That's very racist! WTF?
Posted on 10/26/2017 10:10:38 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
Kellogg’s has apologized for a cereal-box cartoon that featured a bunch of light-colored Corn Pops hanging out in a mall — while a darker-skinned Pop scrubs the floor. Pictures showing the packaging surfaced on social media and prompted the company to respond. “Hey @KelloggsUS why is literally the only brown corn pop on the whole cereal box the janitor?” asked Marvel Comics writer Saladin Ahmed. “[T]his is teaching kids racism.” “Yes [it’s] a tiny thing, but when you see your kid staring at this over breakfast and realize millions of other kids are doing the same ... ” he added in a follow-up Twitter post.. Kellogg’s K, +0.07% responded to Ahmed’s tweet within hours, saying it was sorry and would be replacing the cartoon with something more sensitive. “Kellogg is committed to diversity & inclusion,” the company said. “We did not intend to offend — we apologize. The artwork is updated & will be in stores soon.”
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That's very racist! WTF?
Gone are the days of commercials bragging that "Quisp has Quazy Energy"! (Quake was better anyway. Quisp was a liberal, Quake a conservative.)No kidding. This is almost as tone-deaf stupid as that unintentionally hilarious Dove ad!
The light Pops are hanging around the mall because they’re unemployed, having lost their jobs to the darker ones. The cartoon is actually a celebration of illegal immigration.
I used to wonder how hatreds could exist for hundreds and thousands of years between peoples in the Mideast all the while not noticing that slavery in the US died over 100 years ago but race war continues unabated to this day.
Who’s to say the race card won’t last for hundreds and hundreds of years in this country?
BOL!
The light Pops are hanging around the mall because they’re unemployed, having lost their jobs to the darker ones. The cartoon is actually a celebration of illegal immigration.
[> Years ago this cereal was called Sugar Pops. Why did they change the name to Corn Pops? Did they change the sugar content of Sugar Pops or just want us to think that it isn’t full of sugar?
I’d bet the rent on the latter. Sugar has become a dirty word. ]
Yes, they did the same re-naming with Sugar Smacks and Super Sugar Crisp.....
Hey, Froot Loops ...
Ed
They did the same thing with SUGAR SMACKS... suddenly it became HONEY SMACKS... not sure if they changed the recipe at all...
Kentucky Fried Chicken became KFC because fried became a bad word ....
While we’re on the subject can there be any bigger gay slur than “Froot Loops”?...
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Froot Loops is just a hijacked term, like “gay”. I don’t think it was thought of as a slur in 1963. I could think of many worse slurs than FL, but they would get me banned.
Be thankful they didn’t depict the brown pop as beating up the orange pops, stealing their money and sneakers.
Everything is symbolic with these people. Nothing is just what it is.
The dark guy is the only one who has an honest job. The rest are EBT card carrying mall rats.
Back toward the middle of the 20th century, it was trendy for breakfast cereals to have "sugar" in their names--Sugar Smacks, Sugar Pops, Sugar Frosted Flakes, Rice Honeys, etc.
"Kellogg's Sugar Corn Pops (POW POW)
Sugar Pops are tops!"
When the healthnuts started bitching about sugary cereals they renamed the product.
Fruit Loops were also those little hang-it-up loops on the back of Fruit Of The Loom shirts.
Let me get this straight: Is the left saying that if we hire people of color for certain jobs then we’re racist? But what happens when we only hire white people for those jobs?
Well, Gee, seems to me everyone in that picture is YELLOW, NOT white and the shade of brown for the custodian is common to Hispanic, Spanish, Brazilian, Portuguese, Hawaiian, Pacific islanders, Native American, native Australian, Asian, Mid-eastern, ... pretty much most of the world!
Cry-babies.
When is EVERY company that advertises on television going to stop being racist by depicting white people as the dufus, uninformed losers and black people as the successful, intelligent, well-informed professionals (usually always black doctors) when a commercial involves blacks and whites in it. Theres your racism.
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