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Yeah I don't get it either.could 500 of you explain it to me again? preferably using the word slave in there somewhere. and could you explain where the cotton fits in? with the slaves? coz I don't get it. please?
reply Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 11/16/2007 - 18:08.OK..."Wrong on so many levels" Is the most overused term in the english language. In most instances (this one being a great example) it's wrong on ONE level. And btw...it might be wrong, but all you fuckers laughed and you know it. I did.
reply Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 10/04/2007 - 03:19.Should have used a bucket of KFC. Or a watermelon.
reply Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 20:58.It was an accident
However....
There is a small amount of people it should piss off because they have regressed instead of progressed. In other words, stop whining and do something (positive) if you don't like where you are in life. Regardless of color - I'm sick of hearing people complain and whine about how poor they are and than spend over $100 on things they don't really need.
reply Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 19:44.a lot of bigger issues regarding racism in our country, do we really want to chose this as one of our battles? I mean really, do you believe someone purposefully set this up? And if they did, consider them to be small minded and ignorant.
Should we boycott all cotton products because our ancestors were enslaved to harvest this crop so many years ago?
If we cry wolf at every perceived slight made towards our race, no one will take an honest threat seriously.
reply Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 19:02.this is perfect, but i think the funniest part is how many people are talking about blacks picking cotton as if they actually believe the whole "Blacks were slaves" urban legend.
jeez, you people need to grow up and read more.
reply Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 17:45.I hope you've received negative feedback from this comment:
reply Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 20:19."as if they actually believe the whole "Blacks were slaves" urban legend."
Because for someone to say that means they never paid attention in history class...
It doesn't look like that display was meant to hold bags of cotton balls. The bags don't fit next to each other, and there are no price tags on the ends of the product hooks like EVERY other item in a Walgreens has.
reply Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 17:20.Perhaps Walgreens had nothing to do with it?
Looks to me like someone set up a mean "joke" and took a photo of it.
if there were such a thing as white history month and someone put the sign on top of a box of crackers i would not be offended... i'm just sayin.
reply Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 17:06.so its easier for them to pick it now
reply Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 16:51.if there was a such thing as white history month and someone put the sign on top of a box of crackers, i would not be offended... i'm just sayin.
reply Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 17:10.thats because white people are not a minority in the us.
reply Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 17:55.A racial insult is a racial insult - the difference is that whites being called cracker know that if they pay no attention to it, then they can move on and spend their time dealing with issues that are actually important, versus creating a big scene and disrupting everything everytime they hear the N word - racism has a huge impact, but the major portion of that impact is in how it is perceived.
Why do so many racists use the N Word? Because they know exactly how their targets will react - they are extremely predictable. If you want to see this word vanish from our vocabulary, just learn to ignore it and stop having a full drawn out hissy fit everytime you encounter it.
Let me sum it up - they (racists) use the N Word because of the spectacular results it produces. Stop being a party to those results, and they will stop using it - that's it - doesn't get any simpler than this..
reply Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 20:00.are a minority in the US and I can't wait until the day there is no such thing as pure white or black or mexican because all the races have mixed so much that you would have to hate yourself if you hated a person's color.
reply Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 19:45.hey my name is lucky and i go to an all native school theres like two of tree white people and im white/mexican. i go to this school called wellpinit and am starting a club that is against racism,criticism and all that bias shit and i would love to tell you i agree w/ ur statement. email me at angel_ice7@yahoo.com
reply Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 10/11/2007 - 15:18.A racial group gets singled out for it's own special "awareness month" but is too emotionally delicate to cope with a sign put up in their honor placed next to a widely used retail product?
The institutionalized victims have won.
reply Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 16:27.How about the Jumbo link to elephants?
reply Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 16:42.why use "on so many levels"? It's wrong, that's all.
reply Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 16:23.... it's only wrong on ONE level.
reply Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 16:33.Come on, man. Cotton. Cotton!
reply Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 16:11.They're COTTON balls - as in black slaves were forced to pick cotton.
reply Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 15:45.Ugh.
I imagine myself as that employee placing the 'black history month' sign above the cotton balls. What comes to mind for me is:
A. I think it's a callous, offensive, ironic mistake, being that blacks were slaves and forced to pick cotton,
B. it is such a glaring mistake it's actually funny, esp since topical racism died in the 80s, to be replaced by class and culture ISMs.
C. that my manager is completely oblivious to this glaring offense, being he/she is simply an agent of a faceless corporation whose mindset regarding the sign is to appeal to the black female consumers of the adjacent cosmetics.
D. I'm being paid minimum wage or slightly higher but not nearly enough to care OR to fight a stupid decision made by a thoughtless walgreens/corporation and
E. Corollary to that, I'm a level 1 lesser, minor grunt-worker 'associate', so what would walgreens care what I think anyway, *even if my suggestions enhance their bottom-line*? So the end result: the sign stays.
Black people who see this and are offended may not come back. walgreens would lose money, the opposite of their intent. People post this and others see this on the internet and think it's funny/sad. I write a long comment about it.
-mchrisneglia
reply Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 18:03."Wrong on so many levels"
What does that even mean? What levels is this picture wrong on? Is it right on some levels?
Can I get a list of all the available levels, so when I see a picture, I can tell if it's wrong on "so many" levels or just a couple?
reply Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 16:20.Level 10: ROTFLMAO (rollingon the floor laughing my ass off) kind of funny
reply Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 19:48.Level 9: LOL thats funny .... but it's wrong...but it's funny
Level 8: Funny but wrong
Level 7: {giggle giggle giggle} That's not right!
Are you a professional merchandiser and upset with the direction the cotton balls are facing? Is it a Feng Shui issue?
OR, are you a contributing member of the PC police and trying to get a rise out of guilt-ridden liberals?
reply Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 15:44.I love how your smartass response illustrates your knowledge gap. You make me worry about the future. Actually, what is more worrisome, is that you are not the only person who responded this way.
reply Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 15:56.Ok, so how is this wrong?
jumbo cotton balls?
or maybe the small sign?
wrong glyphs around the text?
reply Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 15:29.I hope you're being sarcastic.
I'll give you a hint.
Deals slaves, and cotton.
reply Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 16:04.Slaves worked cotton plantations.
reply Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 15:56.http://pages.towson.edu/oali/Cotton.jpg
reply Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 15:51.Many black slaves in the US were used to pick cotton before they were emancipated.
reply Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 15:50.um... cotton? alluding to the picking of.
reply Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 15:50.Dude. The South + Cotton + ????? = Profit.
What do you think the ????? was?
reply Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 15:50.COTTON
reply Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 15:49.picked cotton...
reply Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 15:48.Uh, most of the black slaves in America were brought specifically to work on cotton plantations. "Cotton-picker" is still considered a racial slur.
reply Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 15:46.It's the jumbo cotton balls.
Cotton was one of the biggest crops produced by slavery.
reply Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 15:46.Prior to the abolition of slavery, a great many slaves were used to pick cotton on large plantations for their 'owners'. So, cotton balls on a black history month display is not really something most black people would probably like to celebrate about their history..
reply Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 15:46.Cotton balls.
Cotton.
Slavery.
Get it?
reply Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 15:45.see above
reply Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 15:45...
reply Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 15:45.What was the primary crop that the original slaves in the US picked?
Why would you place a sample of that crop for sale in a "black history month" display?
reply Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 15:41.Many (most?) black slaves in the American south were forced to pick cotton on plantations.
reply Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 15:38.i don't get it?
can someone please explain it again using the same words?
reply Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 18:54.this time stay awake and away from sniffing glue and smoking pot!
reply Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 19:49.