Crayola multicultural crayons

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[aomagrat]

The Crayola 16 count Multicultural Crayons come in an assortment of hues that gives a child a realistic palette to color the people of the world. The 16 different colors (olive green, apricot, black, white, raw sienna, cerulean, sepia, silver, goldenrod, burnt sienna, mahogany, salmon, burnt orange, periwinkle, peach, and tan) are for coloring skin, hair, eyes and smiles. These crayons are recommended for children ages 4 and older

[aomagrat]

The constant pandering to the left is getting ridiculous.

[farmfriend]

They'll have a box in every Kindergarten.

[Vidalia]

Wouldn't it just be easier to dump every crayon out of a package into a double boiler, melt them down, and create one "Global" crayola...?

[Arkinsaw]

I wouldn't have a problem with this if the box was just listed as "fleshtones" or something. That would be sort of cool. But the "Multicultural" logo is something else again since it brings in a whole host of political conotations. They could easily have made this into a decent product useful to kids but instead have gone for the ridiculous.

[Revolting cat!]

All of which tell me that the Crayons we all used as children and all the ones until this moment are R-A-C-I-S-T-!

And, it's just about time, I tell ya! I never understood why the teachers in our multicultural school had to write on the blackboard with white chalk and not for instance with black or brown.

[nravoter]

Wouldn't it just be easier to dump every crayon out of a package into a double boiler, melt them down, and create one "Global" crayola...?

LOL!

All your race are belong to us!

[anniegetyourgun]

It really does make those who do these kinds of things look so foolish.

Now watch some kid draw a multicultural picture and sing, "red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in His sight, Jesus loves the little children of the world." And then that kid will be suspended for speaking of the Christian deity and exhibiting insensitivity. Not such a far-fetched scenario, is it?

[SouthernFreebird]

I just want to know what race the 'olive green' is for... Area 51,....LOL

[Tickle Me Pank]

Binney & Smith dropped the 'flesh' colored crayon years ago. It's now in the Crayola Hall of Fame (I sh!t you not, pilgrim :)

[RAT Patrol]

Well, on the positive side, I can remember coloring people a ridiculous peach color when I was a kid. I think skin-tone crayons are a good idea. Still, this is marketing political correctness to a ridiculous level.

[RAT Patrol]

Now watch some kid draw a multicultural picture and sing, "red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in His sight, Jesus loves the little children of the world." And then that kid will be suspended for speaking of the Christian deity and exhibiting insensitivity. Not such a far-fetched scenario, is it? You know, that is an excellent point.

[Cold Heat]

It is not getting ridiculous! It has been ridiculous!

It all started when they banned the flesh color!

[Minutes]

They could easily have made this into a decent product useful to kids but instead have gone for the ridiculous.

Exactly. It comes across as just another opportunity to shove multiculturalism down people's throats.

[nravoter]

I just want to know what race the 'olive green' is for... Area 51,....LOL

That's a pretty good question. Maybe so the kids can make all the different races assimilate into the US Army?

Nah, probably not!

[FITZ]

I wouldn't have a problem with this if the box was just listed as "fleshtones" or something. That would be sort of cool. But the "Multicultural" logo is something else again since it brings in a whole host of political conotations.

I agree. Same with bandaids----I think they should have different flesh tones just like women's make up has but it doesn't have to be politically correct.

[aomagrat]

I just want to know what race the 'olive green' is for...

Your olive green crayons are no match for our verdant pigmentation. You are DOOMED!!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!

[RAT Patrol]

It's for the eyes I guess. I thought the same thing about the blue color, but then I read it again and the crayons are for "skin, hair, eyes, and smiles." A nice enough thought if they didn't bring the "multicultural" word into it with all it's political baggage.

[Archie Bunker on steroids]

I just want to know what race the 'olive green' is for

the AIDS victim

[IronJack]

I kid you not, my son had to have these for school one year. I bought him regular crayons -- not even the Crayola brand -- and dared the fascists to make trouble.

They didn't. Their conceit is not matched by their courage.

[SouthernFreebird]

LOL!