and what they are.

I saw a black thug on camera during some riot in CA. He’d been peeled off a victim he was slugging with a brick, but he said into the camera: “Don’t matter what I do. I’m a good person.” Self-esteem at it’s finest.


85 posted on 12/31/2014 2:33:52 PM PST by Veto! (Opinions freely expressed as advice)
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To: CrazyIvan

And I think George clooney should play buraq Obama when they do an epic about the 2d black president


86 posted on 12/31/2014 2:37:16 PM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: Organic Panic
There was a freeper here complaining about my complaints that James Bond is white and should remain white.

Personally, I couldn't care less. I've always viewed the series as a vehicle for outlandish stunts and gadgets, as well as panoramic shots of exotic locales. As long as the actor plays it straight, with white British rather than Caribbean or African mannerisms, the franchise will probably do well internationally. If they fool with it and make it ethnic, they will lose a bundle, due to negative audience reaction and high production costs. The person who thought it up will be looking for a new job. Think Bond movie budget and Tyler Perry box office receipts.

87 posted on 12/31/2014 2:41:48 PM PST by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

You didn’t even have to ask. I have noticed since o took office more and more color on the TV and in movies and I am not the only one who has made these observation.


88 posted on 12/31/2014 2:44:18 PM PST by funfan
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To: SoFloFreeper

yet it’s perfectly fine for blacks to portray whites and white roles, especially when it’s obvious tokenism


89 posted on 12/31/2014 2:45:05 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat (Garner, Martin x 2 & Brown . . . all hoisted by their own petards)
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To: BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj; GOPsterinMA; Clintonfatigued
I hope everyone that signed that petition gets crabs.

(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!

Damn straight.

90 posted on 12/31/2014 2:46:43 PM PST by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: bgill

They’ve never let her commie ties be talked about yet, so you’re right.


91 posted on 12/31/2014 2:50:24 PM PST by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: SoFloFreeper

I’m offended that the knuckleheads who did the movie put a black girl in the title role, playing a girl who has been white for 85 years.


92 posted on 12/31/2014 2:54:01 PM PST by Chaguito
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To: SoFloFreeper
I say this whole black offense crap has been formulated by the communists as another tool to bludgeon the white race with and keep the white man down! Free whitey!

Hey, I got something the race-baiting poverty pimps can take a big bite of! It's that S sandwich they've been trying to feed us since 0bama was elected...

93 posted on 12/31/2014 3:02:04 PM PST by W. (Bureaucracy kills enterprise, and communism doesen't work. Any OTHER bright ideas, 0bama?)
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To: funfan
I have noticed since o took office more and more color on the TV and in movies and I am not the only one who has made these observation.

And a lot more TV shows filmed in Chicago.

94 posted on 12/31/2014 3:04:22 PM PST by Vinnie
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To: SoFloFreeper

Can we be outraged because the film makers used a black actress to portray Annie, who we all know was originally a white girl, and was always portrayed as a white girl until this politically correct monstrosity was filmed?


95 posted on 12/31/2014 4:08:30 PM PST by Iron Munro (Conservative Epitaph: Don't Cry For Me , You Still Have Two More Years Of Obama)
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To: Rides_A_Red_Horse
Is this like how moslems say if they ever owned a place it’s permanently moslem so if a black person plays a role that role is permanently a role for a black person?

From now on will we always have to have a black president, black first lady, black boyfriend for the president, black Attorney General and black czars?


96 posted on 12/31/2014 4:19:12 PM PST by Iron Munro (Conservative Epitaph: Don't Cry For Me , You Still Have Two More Years Of Obama)
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To: GeronL

There is talk of re-making Perry Mason TV show but with a Black Mason and Della Street. Next we can have a black Daniel Boone and a Black Robin Hood.


97 posted on 12/31/2014 4:29:28 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: SoFloFreeper

but a black james bond is fine.


98 posted on 12/31/2014 4:34:58 PM PST by bravo whiskey (we shouldn't fear the government. the government should fear us.)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

Della would be renamed Dayzhanaisse Street.


99 posted on 12/31/2014 4:41:52 PM PST by peteyd (A dog may bite you in the ass,but it will never stab you in the back.)
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To: adorno
>> That 1978 movie was made before blacks started feeling empowered <<

It was the "black power" era, and numerous movies were made where classic stories were "updated" and re-imagined with black actors playing the roles. The focus of those films were usually tough black characters triumphing against "the man". The Wiz was the tail end of it, as it had started in 1971. In fact, many people think The Wiz bombing at the box office is what ended the Blaxploitation genre, as it disappeared in the 80s before they revived the idea of remaking white characters as black characters in the late 90s.

I'd say the difference between those black remakes in 1979 and 2014 is the latter were intentionally campy and entertaining. There's very little entertaining in the new "Annie"

100 posted on 12/31/2014 5:25:03 PM PST by BillyBoy (Thanks to RINOs, Illinois has definitely become a "red state" -- we are run by Communists!)
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