Posted on 08/28/2002 10:57:49 AM PDT by RCW2001
Target issues nationwide alert to recall white power clothing
Wednesday, August 28, 2002
©2002 Associated Press
URL: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2002/08/28/state1330EDT0096.DTL
(08-28) 10:30 PDT DAVIS, Calif. (AP) --
Clothing with white supremacist symbols at nationwide Target stores was recalled after a Davis resident realized the symbols are a code among neo-Nazis for "Heil Hitler" and brought it to store officials' attention.
Target Stores of Minneapolis issued a call Tuesday to all 1,100 stores nationwide to stop selling the clothing printed with "eight eight" and "88," which stands for "Heil Hitler" because H is the eighth letter of the alphabet.
Joseph Rodriguez, a video producer for the University of California, Davis, was shocked when he found the printed symbols on a pair of red shorts at the Elk Grove Target store in June. He had learned the meaning of the white power code from a documentary on racist rock music. The symbols are commonly used among supremacists in graffiti and is a popular tattoo.
Rodriguez bought the shorts and took them to the store manager. But after being told the store just sells what is shipped, he took his complaint to Target's corporate office, where he said he was "blown off."
Then Rodriguez went to the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Ala., which campaigns against racism, tracks racist organizations and runs an educational Web site, www.tolerance.org.
Target officials said they first learned what the symbols meant on Monday when Rodriguez's complaints were put on the center's Web site.
"Nobody knew what it meant," said Carolyn Brookter, director of corporate communications for Target. "We certainly apologize that this was out there. We would not have any white supremacist symbols out selling as merchandise."
Brookter said along with removing the clothing from the stores, Target will conduct a campaign to teach store buyers and advertisers about such symbols. They will also look into how the offending type came to be used on the merchandise.
©2002 Associated Press
Your right, while we are having some fun with this, it is not clear what context the number on the clothing was. However, even if it was meant to mean, "white power" so what? "Black power" is acceptable why not white? Now what is not acceptable is taking either one of those statements and using them as a basis for discrimination. Unless of course it is a muslim advocating the extinction of the infidels then it is considered a religion. Banning words is difficult unless you are on the left.
One wonders whether these are the Target products being recalled. If so, I guess I'd have to agree with them on this one.
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I listen to this guy, Hal Turner. He buys one hour of broadcast time a week. The SPLC is after him.
A leftist would describe him as a neo Nazi. I find him entertaining and somewhat informative, giving news
items that the lamestream media ignores.
Why can't they do what I do when Turner goes off letting his personal prejudices get in the way of reality?
I turn off the radio, or go check out other broadcasts.
Jealousy? People change stations/turn off the radio faster during an SPLC broadcast?
They get off FORCING their opinions on others, IMO.
This is what you call political correctness run amock. I will lay you dollars to donuts that 95+% of the people in the US had no clue that this was even potentially the case.
And if I start hearing some load of cow manure about having the NFL, NHL, NASCAR, NBA, and every other kind of league being pressured to remove the number 88 from the numbers that players can be assigned, I'm just gonna be too through.
Absolutly correct mhking. By the way did you notice your post was number "88". Yikes!
Very true. They force their opinions on others by doing anything possible to quash expression of any opinion other than their own. That is only thing MoMo Dees and SPLC do...they find dissenting thought and call it racist, insensitive, bigotted, etc. He exists as a political force only because Political Correctness has so completely permeated our society.
My VCR is okay, it goes to
The racist microwave however ...
Sorry, couldn't resist.
For years a highway ran between Princeton, NJ and a town with a girl's college about 30 miles north. It was highway 69, and the Princeton guys kept swiping the road signs for their dorm rooms. It is now highway 31.
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