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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Love hearing this news. We stopped shopping at Target when the company leapfrogged last August by filing an amicus brief with SCOTUS endorsing and celebrating the perversion of marriage.
Now, for all the company's liberal hack sucking up....it gets pilloried for being racist.
I feel no sorrow, and hope Target loses business. Swimming with the scorpions always gets you stung.
I love it when leftists get caught in their own tar pits. BTW, can someone pronounce that name for me?
I read an article about this at the Daily Mail, and virtually all people who commented (who were from UK, etc.) thought the black mother was crazy. Interesting that even the extreme left-wingers who read HuffPo also are pretty much clued in that this is a non-issue. Looks like everyone is fed up with “black rage.”
people are ridiculous these days
Yep, corporations should stay away from taking sides in stuff because they will likely end up not having any friends
I am no fan of Target, but I think it is time to tell these stupid progs to go hump themselves. If they had used a black model in the ads they would have been called out for trying to pander to the blacks. They also wouldn’t have sold many of the outfits as the spending power of the blacks isn’t enough to make much profit.
They tried to sell to the whites as that is where the cash is. And the progs still have their panties in a bunch. Just tell them to hump off and don’t apologize at all costs.
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.
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?
I quit several yrs. ago when they ran Salvation Army kettles off at Christmas.
Honestly I never liked the store anyway.
A Black Annie?
How about a White Kunta Kinte?
The professionally “outraged” strike again.
Some frogs never learn. This might deter Target from doing ANY advertising using Annie Themes, since the new actress herself was not available at Target prices. With libs, once you show weakness, they come back for more, and ,more till nothing remains for anybody.
I demand to play Rosa Parks in a movie!
people are ridiculous these days
Is the racist guy Walter Sobchak from The Big Lebowski?
TAR - JAY................it French, Like JFinK.............
Once hijacked, the roll is to remain hijacked huh?
LMAO
Race was no issue when White Annies were replaced by a Black one. Now the Black one is replaced in an add, and all hell breaks loose.
This is hilarious.
and what of the whIte MANNEQUIN ..or is that GIRLEQUINS??
oh that IS SEXISS of me I know...
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