A racist Corn Pops box? Kellogg’s says it’s sorry (another liberal guilt trip)

MarketWatch ^ | 10/25/17 | Chris Perez

[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.”

[TLI]

The two mannequins dressed as tourists are pretty “brown” as well.

I have a box of it at home and they are about the same color as the worker.

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[Old Yeller]

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.

The latest example. DirectTV commercial, shows a black couple sitting on the couch watching DirectTV, then it shows a white person paper cutting her tongue, a white guy getting his arm stuck in a vending machine, another white guy laying in poison ivy, and I forget the rest of it right now.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

What’s wrong with being a janitor?

[PhiloBedo]

Just once I’d like to here of a company responding to this kind of complaint with a letter that politely says “get a life”.

[carton253]

Yes...I was wrong. I was thinking of another cereal...

[Dawgreg]

Good! Kellogg is a liberal company!

That’s what I’ve heard too. Sorry Wild Bill Hickock and Jingles......I never liked Corn Pops.......I’d watch your show every Saturday but I was eating something other than those things......yuk!.........;)

[kearnyirish2]

I’m white and I’m offended that is doesn’t show lighter ones working; I live in a state (country, for that matter) where most work is done by white people.

[Lazamataz]

I’m gonna start a cereal company, and we will manufacture a cereal called “N***** Lips”.

They’re LIP-SMACKIN GOOD!

[Thank You Rush]

::Ahmed’s tweet within hours, saying it was sorry and would be replacing the cartoon with something more sensitive.::

Like chopping off heads! How’s that for sensitive?