Target Under Fire For Using White Model In 'Annie' Clothing Ads

Huffington Post ^ | 12/31/14 | Alexander C. Kaufman

[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.

[SamAdams76]

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.

[DoughtyOne]

Good grief, that too...

[mylife]

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

[who knows what evil?]

Annie is white with red hair.

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

[Slyfox]

I am part Slavic. That means "slave."

Where the hell are my reparations?

[willywill]

“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.

[miserare]

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

[EEGator]

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

[The Duke]

“Anniqua”???

[rwa265]

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.

[IronJack]

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

[MeganC]

BTW, can someone pronounce that name for me?

I believe it's pronounced, "Ignorance".

[Know et al]

BTW, can someone pronounce that name for me?

wah liss

Sorry, couldn't help myself.

[Shimmer1]

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

[R. Scott]

As I remember it Annie was white.

[MeganC]

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.

[tomkat]

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 >

[EEGator]

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

[Don Corleone]

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

[RightFighter]

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: