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Target’s ‘Annie’ ads stir up controversy
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Posted on 12/31/2014 5:41:05 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia

Target is fighting back after being criticized for “Annie”-themed clothing ads showing a white model as Annie, as opposed to an African-American model, or Quvenzhané Wallis, the actress who plays the character in the holiday remake.

LaSean Rinique told Yahoo she launched a Change.org petition after her daughter, an “Annie” fan, noticed that a girl in the ads sporting Annie’s signature red dress and locket was white, unlike Wallis, who appears alongside Jamie Foxx in the movie remake.

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To: bgill

Years ago, I used to find my youngest boy some decent school clothes there, but not any more. When they first opened around here, you could find some decent clothes and household goods. Then they remodeled the store and the quality dropped dramatically. Now, I feel like I’m in Walmart, only with a different color scheme. Couldn’t even find tighty-whities for Mr Kitty there last week.

I still go there for paper goods, and their knock off American Girl stuff for my granddaughter, but that’s it.


81 posted on 12/31/2014 8:36:27 AM PST by KosmicKitty (Liberals claim to want to hear other views, but then are shocked to discover there are other views)
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To: DariusBane

Quvenzhané....wasn’t that the winged snake god the Mayans used to sacrifice to by ripping people’s hearts out?


82 posted on 12/31/2014 8:52:52 AM PST by tophat9000 (An Eye for an Eye, a Word for a Word...nothing more)
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To: Jane Long

Vin Diesel..is black.. i think.. when he want to be...


83 posted on 12/31/2014 8:57:15 AM PST by tophat9000 (An Eye for an Eye, a Word for a Word...nothing more)
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To: BunnySlippers

Transgender Annie, you know he’s next.


84 posted on 12/31/2014 9:00:14 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

No, Jim Carrey as Martin Luther King.....”alllll righty then!”


85 posted on 12/31/2014 9:00:23 AM PST by tophat9000 (An Eye for an Eye, a Word for a Word...nothing more)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Perhaps the heirs of Harold Gray, the creator of Little Orphan Annie, can sue them for substituting the little white-skinned, red-hair girl with a dark-skinned girl? This is totally absurd, but what isn’t these days?


86 posted on 12/31/2014 9:05:13 AM PST by EDINVA
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To: Jeff Chandler

“LaSean. I suppose that means “the Sean”.”

Only if “Sean” is a female! “La” is feminine, “Le” is masculine.


87 posted on 12/31/2014 9:09:46 AM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

“How ‘bout James Franco as Dr. Martin Luther King?”

Or Mick Jagger as James Brown?


88 posted on 12/31/2014 9:17:58 AM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: NTHockey

“...the comic strip Little Orphan Annie. She is white (and drawn with no eyes)”

MAD Magazine’s sendup, “Little Orphan Melvin” had the character being threatened by a criminal,

“Shaddup or I’ll paint dots on yer eyeballs!”

;^)


89 posted on 12/31/2014 9:22:56 AM PST by elcid1970 ("I am a radicalized infidel.")
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To: peteyd

“She saw the ad and said to me, ‘That’s not what Annie looks like. How come the new black Annie isn’t good enough? Does that mean I’m not good enough?’”

*cough* BS ALERT *cough*


90 posted on 12/31/2014 10:39:44 AM PST by bolobaby
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