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A racist Corn Pops box? Kellogg’s says it’s sorry (another liberal guilt trip)
MarketWatch ^ | 10/25/17 | Chris Perez

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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To: z3n

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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41 posted on 10/26/2017 12:26:58 PM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: 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.
42 posted on 10/26/2017 12:28:21 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

What’s wrong with being a janitor?


43 posted on 10/26/2017 12:29:33 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

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”.


44 posted on 10/26/2017 1:00:03 PM PDT by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches, and get with what's real.)
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To: JimRed

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


45 posted on 10/26/2017 1:11:14 PM PDT by carton253 (Jesus is everything.)
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To: Grampa Dave

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!.........;)


46 posted on 10/26/2017 1:20:16 PM PDT by Dawgreg (Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

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.


47 posted on 10/26/2017 2:12:40 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

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

They’re LIP-SMACKIN GOOD!


48 posted on 10/26/2017 2:19:24 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The "news" networks and papers are bitter, dangerous enemies of the American people.)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

::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?


49 posted on 10/26/2017 4:12:23 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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